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The War On Tiki Bars Our cultural watchdogs are telling us that they re problematic. I ve been to my share of tiki bars in Hawaii and Florida over the years. Their faux-Polynesian kitschiness makes for a fun, escapist atmosphere, but what I ve heard lately indicates that the fun s illicit. That s what the ever-vigilant cultural appropriation police have been saying, anyway. The  New York Times has jumped on the anti-tiki bandwagon with a recent, smug article, Reclaiming The Tiki Bar. They provide an intoxicating escape from the burden of the world, co-writers Sammi Katz and Olivia McGiff tell us while a pandemic s raging, before going on to explain why we should feel guilty ( genre’s history of racial inequity and cultural appropriation ) about seeking out this sort of escape. Among the numerous problems with the article is that it appears to be little more than a rehash of one 

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