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highplainsdem

(48,993 posts)
Mon Oct 9, 2017, 08:10 PM Oct 2017

Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire Website Posts Racist Video Mocking Native Americans for Columbus Day

https://www.mediaite.com/online/ben-shapiros-daily-wire-website-posts-racist-video-mocking-native-americans-for-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.

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Shapiro, understandaly, came under fire for this disgusting video. His defense was that he'd been on vacation, hadn't greenlighted the video and had just seen it.

But he also said it's just "satire" - "obviously a response to the Left’s decision to turn Columbus Day into a story purely about Western civilization 'genociding' Native Americans."

He finished his defense of the video by saying, "Conservatives are allowed to make satire, too."

Of course, what conservatives call "satire" is typically just a snarkier version of their usual bigotry.
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Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire Website Posts Racist Video Mocking Native Americans for Columbus Day (Original Post) highplainsdem Oct 2017 OP
The 'I was out golfing with the Moron" defense DK504 Oct 2017 #1

DK504

(3,847 posts)
1. The 'I was out golfing with the Moron" defense
Mon Oct 9, 2017, 09:27 PM
Oct 2017

ain't gonna cut it any longer. If your name is on it, you own every bit of it.

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