Mark Steyn: Before the white man came? War

Macleans ^ | 07/18/06 | Mark Steyn

[Drawsing]

Another inconvenient politically incorrect fact about Pocahantas is that she was converted to Christianity.

[jpl]

I always suspected that the myth of the noble savage hooey was an invention of modern guilt-ridden, left wing white men.

[Dr.Deth]

Yet another in the litany of brilliance from the Great One. There's definitely some points here that I'm going to use to go all Charles Martel on some Hizballah apologists on other forums.

[The_Reader_David]

Romanticizing the savage has been going on since at least Tacitus, and got worse since Rousseau.

[nina0113]

A few years ago, I asked Tim Rice, who'd just written the lyrics for Disney's Aladdin and The Lion King, why he wasn't doing Pocahontas. "Well, the minute they mentioned it," he said, "I knew the Brits would be the bad guys. I felt it was my patriotic duty to decline."

Well, good for him. I wish a few more people in the industry knew the words "patriotic duty."

[LexBaird]

You can't feed millions of Meso-Americans on Chihuahuas alone.

Yo quiero Taco Bell.

[Mercat]

http://www.uoregon.edu/~jboland/rousseau.html

Rousseau

[Billthedrill]

"He also had with him," notes professor Keeley, "a dagger, a bow, and some arrows; presumably these were his small change."

BAHAHAHAHAHA...yeah, and I carry ammo in my pockets to barter with...

Nonetheless, anthropologists concluded that he was a shepherd who had fallen asleep and frozen peacefully to death in a snowstorm. Then the X-ray results came back and showed he had an arrowhead in him.

Well, that's carrying emergency funds just a bit too far, in my opinion.

"Solitary, nasty, brutish, and short." But enough about Howard Dean...

[what's up]

This view of the innocent natives is everywhere.

I'm reading "Flyboys" about WWII fliers which would be an excellent book were it not for a lot of moral equivalency...passages about how the Americans used "ethnic cleansing" on American Indians and took Hawaii at "bayonet-point"...that kind of stuff.

Outrageous historical revisionism is everywhere.

[Killborn]

It's a win win situation. You either get money or you expose reparations for the fraud it is. Let's see the race pimps scream "reparations" now.

[Blue State Insurgent]

LOL!

[Centurion2000]

You'll recall that, when Samuel Doe was toppled as Liberia's leader, he was served a last meal of his own ears. His killers kept his genitals for themselves, under the belief that if you eat a man's penis you acquire his powers

Sounds like Doe just pissed off Mike Tyson instead of revolutionaries.

[Madame Dufarge]

I don't remember any European civilization that practiced cannibalism as a routine matter.

Though they were certainly outcasts and reviled, have you ever read about the grotesque Beane family of Scotland? Strange, strange story.

The Sawny Beane family

[Centurion2000]

Nonetheless, anthropologists concluded that he was a shepherd who had fallen asleep and frozen peacefully to death in a snowstorm. Then the X-ray results came back and showed he had an arrowhead in him.

Just a freak hunting accident - nothing to see here. /s

It was Cheney hunting back when he first came of age !! (/DU moonbat rant)

[Calvin Locke]

Nah, the NCAA. They seemed to have usurped the role of protector. Probably have more money, too.

[garyhope]

Nah, it was the guilty white women. Buncha bleeding hearts and flowers.

[garyhope]

ROFL.

[garyhope]

" under the belief that if you eat a man's penis you acquire his powers."

My first wife would know all about that. She got my power of attorney and divorced me.

Then there was this real cute gal in LA,........

Rimshot! Badda Boom!

[IronJack]

The difference here is that when the king heard about this abomination, he summoned an army of 400 and scoured the countryside for the offenders. In the case of the "civilized" Aztecs, the king also scoured the countryside, but for the same reason as Sawny Beane: shopping.

[RJL]

I would like to be added to the Steyn ping.

Thanks