Posted on 04/19/2024 1:12:51 PM PDT by algore
Outraged Papua New Guinea academics have slammed President Joe Biden for his 'unacceptable' suggestion that his uncle was eaten by cannibals in the country after his plane was shot down during World War II.
Biden implied on two occasions Wednesday that his maternal uncle 2nd Lieutenant Ambrose J. Finnegan had met a grisly end at the hands of cannibals after his plane was shot down by the enemy over New Guinea in 1944.
But the White House and official defense records confirmed that Finnegan died when the military plane he was in experienced engine failure and crashed into the Pacific Ocean, not over land.
Historically, cannibalism has been reported Papua New Guinea, the Pacific nation that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, but local academics say Biden's categorization of the act is 'very offensive'.
Michael Kabuni, a political science lecturer at the University of Papua New Guinea, told The Guardian cannibalism was previously practiced by some communities in very specific contexts and that locals 'wouldn't just eat any white men that fell from the sky'.
Other analysts branded Biden's claims as 'unsubstantiated and poorly judged', especially during a time in which the US has been trying to strengthen its ties with Papua New Guinea.
Kabuni argued that the Melanesian people, which includes the those from Papua New Guinea, are 'very proud' and would be offended by Biden's generalization of cannibalism.
He explained how cannibalism was not practiced due to a lack of food, but instead as a sign of respect in very specific contexts - such as eating a deceased relative's body to prevent it from decomposing.
'But taking it out of context, and implying that your [uncle] jumps out of the plane and somehow we think it's a good meal is unacceptable,' he added.
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These life time politicians are a most disgusting people.
They make stuff up because they have nothing real to offer except other peoples money.
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A story from Herodotus repeating on Free Republic:
"When Darius was king [of Persia], he summoned the Greeks who were at his court and asked them how much money it would take to get them to eat the bodies of their deceased fathers. They replied that nothing would make them do so."
"Darius then summoned some Indians, called Kallatiai, whose custom it is to eat their dead parents, and asked them—in the presence of the Greeks, who had an interpreter to explain the Kallatiai’s words—how much money it would take to convince them to cremate their deceased fathers [as was the Greek custom]."
"The Kallatiai exclaimed that he should not even mention such an abomination. Custom dictates such things, and it seems to me that [the poet] Pindar got it quite right when he said that custom is king.
– Herodotus, Histories 3.38
In any event, 2LT Finnegan would have been fine. Cannibals know that if you put an Irishman in the cauldron, he eats all the potatoes while the water is heating up.
Joe is simply reaching out to expand his voter base……he has LGBQT, Blacks, Union workers, drug dealers, women’s rights, BLM, illegals, why not pick up the CANNIBAL crowd.
Papua New Guinea has a literacy rate of 64% and is 95% Christian. Before independence it was governed by Australia. (The western half of the island is still occupied by Indonesia, which never allowed the native population to determine its own future.) PNG has 9.5 million people. I can believe that they have enough well-educated people to run a university.
Better chance of verifying that story that Biden's story about Corn Pop.
I guess they never read The Peace Child.
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