Anyone here been to the museum of pop culture in Seattle ?

Yep. Super cool! Highly recommend it

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They have some original Star Trek memorabilia there (like phasers, costumes, etc) that Paul Allen donated

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Great daytime activity. I just did a thread on how they shamed Jimi with their PC word police bullshite. Definitely worth a few hours.

Sign @ Jimi Hendrix Exhibit I saw today in Seattle, submitted for your review
Posted by Lsupimp 7/9/24 at 1:24 am

A really cool exhibit at the Museum of Pop in the Jimi Hendrix room. As you know, Jimi’s album after The Experience was Band of Gypsys and his music had multiple songs with titles and references to Gypsys and so forth. Joni viewed himself as a wanderer, outside of polite society, playing music to survive, never needing a lot to be creative or happy. The word gypsy was how he frequently described himself.

Oh Noooooo! Highly problematic. Alert the Ladies of Our Perpetual Outrage to make a sign to save us from the horrors of Jimi’s insensitivity.

Here, verbatim was the sign on the wall:

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WORDS CAN HURT

In the 1960s, two words became synonymous with the free-spirited, romantic, and sexually liberated feeling of the era - hippie and g*psy, a word that is now understood to be an ethnic slur of the Roma, Sinti, and Traveler people.

Jimi Hendrix frequently used this word before the oppressive context was universally recognized as derogatory and erasive of centuries of systematic persecution, genocide, human rights abuses, and discrimination.

To inform our visitors on the trauma words like this can cause, and recognition that using specific aesthetics devoid of their associated culture is a damaging act of cultural approp-riation, MoPOP is working to acknowledge & create discussions around harmful content within our museum galleries.

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Yes very enjoyable