The Tolerant Ones

Let’s pause to think of the foot fetishists.

That is a creepy website.
Trashberg is good old-fashioned scurrilous journalism, though as for the foot fetishists website, absolutely.

In 1996, the discovery of “Kennewick Man,” an 8,400 year-old Paleoindian skeleton along the Columbia River in southern Washington State, gave rise to a struggle between scientists and Native American activists. … James Chatters, who had received a Corps of Engineers permit to excavate the skeleton, had intended to transport it to the Smithsonian Institution, where other experts could examine it. However, the Corps seized the skeleton, announced its intention to turn it over to Indian tribal claimants, and buried the location of the find with 600 tons of rock and fill to prevent further discoveries.

Follow the science!

In 1996, the discovery of “Kennewick Man,”…
I read something about that back in the late 90’s. As I recall, some archaeological findings threatened Native American religious origin myths, as they pointed to a second, older wave of immigration from Asia. (And theory of immigration from Asia is at odds with those origin myths.)

“a trickster coyote who had a big steamboat that he used to float down the Columbia River”!
Funny, isn’t it, how such Native Americans could insist that such a story predates the arrival of Europeans and their steamboats. We must not surmise that the Noble Injuns might lie.

“a trickster coyote who had a big steamboat that he used to float down the Columbia River”!
In the myth, was the coyote chasing a roadrunner ?

Such tiresome pseudo-knowledge.
Geeenyus actually says, “Because as white people we will always be closer to perpetuating the goals of white supremacy than we are to experiencing them.”
Which is horseshit, since most of you lazy YTs are happy to let us evil overlords do all the heavy lifting while you kick back and enjoy the benefits.

In 1996, the discovery of “Kennewick Man,”…
It’s a bit complicated, as I understand it, because Indigenous peoples rightly object to the common practice of institutions just dispensing the bones of their ancestors for research, a custom which is more or less grave robbing with a respectable name.
In Australia, a piece of woke history – Bruce Pascoe’s ‘Dark Emu’ – claiming the status of ‘agriculturalists’ for our Indigenous inhabitants – has encountered some serious scholarly pushback.
Pascoe mainly cites non-Aboriginal sources. There is no real “voice” given to the few remaining people who lived traditional lives as youngsters, or are cited in books or articles.
While some have described Dark Emu as fabrication, Sutton and Walshe are more measured. They methodically show that in Dark Emu, Pascoe has removed significant passages from publications that contradict his major objectives. This boosts his contention that all along Aboriginal people were farmers and/or aquaculturalists.
Anyway, see what you think – more at the link.

Selective quotation and the omission of evidence that does not support a thesis has been traditionally regarded as a gravely serious violation of scholarly ethics. But perhaps it is now seen as justified when done in the service of the left.
Even the supposedly frank and critical piece has its own oddities. Apparently, an arrested Stone-Age society whose members didn’t think to plant or water the seeds that they occasionally threw about, along with pebbles and dust, and so never arrived at agriculture, mustn’t be thought of as in any way “simple” or “primitive,” relative to other societies of the time, as this would be “racist.” Instead, we’re told that these ossified communities “left an extremely light carbon footprint” and didn’t suffer from “overcrowding.”