#RepentingColonizer #IndigenousAllyMastodon
#CulturalAppropriation

https://youtu.be/j_KvbfczDQk

This is why you shouldn't use #sage unless you're Indigenous, it is a direct part of your practice, and you know your source. Using it otherwise is participating in both cultural exploitation and capitalist extraction and exploitation.

If you just want a good smell, use an oil diffuser or air freshener or something, not a stolen sacred plant.

@IronCurtain @jtmoehart7 #IndigenousAllyMastodon :) though there’s been issues raised with the use of the word “ally” itself as it is awkward at best and self-aggrandizing at worst, it’s currently our best substitute. Although #RepentingColonizer could be better?

@KFuentesGeorge Generally, I agree, although I think the #BlackMastodonAlly and #IndigenousAllyMastodon tags need to exist to keep people discussing how to Do Better or learning efforts apart from community discussions, if that makes sense. It's not perfect naming. In a perfect world, it would be a more condemnatory term, but then you run into the more flies with honey or vinegar problem...

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-day-the-native-americans-drove-the-kkk-out-of-town?utm_source=pocket-newtab

#IndigenousAllyMastodon While there's a slight copaganda warning (e.g. because in this rare case, the cops shockingly stood with the Lumbee against the KKK, something you would never see now) it illustrates just how we *can* all act to shut hate out of our communities and lives.

#PSA: If you aren't Black do not post with the blackmastodon hashtag. Instead use #blackmastodonallies

If you aren't Indigenous do not post with the indigenous hashtag, instead use #IndigenousAllyMastodon.

@Resister Also, there needs to be an #IndigenousAllyMastodon tag because apparently the tag used by the community itself is being invaded and flooded.