The back story? The museum was holding an exhibit which involved Japanese culture and they invited people to wear kimonos as a way of getting into the exhibits more. A small group of social justice warriors have been showing up protesting the ‘cultural appropriation’ and calling for ‘decolonizing museums’.
Meanwhile people who think this is just stupid, including Japanese people who would like people to have a better understanding of their culture, have been showing up in kimonos to counter-protest.
Delicious irony: a non-Japanese person lecturing a Japanese person (in a kimono) about cultural appropriation of Japanese culture.
The lunatic brigade:
Actual Japanese women enlighten the SJWs:
Look at all this crap.
The #MFAboston protest, now "#decolonizeourmuseums", has lost any semblance of a goal. pic.twitter.com/mTWIXhRllR
— Best Mom Eva (@mombot) July 23, 2015
Japanese on Twitter laugh their face off at these silly folks: