psssssst Seattle
Check out Elizabeth Warren. She has culturally appropriated American Indian.
Does it look anything like one of our senators?
Mmhmm - ergo tearing down confederate statues is an assault on cultural sensitivity and needs to be rectified.
Without totem poles they become Des Moines with three times the rainfall.
Similar to idiots wanting to tear down/destroy Civil War statues/memorials.
When do we start working on WWI stuff?
Is the democrat socioeconomic plantation culturally sensitive?
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Perhaps they should ask the local tribes, not appoint party white commissions.
Tall totem poles should ALL be removed, because they are a product of White Englishmen.
It was Captain Cook’s 3rd voyage that gave the NW indians the tools to make these tall racist poles of hatred.
Cook traded metal tools with the Indians. Then he told them to make racist, homophobic, intolerant statues as a symbol of peace with England.../s
Actually, it is true that Cook provided the tools that took the Totem Poles from short to tall.
Oh ... when ... the douchebags go marching in!
Yes when the douchebags go marching in,
Oh you can bet Seattle will be represented in their number,
When the douchebags go marching in!
"Like many of his contemporaries, he [Chief Seattle] owned slaves captured during his raids"
Chief Seattle was a slave owner. It is way past time to rename this city. It may take the city a few decades to establish a new, recognizable brand worldwide. So what. I don't care about anything but getting rid of that horrible legacy of the horrible people that live there.
Here’s the irony - the Blackfeet were slavers as were the Canadian tribes Klickitat and Haida who made many of those totem poles in commemoration of the yearly raids during the salmon returns on the various Pacific Northwest tribes like the Lummi, Makah, Nisqualli, Snowqualmi, Suquamish, Chinacum, and others now absorbed.
Lets make sure all is culturally sensitive now - slavery by whites is evil, slavery by ‘Native Tribes’ is just fine.
I thought that honoring other cultures was the hallmark of the educated left! Now they’re saying that it’s cultural appropriation!
[[Seattle to review totem poles for cultural sensitivity]]
Oh shut the hell up Seattle! How’s that for sensitivity?
Tear them all down - Cultural Appropriation!
These fools and sports teams are missing a bet. Contract with Indian tribes to create and maintain “art”, using only pseudo-traditional and non-sacred “art”. Get the tribes to openly sponsor it, and pay them well, probably about the same as for non-Indian “art”.
Sports team could really go for the gold here, and on a small budget. Save some box seats for tribal leaders which they could either use or rent out.
And if any weiner-head gives the team a hard time about “cultural appropriation” or nonsense like that, ask the tribe to jump all over them about it (for a fee of course).
Anything is fair game. Team names from secular and inoffensive tribal words. Costume play designed by the tribe. All sorts of tribal themed concession products for fans.
None of it diminishes the tribe, but does give them a good revenue stream, and shows them to be good neighbors and friends.
these guys crack me up. Not to worry about cultural sensitivity towards their resident Lenin Statue, but so much concern over totums.