So basically what I was initially planning on doing was using some of the indigenous groups and bringing them into my setting with their names still attached and portions of their culture changed through the extreme conditions and the passage of time. For reference the groups I am using are Havasupai, Navajo, Hopi, and Apache. As I started working on the Havasupai I began to think about whether me taking some parts of their culture and then changing parts for the setting was a tad offensive. Note that this is something I have done with every other group so far. So instead I began to think about changing the names and only having small references to the original groups but then this got me thinking that I was now just flat out writing them out of the story. Are either of these offensive or am I just overthinking this?
I am a white woman so obviously I don't really have a foot to stand on in this argument, but I always found it pretty gross to see white liberal people bringing this up in discussions about veganism. I would imagine that it must be pretty hurtful for indigenous vegans to see white people weaponizing their heritage to justify violence against animals. Or even for non-vegan indigenous people, to see white people using their culture to serve their own personal interests.
And it is really frustrating to me when people attack veganism for being "racist", because it doesn't even justify white people not being vegan. It feels to me like a misdirection so they don't actually have to think about the morality of their diet... Like using indigenous people as a shield to avoid having to try to justify their choice to harm animals.
I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on this?
As I said, it starts off ok, if not pretty simple. Essentially "youtube debate culture doesn't advance knowledge", which, save for the fact that he probably didn't need 40 minutes and several small skits to say that (and he sort of equates standpoint theory with relativism and rejecting objectivity, which prompts angry Sandra Harding noises from me), is overall fine.
Then he gets to the end and tries to give an abstract concept of debate and why this abstract concept is inherently bad. This gets weird when he tries to claim that Descartes was justifying debate with mind/body dualism and that this is the origin of objectivity... and that the cogito was Descartes way of determining who was really human... and that believing in debate means you reject indigenous knowledge production and are ok with colonialism. It's weird because up until now, he's kept from making things too abstract and stuck with political, economic, and technological factors.
It's shockingly incoherent for how short it is and he seems to base everything on the couple of philosophy courses he had in undergrad that he didn't like.
TL;DR: An abstract, ideal concept of "debate" was created by Descarte to make colonialism, and this is why we have twitch streamers.
Jersey City school board to consider canceling Columbus in favor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Updated 5:11 PM; Today 5:09 PM
By Joshua Rosario | The Jersey Journal
Columbus Day may sail into the sunset of the Jersey City public schools district.
Board Of Education President Mussab Ali told The Jersey Journal Thursday that the board may consider changing the now controversial holiday to Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the schools and on the school calendar.
https://www.nj.com/hudson/2021/05/jersey-city-school-board-to-consider-canceling-columbus-in-favor-of-indigenous-peoples-day.html
As an Indigenous H3 fan I really enjoy the amount of awareness Ethan and Hila bring to a wide variety of issues and topics. One thing I really with Ethan would look a little more into is that of Indigenous peoples issues.
Over the last year he's made a few off-handed comments that really hurt to hear, like for instance in After Dark when he focused on the teacher being crazy rather than the racism, or him saying "when have you ever seen two Native Americans in a room together" on a Frenemies episode. I don't blame him; this is a widely believed stereotype perpetuated in schools that we are a historical people and are almost gone.
This post isn't meant to be a cancel or a call out, just a plea to please look more into issues that involve Indigenous peoples, such as MMIW2SG, a phenomenon that is caused directly by our hyper invisibility.
Love the show and love you all, with peace and love.
*These are not my words. I am not indigenous. But my friend and I watch the podcast regularly and wanted me to post this on their behalf since they don't have a Reddit account.
