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what about the bindi project makes you want to punch the wall? were the irish not oppressed people at some point in time?
She's encouraging people to culturally appropriate the bindi. Like, yeah, it says on her blog she's Indian (but idk if he's Hindu, which is one of the religions where the bindi has religious significance, so she doens't get to speak for Hindu people on that if she's not), and i mean idk, but she seems to think that she speaks for all South Asian people on the matter of the bindi and while she speaks for herself, she definitely doesn't speak for all south asian people
Yes, Irish people were oppressed at one point in history. However, we weren't considered white by other Europeans at that time. Yes, there was an Irish slave trade going on at the same time as the African slave trade. But it's totes not cool that people only talk about our past oppression just to silence poc when talking about our oppression as people of color. HOWEVER, Irish people are no longer oppressed in America today (idk if the Irish people face any sort of xenophobia in England or mainland Europe). My mom's Irish and German and she doesn't worry whether or not the police are pulling her over because she's Irish, not because she did something wrong. She doesn't worry if my brother (who is near-full blooded Irish) will see the inside of a prison cell or the barrel of a cop's gun first because he's Irish. However, my mixed non-white passing Cuban father does.
