Alas, it's the right religion and the right skin color so at this time we're ruling out that this was anything but the misguided actions of a deeply unwell individual.
My stepmother is in her mid 40s and does exactly the same thing. Also a disgusting looking blanket from her childhood that she even takes with her on holidays. I mean we do stir her up for it (sometimes she "wears" it to sleep like bandages covering her entire head which looks hilarious) but I'd say it's weird in a wholesome way. Most people have some of those little quirks.
I think some people just like to be in touch with their ancestry which isn't suddenly cringe when you're white. But I think for some other people it's genuinely part of their victim complex. Irish people were among the most oppressed white minorities back in the day.
Not only that but also while those changes were mostly received well in the end you can still use a no systemd, x11, MATE distro if you're genuinely unhappy with them
Time, genuine remorse and a reason to believe that it won't happen again. And then it's still not something I'd do lightly but sometimes people do make really stupid mistakes and learn their lesson after so I'm not gonna rule it out entirely.
To me arguing over which fruit belongs in which category is a prime example of people arguing over shadows in Plato's cave. Not that it's a waste of time or anything but sometimes people act like tomatoes won't grow if you call them vegetables. Like at the end of the day it's just humans developing a system to make sense of nature rather than discovering an inherent, pre-existing system.
and might actually not even be real because he's a con man