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1. SilverSpookGames (silverspookgames@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jun-2023 16:10:37 UTC SilverSpookGames

   If you're not Hawaiian, you should not sell Hawaiian shirts. The garments are tied to colonialism and militarization of Hawaii, when Hawaiian language and culture were banned after the US stole our country.
   #IndigenousHistoryMonth

   • SilverSpookGames (silverspookgames@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jun-2023 16:10:27 UTC SilverSpookGames

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     Do not vacation in Hawaii. It hurts us Native Hawaiians more than helps us, and empowers the US genocidal occupation that is actively destroying our land, people, and culture.

   • SilverSpookGames (silverspookgames@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jun-2023 16:10:28 UTC SilverSpookGames

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     Disney corporation should not be selling 'Hawaiian shirts' either, as an American corporation currently displacing us from our land with a $144 million resort and mass-commodifying our culture for profit.

     Walo :mastodon: repeated this.
   • SilverSpookGames (silverspookgames@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jun-2023 16:10:30 UTC SilverSpookGames

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     Support us Native Hawaiians attempting to educate on these topics despite ongoing US genocide by buying us a ko-fi or becoming a Patreon supporter. ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/silverspook
     Patreon: https://patreon.com/neofeud

   • SilverSpookGames (silverspookgames@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jun-2023 16:10:31 UTC SilverSpookGames

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     A thread on my anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist cyberpunk game Neofeud about my life as an impoverished indigenous Hawaiian, social worker and STEM teacher for other poor/homeless, living in slums beneath billionaire mansions.
     https://octodon.social/@silverspookgames/105991409235206008

   • SilverSpookGames (silverspookgames@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jun-2023 16:10:32 UTC SilverSpookGames

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     More on the US ban of Hawaiian language and culture, destruction of our universal healthcare & world's highest literacy rate, overthrowing of our country, imprisoning our leaders & illegal occupation ofHawaii to this day.
     https://octodon.social/@silverspookgames/110260994198428590

   • SilverSpookGames (silverspookgames@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jun-2023 16:10:33 UTC SilverSpookGames

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     There are Native Hawaiian designers who do reclaim the 'Hawaiian Shirt' and intervene in the imperial narrative by producing culturally-informed themes & are worn at struggles against the US occupation including against TMT & military poisoning of our water at Kapukaki (Red Hill)

   • SilverSpookGames (silverspookgames@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jun-2023 16:10:34 UTC SilverSpookGames

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     Even the 'inventor' of the Hawaiian shirt itself admitted, "There was no authentic Hawaiian material in those days so I bought gaudy Japanese kimono material." He designed the shirts, and displayed them in the store window with the sign ‘Hawaiian shirts.’

   • SilverSpookGames (silverspookgames@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jun-2023 16:10:35 UTC SilverSpookGames

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     Similar to 'Hawaiian Pizza', turning the word 'Hawaiian' into nothing but a 'flavor' for US corporations to sell to consumers itself degrades and erases our real culture and history, solidifies the US colonial occupation, & nets them billions.
     https://octodon.social/@silverspookgames/110436361814120126

   • SilverSpookGames (silverspookgames@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jun-2023 16:10:36 UTC SilverSpookGames

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     The aloha shirts were mass-sold to Americans to further a narrative that we Native Hawaiians as a nation were no more. Thus, the American’s capacity to literally wear paradise reified a narrative that Hawaii was theirs for the taking.

   • SilverSpookGames (silverspookgames@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jun-2023 16:10:36 UTC SilverSpookGames

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     Help us Native Hawaiians keep doing more educational and resisting colonial oppression. https://ko-fi.com/silverspook