Posted on 10/26/2016 4:44:42 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
According to Misao Dean, Professor of English at the University of Victoria, the canoe can be a symbol of colonialism, imperialism and genocide due to history. She also accused the canoers of cultural appropriation because they are primarily white men and have a privileged place in society.
In a radio interview for CBC Radio, which wasn’t picked by the Internet until several months later, she claimed “we have a whole set of narratives that make the canoe into a kind of morally untouchable symbol, something that seems natural, that seems ordinary, and seems to promote values that we ascribe to.”
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OK, now we can all wait anxiously for the gender studies paper on the phallic connotations of the kayak.
What a dunder head. Native Americans created and used canoes long before the Europeans arrived.
These humorless, smug people give me a headache.
What?
She left out the wheel as a racist, xenophobe invention?
I feel sorry for the Alaskan Inuit, who has had their culture co-opted by the use of Kayaks...
Still, her logic leaks more than the Titanic did...
When i think of canoes i usually think of headhunters holding shrunken heads in their hands
The nutcase in her own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QLci3ugTm0
All black females that straighten their hair are GUILTY of cultural appropriation.
Same goes for black males that play modern sports invented by white males.
Since we’re playing silly games, let’s play seriously eh lib trash?
Canoes?..I did not Ca-know?
Does the professor eat pizza? Chinese food?
Um...what? Canoes or something like them are common to every human culture that moves on the water going back to the ancient Sumerians. Our English professor should have crossed the hallway to speak with her Anthropology colleagues before embarrassing herself.
Well, I guess the game of basketball (invented by a white Christian guy) you could say has been culturally mis-appropriated by African Americans ... just saying ...
I’m so effing sick of these people....
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I thought the canoe was an Indian invention, not a white man’s. Where does this insanity come from 24 / 7? They need obviously need jobs....
So am I. their ignorance, race baiting and sense of superior worth makes me wish for a place to get away from them permanently.
Shut up professor and enjoy the suck that you’re creating for yourself.
Professor Dean reeks of the gasoline she’s been huffing.
Sometimes a boat is just a boat. Sheesh, get a life people and stop finding completely irrelevant things to worry about!
Silly canuck
Next she’ll be claiming they own the rights to the invention of fire.
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