Oh
This is so much better than those whiteboards being passed around on predominantly white middle-class college campuses
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I wrote this. The Peach published it.
"The Indian Princess is the female counterpart to The Brave caricature. In the late 19th Century the nostalgic romanticizing of nature, and of the Indians that had once been found in nature, recreated Indians in all of their “natural” glory, as noble savages, mythical icons of America’s wilderness past. This phenomenon allowed Americans to largely forget the ugly consequences of their expansionist past. Additionally, even though the Noble Savage is defended as being a “positive” stereotype, the result is historical amnesia and the dehumanization of real people who still exist. By cementing the Indian as an “other” from the past, it allows modern society to largely ignore the existence and plight of Native Americans today. The Indian Princess caricature is rooted in the legend of Pocahontas, who is most often cast in American popular culture as a supporter of European interests. She is strong, beautiful, and possesses an exotic sexuality that both emphasizes her “otherness,” and yet serves as a forbidden fantasy for the dominating White male. She is Mother Nature, American-style, in all her primitive glory."
— http://www.authentichistory.com/diversity/native/ns2-princess/index.html (via mycultureisnotatrend)
buy a print/shirt here
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Right. I don’t know where to start. Even though it’s “just a cartoon” doesn’t mean that it’s not promoting ridiculously fucked-up stereotypes about hyper-violent Natives.
Looking at this just literally made me sick to my stomach. I can’t give a complete critique because looking at this makes me want to wretch. It’s wrong. It’s racist. It’s definitely not something you should buy a print of, or wear as a shirt. I can’t imagine the visceral reaction I’d have if I encountered this in the real world.
This is disgusting and makes my heart hurt.
Picture hidden for being revolting. Click through to see:
[image: A drawing. A young person in shorts and a tshirt is sprawled, baring their large monster teeth. A person dressed in Native clothes (mocassins and a feather in their hair) stands behind them, with a hand under their chin and a knife to their forehead, scalping them. The background is a smeared red triangle. It is super gross and racist.]
Yes!
“Journalist and political commentator Andrew Bolt has been found guilty of breaching the Racial Discrimination Act over two articles he wrote in 2009.
Bolt was being sued in the Federal Court by nine Aboriginal people including former ATSIC chairman Geoff Clark, academic Professor Larissa Behrendt, activist Pat Eatock, photographer Bindi Cole, author Anita Heiss, health worker Leeanne Enoch, native title expert Graham Atkinson, academic Wayne Atkinson, and lawyer Mark McMillan.
They alleged two articles written by Bolt for his employer, the Herald and Weekly Times, implied light-skinned people who identified as Aboriginal did so for personal gain.
The articles were headlined “It’s so hip to be black” and “White fellas in the black”.
Bolt’s lawyer, Neil Young, had argued the articles represented his client’s genuinely held views on matters of public interest.
Bolt argued his articles were fair and were within the laws of free speech provisions.
But barrister Ron Merkel SC, appearing for the applicants, said the articles took a “eugenics approach” that was frozen in history.
Today Federal Court Justice Mordecai Bromberg found Bolt had breached the act because the articles were not written in good faith and contained factual errors.
He said the articles would have offended a reasonable member of the Aboriginal community.
Speaking outside court, Bolt described the verdict as “a terrible day for free speech in this country”.
But there was jubilation inside the court as the decision was handed down.
“It is particularly a restriction on the freedom of all Australians to discuss multiculturalism and how people identify themselves,” he said.
“I argued then and I argue now that we should not insist on differences between us but focus instead on what unites us as human beings.”
Ms Eatock said she was not holding out hope of an apology from Mr Bolt.
“I will never get an apology from Mr Bolt. He made that clear giving his evidence earlier in the year,” she said outside court.
“But we will, I hope, get some sort of acknowledgment through the press that what he wrote was just unacceptable, totally unacceptable. He set out to offend from the word go and in fact he acknowledged that in his evidence.”
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