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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMike Huckabee: Is Disney 'Racist' For Making a Billion Dollars from Pocahontas Franchise?
by Colby Hall | 10:36 am, November 28th, 2017
Mike Huckabee is more than just the former Governor of Arkansas. He is also the father of White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a Fox News contributor, and a full-throated defender of President Donald Trump, regardless of what may come out of his mouth.
During an appearance on Fox & Friends this morning, he was asked to comment on the current dust-up surrounding Trumps Pocahontas dig at Senator Elizabeth Warren during a White House ceremony honoring Native American Code Talkers who were heroes of World War II, which many saw as an unnecessary, inappropriate, and even racist dig at one of his political rivals.
Warren has claimed Native American ancestry which her detractors believe she used to gain advantageous status as a minority, particularly during her time at Harvard. There is a lot that is unsettled in this story: does Warren actually have indigenous people lineage? Is Trump racist for mocking her as Pocahontas? In other words, it is perfect fodder for opinion-based cable news programming as there is plenty of outrage to go around.
Enter Governor Huckabee, who provided his own interesting take on this controversy by raising the specter of the wildly profitable Disney movie franchise Pocahontas, asking is that racist? (Answer no it is not. That movie celebrates the bravery of Pocahontas and the indigenous traditions before her people suffered genocide at the hands of many of Americanss ancestors.) And just in case Huckabee hadnt delivered enough derp, he then questioned whether Warren was committing cultural appropriation by claiming Native American ancestry, apparently unaware that cultural appropriation is when someone fashions the cultural traditions of one that is not their own.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/mike-huckabee-is-disney-racist-for-making-a-billion-dollars-from-pocahontas-franchise/
Kleveland
(1,257 posts)Typical repug nonsense...
Instead of taking any responsibility for one's actions...
"But what about xxxxxx? They did it too!"
Now, I am old enough to remember that such excuses never worked on parents, or school teachers and officials.
Babbling of a child-like mentality.
The country is being directed by study-hall inmates, who are eating their own buggers in the plain view of mature individuals.
chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)I will have to go back and watch it again.
moda253
(615 posts)Because far too many millions of people believe this type of gaslighting.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)Doing it a campaign rally is one thing (still disgusting). Taking focus off these World War II veterans who won't be with us much longer is another thing entirely.
moda253
(615 posts)And I am not sure it matters. This is what a very large segment of the country believes makes it ok. And it works on them because they truly don't give a shit about whether or not it is offensive or not. Remember they have been complaining about Political Correctness for a decade or more. The fact that someone might be offended matters not to them. And if they can show that there is (completely unrelated) wrongness that they can attach to the story then that's all the justification they need.
Idiocracy at it's finest.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)"So easy a caveman could do it" or something like that? Some on the right took those commercials to mean it was okay to make fun of anybody that wasn't white, straight and male? So, making fun of cavemen was the same as making fun of black people or brown people or gay persons. Sounds like similar logic here.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)but it can be rather unseemly.
Irish_Dem
(47,382 posts)It is a way to confuse the issue and stop people from looking at their crimes.
The Trump family is sociopathic right down the line.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)Link to tweet
I guess everyone got their marching orders today
It's so pathetic that people fall for these bozos.
underpants
(182,877 posts)This will probably be mentioned several times today across RW media.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)oy vey
GusBob
(7,286 posts)I see they are attacking another American institution
Too democratic, makes people feel good, Vlad the destroyer hates it
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)The casual racism of ignoring ethnic history and turning it into entertainment is racist.
oasis
(49,407 posts)BoneyardDem
(1,202 posts)no wonder they try and vilify Harry Potter the embodiment and sanctioning and promoting witchery.