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I just learned about this and *deep inhale* The Hawaiian shirt and the term “Big Luau” are being appropriated by an armed militia white supremacist movement that codes the coming second Civil War as the “Big Luau.”
The movement is an offshoot of the “Boogaloo” movement, which sees the boogaloo as, “a war against the government or liberals, white supremacists conceive of the boogaloo as a race war or a white revolution.”: https://www.adl.org/blog/the-boogaloo-extremists-new-slang-term-for-a-coming-civil-war">https://www.adl.org/blog/the-...
Note in that previous article this particular image and hand gesture that I fear is also going the way of the 
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Here’s a 4 minute podcast you can listen to that summarizes the boogaloo movement: “Decades later, boogaloo is no longer about music, but about menace - a word coined by black and brown people now used by some who envision a country without them.” https://www.npr.org/2020/01/10/795366630/boogaloo-is-the-new-far-right-slang-for-civil-war">https://www.npr.org/2020/01/1...
ADL already has boogaloo on their radar, so the movement has evolved into Hawaiian shirts and using the phrase “Big Luau” instead. https://nationalfile.com/adl-adds-boogaloo-to-online-extremist-lexicon/">https://nationalfile.com/adl-adds-...
Urbandictionary already has an entry for the Big Luau: “In reference to the words bogaloo and big igloo where libritarian forces will take up arms, and wear hawaiian shirts to defeat a totalitarian government“ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Big%20Luau">https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph...
If you’re really racist and roll with that crowd you can already buy these face masks to protect you while you protest what protects you: “Mele Kalikimaka! Oh wait that’s Christmas… its Big Luau time over here!” https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🥴" title="Woozy face" aria-label="Emoji: Woozy face"> http://basicwhitegirlforgunrights.com/product/teal-big-luau-face-mask/">https://basicwhitegirlforgunrights.com/product/t...
They were at rallies across the nation today to protest shut down measures: https://triad-city-beat.com/armed-boogaloo-activists-converge-on-raleigh-flouting-state-law/">https://triad-city-beat.com/armed-boo...
Growing up as a settler here I always felt disingenuous while wearing aloha attire, so I never did. It’s also an aesthetic that’s been appropriated to the point that you’ll see settlers everywhere upset that the HI shirt was “taken” from them.
But it’s also an aesthetic thats culturally significant to indigenous people. So before becoming upset that this changes your appropriated wardrobe choices, we need to think about how this impacts Native Hawaiians and their movement before google search results do more of this:
Here’s a great twitter thread about the boogaloo movement: https://twitter.com/megansquire0/status/1256609879957082115?s=21">https://twitter.com/megansqui... https://twitter.com/MeganSquire0/status/1256609879957082115">https://twitter.com/MeganSqui...
Connecting this back to COVID: https://twitter.com/megansquire0/status/1256609889612443649?s=21">https://twitter.com/megansqui... https://twitter.com/MeganSquire0/status/1256609889612443649">https://twitter.com/MeganSqui...
