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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Yep, it's all our fault. Never mind that I've never said or done anything to put down a native person. Nor has anyone I've ever met. Or their parents. It's always somebody else's fault.
Disrespecting cultures on a comic book level is not a uniquely native situation. Every culture takes its share of abuse. I can tell you I've made about a billion more Asian driving jokes than Native jokes. Canada basically used Japanese workers as slaves to build our railroads. Yet I don't see crowds of Japanese guys chain smoking outside bars in downtown Lethbridge at noon on a Wednesday. Why is that? If I were to guess, I'd say it has NOTHING to do with the football team in DC being called the Redskins.
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We never tried or had the ability to destroy the Chinese or Japanese cultures. You making racist jokes is one thing but when it becomes ingrain in our culture as openly acceptable
is another thing.
You can't take some natives sitting outside bars as representative of natives. It just shows where your head is at.