I'd say a total lack of self-awareness and zero insight into their own beliefs leads to bullshit like this. I suspect the folks who say this sort of thing don't think they're racist or that their statements are racist. Their racism is so deeply ingrained that they think they're just stating True Facts That Everyone…

There is a difference between eating and enjoying a culture's food and wearing culture as a costume. If you don't get it, I can't really help you.

Heh. Thanks!

If I could star this more than once, I would.

I think we white people get up in arms to show that we're sensitive enough to get up in arms, but if THIS is what you spend your days worrying about?

Funny, I don't feel coddled.

If you were a native american, you would have said so.

Denim jeans don't function as cultural iconography/have any import beyond the purely material, unlike the headdress, which is imparted with various symbolic meaning depending on the specific matrix of tribal beliefs. Neither does turquoise jewelry. So your comparisons aren't apt. I will conceded that bitchpunt is…

It's just amazing how great we white people are at deciding what is and is not racist. We've been on an amazingly lucky streak so far too, not one single thing we have ever done qualifies somehow!

Guys, she doesn't see color!!!

It strikes me this is probably the only site anywhere on the Internet running this item where it's safe to read the comments.

The only people who don't get why representation matters are people who have never wanted for it.

Using hateful terms hurts both the person inflicting it, and the person it's inflicted upon, precisely because as you said, it's reductive. No one's painful, racist history wants to be reduced to a pun. It strips the person of their humanity.

But this is your opinion. You can continue to believe what you believe. But…

Well when you focus on all the bad things it does, but...

I find it cute since she's probably not even serious. And I also share her love for Chris Evans (and his back, in/out of Tshirts.)

Because Nostalgia.

Obviously IX was the best.

Lesse...article about Final Fantasy VII...lets pull out the checklist:

Noone in this life when they look at me see my heterosexuality, the first thing they see is my color of skin, then the fact I am a woman. So please excuse me for not accepting the abuse I get from gay Men.

I completely agree with this, my very first serving job was at a gay-friendly diner. As a young black woman it was one of the most disturbing and traumatizing experiences. The racism there was unbelievable, and at that point in my life I didnt expect it to come from the gay community (ppl who are also oppressed). …