The Left in America abuses language on a daily basis — “ban bossy”, racialize the term “thug”, the myriad of microagressions, even slapping the “cultural appropriation” label on the movie title Aloha …
Some Native Hawaiians disapprove of the name of a movie filmed and set in Hawaii, saying that titling it “Aloha” is a disrespectful misappropriation of culture and simplifies a word that’s rich with meaning. […]
“If you have a romantic comedy about the military in Hawaii … but a title that says ‘Aloha,’ I can only guess that they’ll bastardize the word,” said Walter Ritte, a Native Hawaiian activist on the island of Molokai. “They’re taking our sacred word … and they’re going to make a lot of money off of it.” […]
The trailer is an example of “typical Hollywood,” where “Hawaii is the verdant background for white fantasies,” said Ty Kawika Tengan, chair of the ethnic studies department at the University of Hawaii’s Manoa campus.
“It’s been so appropriated in so many different ways — made into a commodity, made into a slogan,” he said of the word aloha. “It gets so divorced from important indigenous Hawaiian context. … It’s romanticized, literally, into a romantic comedy.”
During filming in 2013, the movie was untitled. State Film Commissioner Donne Dawson said if she had known the title, she would have advised against it.
All governments or ideologies that trend towards authoritarianism and totalitarianism work to control language as part of controlling the population. When certain subjects are, basically, off-limits or restricted to only special classes, even engaging in private thought or private acts is forbidden and punishable.
The Left’s studied silence on Islamism isn’t so much they agree with Islam’s tenets as having their controlling strategies, and move to total control, in common.
In Malaysia, one of 11 nations President Obama is seeking to bring into his “Trans-Pacific Partnership” free-trade zone with the United States, the government has prohibited a Catholic newspaper from using the word “Allah,” says the U.S. State Department.
“Allah,” the Arabic word for God, was adopted by the Malay language.
In Malaysia, as the New York Times explained in an article last November, the government has gone so far as to restrict its use in the Bible. […]
This January, the Federal Court, Malaysia’s highest tribunal, rejected the Catholic Church’s appeal and upheld the ban on using “Allah” in the Malay-language Catholic newspaper.
Father Lawrence Andrew, the editor of the newspaper, was quoted by Agence France Presse as saying he believed this was just the start of what the Malaysian government would do.
“This is only the beginning,” said Father Andrew. “I wouldn’t be surprised if they come along and say ‘don’t use it (Allah) in your services.'”
In 2013, according to the State Department report, Malaysian authorities also targeted an Evangelical Christian organization for using the word “Allah” on their Facebook page. […]
“In January the Pahang mufti, appointed by the State Islamic Authority, declared that non-Muslims were prohibited from using the word ‘Allah’ and 34 other words associated with Islam,” said the State Department. “He told reporters that non-Muslims were barred from using the words in statements, speeches, publications, or in any broadcast as it could ‘mislead’ and affect the faith of Muslims. He said that doing so would violate the law, which, with a conviction, carries a fine up to RM 5,000 ($1,526) and/or imprisonment up to two years.”
Is it surprising that a majority of Democrats would criminalize so-called “hate speech”?
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
~~ George Orwell
“slogan”, “commodity”, “fantasy”
Quit using our sacred words indigenous person.
Greetings:
I’m almost through with my movie script entitled “Walter, the Native Hawaiian Activist”.
Alohahaha
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. — Benjamin Franklin
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. — Thomas Jefferson
For those that understand, no explanation is necessary. For those that do not, no explanation is possible.
State Film Commissioner Donne Dawson said if she had known the title, she would have advised against it.
Does this mean that the film wouldn’t have been (allowed to be) made, or is she just covering her cushy, taxpayer-funded job against complaints by Native Hawaiian activists named Walter?
Why do States even HAVE a “Film Commissioner”?
So can we turn this on its head and claim electricity, modern medicine, television, etc. as American/European cultural inventions. Subsequently objecting to their “appropriation” by other cultures?
We should prohibit those “activists” (shorthand for “Give me money and I’ll go away”) from using anything found by following the links on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_inventions.
I think Hawaii invented the roast pig, but that’s about it.
heh. Roast pig, no way no how. The Polynesians didn’t arrive to Hawaii until somewhere between 300 — 800 a.d. say the archaeologist types, by which time the Qin had been roasting pig for over a thousand years. Heck, even their earliest forebears probably brought it from Taiwan or somewheres else around there.
Greetings:
“Spam” is one of their sacred words , too
I was going to suggest taking away their spam.
>I was going to suggest taking away their spam.<
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Coupla three things:
There are too many Republicans happy to help the Democrats out on that hate speech thing
It’s too bad Hawaii got a stick up it’s collective ass over this aloha thing, since Diamond Head was an early movie to address racism.
The Catholic Church ought to consider going back to Latin.
Without Europeans, you wouldn’t be able to spell Aloha brah.
Is it too late to un-annex Hawaii?
They can have their “native son” back too.
It’s a dirty job, this commenting, but somebody’s gotta do it.
Greetings:
I think that I’m finally beginning to understand why, in our military, anyone from Hawaii is called “Pineapple”.
>Is it too late to un-annex Hawaii?<
chicoms would luv it. me too. eff "the 'aloha' racists".
nice thing about hawaii is that about 4 nukes takes care of it.
Greetings:
Sorry, but I’m on a roll at this point, so I’m requesting a status update for “Choom”.
“choom” is the state of world these days
>he race to the top of Mount Tantalus pitted the “Choomwagon” against another friend’s Toyota. Obama was in the Toyota. The Choomwagon made it to the top first. When the other car didn’t show up, those in the Choomwagon drove back down to find them. Here’s how Maraniss describes what happened next:
“On the way down, they saw a figure who appeared to be staggering up the road. It was Barry Obama. What was going on? As they drew closer, they noticed that he was laughing so hard he could barely stand up.”
His friend had rolled the car. Fortunately, nobody was hurt. And, amazingly, they avoided trouble by leaving the driver alone to deal with the police by claiming it was just an unfortunate “mishap.”
Maraniss concludes his chapter on Obama’s high school years by looking at a note Obama had written in his high school yearbook in a section reserved for students to give a line or two giving thanks to those who helped along the way.
Obama had written this: “Thanks Tut [his grandmother], Gramps, Choom Gang, and Ray for all the good times.”
Maraniss notes: “Ray was the older guy who hung around the Choom Gang, selling them pot. A hippie drug dealer made his acknowledgements; his mother did not.”
The White House told ABC News that it has no comment.<
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baracky be walking away happy about all his “car wrecks”. he be grifter like clintons.
anyone from Hawaii is called “Pineapple”.
Prickly on the outside, yellow and sour on the inside.
Or just one, if delivered Starfish Prime style.
Did Walter Ritte (that there is a prime example of a “native Hawaiian” name) issue his statement in Hawaiian?
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We really should have done a better job of conquering.
We didn’t conquer. They voted in favor of Statehood on June 27, 1959 by a MASSIVE margin. Out of the roughly 150,000 registered voters, more than 140,000 voted, and the “yes” for statehood movement earned 94.3% (132,773 votes) while the “no” ballots got a paltry 5.7% (7,971 votes).
However, accusations of “vote-rigging” were made almost immediately…
>}The post-totalitarian system touches people at every step, but it does so with its ideological gloves on. This is why life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies: government by bureaucracy is called popular government; the working class is enslaved in the name of the working class; the complete degradation of the individual is presented as his ultimate liberation; depriving people of information is called making it available; the use of power to manipulate is called the public control of power, and the arbitrary abuse of power is called observing the legal code; the repression of culture is called its development; the expansion of imperial influence is presented as support for the oppressed; the lack of free expression becomes the highest form of freedom; farcical elections become the highest form of democracy; banning independent thought becomes the most scientific of world views; military occupation becomes fraternal assistance. Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to persecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.
{10}Individuals need not believe all these mystifications, but they must behave as though they did, or they must at least tolerate them in silence, or get along well with those who work with them. For this reason, however, they must live within a lie. They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system. < havel
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