Lakota Indians Withdraw Treaties Signed With U.S. 150 Years Ago - Page 2

~~Monty Python~~ · 12-24-2007, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Drew1369

Survival of the fitest

Good thing spelling is not a survival skill.

**Drew1369** · 12-25-2007, 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Monty Python

Good thing spelling is not a survival skill.

Never claimed to be a good speller

**Chode** · 12-29-2007, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Monty Python

They had this bountiful continent for thousands of years, and the best they could achieve was stone tools and shelters made of dead-animal skin.

An inferior people, culture, race, whatever that failed to advance past mere basic survival. Most didn't even have a written language. And in the middle of an age filled with expontential leaps in human development, we are supposed to have some respect for the people that scribbled stick-figures of buffalos on sides of cave walls.

As someone with Indian blood in the family, I find these remarks disturbingly racist. I don't consider my relatives to be "inferior" in any sense compared to Whites. Monty, before you criticize drew for his spelling, you might want to review your, "expontential" and "buffalos".

bry623 · 01-03-2008, 07:26 AM

Use Firefox, it has a spell checker.

Indians were the way they were because they did not want to be enslaved.

~~Monty Python~~ · 01-03-2008, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Chode

As someone with Indian blood in the family, I find these remarks disturbingly racist. I don't consider my relatives to be "inferior" in any sense compared to Whites. Monty, before you criticize drew for his spelling, you might want to review your, "expontential" and "buffalos".

Of course you do. It's a much easier to dismiss the person that makes these kinds of statements than it is to seriously consider them and what they might mean, not only for their basic truth but also also what that truth might mean in terms of values.

I also am part Native American (Creole, on my mother's side) as well as African, French and Mexican. So please stop using your (claim) of race as a means to get a "pass"; there ain't no affirmative action here, Tonto. You'd be stupid no matter what your color or ethnicity, there's is no point in dragging everyone down with you to your level. If you find my comments offensive, perhaps this is because they are proven by your very existance. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

They invented the entire academic sub-catagory of "cultural relativism" in order to allow members of inferior cultures to believe that they have some equivalency, and the misapplied (and overused) term "racist" is a means of defending that sense of adequacy, when the evidence of it's absence is overwhelming.

Further, the "spelling" comment was a joke, not "criticism"; and this hysteric attempt at manipulation has been noted as well.

bry623 · 01-03-2008, 10:53 AM

But maybe that was why should respect them.............. just like we should respect each other here.

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bry623 Manager, The Conversation Pit/Analyst, Security Team Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: NW Territory circa 1787 Posts: 10,551 OS: winxp pro sp2	Re: Lakota Indians Withdraw Treaties Signed With U.S. 150 Years Ago Use Firefox, it has a spell checker. Indians were the way they were because they did not want to be enslaved. __________________ When you fear Sarah, you attack her and try destroy her

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bry623 Manager, The Conversation Pit/Analyst, Security Team Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: NW Territory circa 1787 Posts: 10,551 OS: winxp pro sp2	Re: Lakota Indians Withdraw Treaties Signed With U.S. 150 Years Ago But maybe that was why should respect them.............. just like we should respect each other here. __________________ When you fear Sarah, you attack her and try destroy her