Conservative Hero's Website Posted Blatantly racist cartoon On Columbus day
To celebrate Columbus Day this year, right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro’s website posted a video apparently excusing ethnic genocide by depicting Native Americans as cannibals and savages who weren’t tamed until white Europeans came to America and took their land.
The Daily Wire’s animated video begins with a caption that sarcastically reads, “The North American indigenous people are a noble people…” Then, a group of Native Americans are seen slaughtering and even eating each other. But alas, there is hope for these evil, murderous savages, as the clip then cuts to a very Caucasian looking Christopher Columbus arriving on the North American continent and taming the indigenous people. He does this by teaching them how to construct buildings, raise cattle, and farm crops — though, the video does not include the ethnic genocide, land-stealing, and rape that Columbus and his crew are known by many for .
The second caption reads “1492-2017” and a montage of civilizational progress is shown — suggesting that this positive progress was the sole result of white Europeans showing up in America and killing off much of the native population.
The cherry on top of this racist sundae is a text-on-screen segment in the video that reads, “List Of Contributions.” The Native American side of this list includes dreamcatchers, tomahawks, and cannibalism. On the other side of the screen, the “After Columbus” contributions include iPhones, cars, airplanes, electricity, women’s suffrage, human rights, “The Simpsons,” and about 15 other things.
While Shapiro likes to bill himself as a conservative pundit who is vehemently opposed to racism and the alt-right, with videos like these, it is hard to understand why, as white nationalist leader Richard Spencer often espouses the exact same talking points promoted in this video. Additionally, Shapiro has in the past made openly racist comments about Arabs. “Israelis like to build. Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage. This is not a difficult issue. #settlementsrock,” tweeted Shapiro in 2010.
Many on Twitter were quick to voice disgust over this Daily Wire video, one person calling it “the most racist thing I’ve seen in a long time”:
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Ben Shapiro is an iconic figure for many young conservatives. You may recognize his name as one of those who were being protested against in Berkley.
In South Dakota, the state with the fourth highest percentage of Native American residents, Native Americans compose 60% of the federal caseload, but only 8.5% of the total population.
It appears that the cartoon is rather factual in nature. Indians were primitive and sometimes EXTREMELY savage. Some tribes, like the Iroquois and Hamatsa practiced cannibalism.
And it also appears that not much has changed. Despite advancements in technology and education, native Americans choose to remain part of a dying race rather than embrace American values and principles, resorting to drugs, alcohol and crime.
Is it your contention that native Americans were MORE advanced? Lots technology is a result of WAR. And although war may not be considered to be evolutionarily advanced, it is sometimes NECESSARY. And the result are satellites, space exploration, advanced communications and transportation, submarines, etc.
White Europeans waged war and became more powerful, intelligent, technologically advanced and civilized. Native Americans and Africans waged war and remained stagnant in their technology and intelligence.
Facts are facts. You may find them offensive. But they're facts nonetheless.
The right wing cartoon is racist on it's face. It depicts the Indians in ONE WAY, as eating each other. It depicts the Europeans in ONE WAY, as the ones who made the Americas a better place.
Where is the info in the cartoon about the Spanish enslaving and killing and destroying the native culture?
Open your fucking eyes.
Even Shapiro, the conservative icon, says that the video was unbalanced and unfair. And it was his video.
LMAO I think you should have posted fake outrage cartoon as a rebuttal.
This all because of Columbus Day. Why can't we have both on different days?