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On why criticism of the Little House on the Prairie books is not woke PC cancel culture.

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Which I already wrote.

To Kill a Mockingbird is racist garbage too

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These things were seen as racist by writers at that time. They just didn't get published much, or noticed much, because their narrative wasn't the one that America wanted to hear.

The LHOP show was worse btw, combining settler racism with TKAMB white saviourism.
Moral?

Read Black and Indigenous authors. Follow Black and Indigenous thinkers on Twitter.
Listen to podcasts by Black and Indigenous people.

Stop trying to rescue your faves and learn real history.
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daanis
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If you want to understand contemporary race relations you have got to understand history as a hand over hand transmission of ideas and beliefs that show themselves in connected events.

We are taught history as eras, each one giving way to the next in progression

That is false.
My father was born in the 40s. He remembers his grandfather who was born in the 1880s. That means I have second hand accounts of life at the turn of that century. Ideas about race. Indigenous people's place in Canada.

Isaiah was a Hudson's Bay man in Northwestern Ontario.
Your Black friends have similar stories. Grandparents who would have heard first or second hand accounts of slavery. Of the end of slavery. Maybe first hand accounts of Jim Crow and everything that replaced slavery.
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daanis
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Settler environmentalism as violence against Indigenous women.

Dr Jennifer Brant.
Dr Brant is presenting as part of the Indigenous Rights conference. She has done research on violence against the land as violence against women.
Dr Brant does research on mandatory Indigenous classes and teaches these courses. Looking at the impact that this has on Indigenous students and teachers in this hostile environment. How to offset the tensions of these spaces.
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Being Anishnaabe is a social and political identity. Like being French. Or Chinese. It is not a race.

Like the French and Chinese we emerged as a people after centuries of migrations, merges, and splits.
That emergence, is connected to the land where it happened. Just like other nations.

We existed as nations with our own political structures and over centuries we developed boundaries and treaties with our neighbours. We participated in trade relationships.
We also had religious beliefs that explained our place in the cosmos and governed our relationships with all beings.
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