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minus-squareAtrichum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up39arrow-down1·8 days agoSometimes it feels like playing up how everything is sacred for native Americans actually infantaliszes them and gives the American government a pass on the truly horrific wrongs committed against native Americans.
minus-squareRestrictedAccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·8 days agoThey literally say the entire world is sacred. And the Native Americans I heard describing this weren’t jerks about it. It seems to me that there is a lot of white knighting on this topic.
Sometimes it feels like playing up how everything is sacred for native Americans actually infantaliszes them and gives the American government a pass on the truly horrific wrongs committed against native Americans.
They literally say the entire world is sacred.
And the Native Americans I heard describing this weren’t jerks about it.
It seems to me that there is a lot of white knighting on this topic.