"American Indian headdresses" banned from major San Francisco festival

Random idiot enjoying “ironic” racism ≠ Django Reinhardt

(What a weird example in any case. Reinhardt was Romani and wasn’t somehow removed from being part of European folk song traditions.)

Nobody’s arguing that cultures don’t influence each other. This thread’s about an example where it’s overwhelmingly done in a disrespectful and oblivious way, for the pleasure of idiots, and to the detriment and annoyance of the culture it’s faking.

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