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Jul 4, 12
deluxvivens: dolgematki: This is how Etsy deals with people calling out its featured sellers for cultural appropriation. Clickthrough link for the article and the comment thread, from which multiple comments were deleted while comments were still open and those calling this piece of shit out were repeatedly told go elsewhere to discuss this. Content warning if you do choose to go to the article: Heaps of white women patting each other on the back for having been Indians in their past lives and having 8% Native heritage which somehow makes everything okay and cultures meld and exchange anyway, okay?!?!?!?!?!? In other words, brace yourselves for a load of bullshit. I can not. Etsy isn’t getting any more of my money. What bothers me the most, besides the woman that post is originally about, is how many WOC seem to be cosigning her for her “creativity” and “art.” Seriously? Can we please talk about how “creativity” becomes an excuse for absolutely anything and everything appropriative? Sigh. Is there a good online marketplace that WON’T pull off such wankery?

deluxvivens:

dolgematki:

This is how Etsy deals with people calling out its featured sellers for cultural appropriation. Clickthrough link for the article and the comment thread, from which multiple comments were deleted while comments were still open and those calling this piece of shit out were repeatedly told go elsewhere to discuss this.

Content warning if you do choose to go to the article: Heaps of white women patting each other on the back for having been Indians in their past lives and having 8% Native heritage which somehow makes everything okay and cultures meld and exchange anyway, okay?!?!?!?!?!? In other words, brace yourselves for a load of bullshit.

I can not.

Etsy isn’t getting any more of my money.

What bothers me the most, besides the woman that post is originally about, is how many WOC seem to be cosigning her for her “creativity” and “art.”

Seriously? Can we please talk about how “creativity” becomes an excuse for absolutely anything and everything appropriative?

Sigh.

Is there a good online marketplace that WON’T pull off such wankery?

(via deluxvivens-deactivated20130417)

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  2. fuckeverlasting reblogged this from mygayshoes and added:
    HOLY WHITE PRIVILEGE IN ACTION. OH MY GOODNESS. This is terrifying and appalling and gross. Just gross. Dominant white,...
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  4. peayeahknow reblogged this from marcinhaunts and added:
    “Sometimes, cultural identification can be of the heart, rather than the biology.
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  6. thearcanetheory reblogged this from jhameia and added:
    If there is, lemme know.
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  14. unholyglee reblogged this from jhameia and added:
    …dammit.
  15. spiffykt reblogged this from jhameia and added:
    Urg. This really bothered me when I saw that post, and now I’m even more annoyed that the discussion didn’t even get to...
  16. isumatv said: So where ARE you supposed to call out Etsy sellers? On your own blog? By going into your backyard and shouting at the sky, while defiantly waving your fist? I mean, really.
  17. apihtawikosisan said: I just couldn’t read half of the comments, it made me too sick and too angry. So sick of these fake ass ‘women of the world’ who feel so damn entitled to everything.
  18. captain-sonic said: Etsy admins have a history of being completely useless and gross like this: dailydot.com/busines…
  19. tranzient said: i’m glad they never got any of my money tbh.
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