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 Shapiros website posted a video apparently excusing ethnic genocide by depicting Native Americans as cannibals and savages who werent tamed until white Europeans came to America and took their land.
The Daily Wires 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, womens 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 Lefts 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.