Aloha.
But you have certainly seen, by now, the video gone viral of a California math teacher whooping it up like a cartoon Indigenous-American. According to reports, “The math teacher was allegedly trying to teach (her students) SOH-CAH-TOA (acronyms for defining sine, cos, and tan angles using the hypotenuse, adjacent and opposite sides) by using the Native American dance as a device. However, the dance was deemed as racist and insensitive by some online.”
This sort of thing is officially unforgivable and the teacher was immediately put on administrative leave while angry mobs gathered at her virtual door.
Cultural appropriation.
A foul modern sin even worse than talking about Jonah Hill’s body.
And so you can understand the shock, dismay, of a surfer who mistakenly received an invitation to join “The Inertia Fam.
His welcome missive read thusly:
Aloha!
Thanks for joining the (party) wave! It’s on!
We’ll keep you in the loop with the latest news, exclusive offers, original films, new courses and monumental gatherings to make sure you’re the first to know about the most important updates in surf and outdoors.
As an official welcome, we wanted to share a few of our favorite features since The Inertia’s birth in 2010.
Since the beginning, we’ve approached the natural world and its devoted culture with curiosity, optimism, and respect, and the following features offer a tasty aperitif to give you a better sense of the fam you just joined.
We firmly believe the oceans, mountains, and outdoors are for everyone – best enjoyed together. We’re glad you’re here. Let’s hoot you into a set wave.
The victim, left reeling, could only respond, “‘Aloha’ – really c*nts?”
Textbook inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices, ideas, language, etc. Taking Hawaiian ideals and affixing them to the palest notions of “surf and outdoors.”
Party waves.
It is unclear, at time of writing, if The Inertia has been placed on administrative leave.
More as the story develops.
I just wasted all that time to find out someone was offended by a non-english word for hello?
Fuck off.
Up next, the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame are all placed on suspension and the team banned from participating in NCAA competition.
What about all Byron Bay hippsters playing the didgeridoo.. how fucked are they.
I cant tell if the writer is sseioys ke bei g ironica about using the term ‘aloha’. Either way, its nothing to do woth that teacher acting like an idiot. Its a atupid comparison
A flash in the …pan?
True dat!(a saying I’ve appropriated from African American vernacular along with blunt, indo, sticky icky, word, peace out and U Can’t Touch This).
That was just a “casual encounter” my friend.
One fact is being overlooked and should actually help the teachers case. At least she was not trying to rap the trig mnemonic devices. That would have been egregious and grounds for immediate suspension of her credential.
So this article was in fact racist. Equating the use of one word to whatever the fuck that video was is a an obvious attempt to make light of that clearly offensive video, whereas yes using aloha in that context is appropriation. But the damage done is vastly different.
All comparing the two does is make the one really bad one look absurd in contrast. When they should be looked at separately and in their own context.
Do better and be better. That video was fucked up and you shouldn’t make light of that.
I mean you only connected the two to fit your brand. How are you want different than that people appropriating aloha? Or that teacher? You’re doing the same thing.
Do you remember your teachers?
Wsl jersey ..strider or garashi?
Ah I see it’s funny because dae cancel culture, right?
BINGO
More proof that the whole concept of “cultural appropriation” has really jumped the shark long ago.
That annoying reporters accent is cultural appropriation , she is butchering English
Kids shouldn’t have phones in class in the first place , fuckwit
Must be a fucktonne of cunts out there at the mo wondering what the fuck they’re going to do with their meaningful Chinese tattoos
Help find Chloe
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Macumba Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
I, myself will support a Jonah, The King of VALS, with his little baby whittie against the sharp and smarties bjj locals Derek’s and Chas!
https://youtu.be/tf83xkRi8q0
I was just reviewing the Quik comp in France trying to gain a feel for which surfers are going to make the CT cut , and noticed that the winner of the mens had a clean board sans any major sponsors graphics ( other than shaper) , i flicked a couple of heats and noticed that Willcox was also riding a clean board , am i missing something ?
I think she took the wrong pill in the morning.