#7, RE: here is a hole I've fallen down
Posted by Wiregeek on Jun-22-15 at 10:12 PM
In response to message #4
>(Also the Ayn Rand one, but I haven't gone there because I don't even > Just to give you a taste of what a treat it is to discuss such matters with > Mom, she would agree with Rand in the clip where she dismisses Native > American grievances on the grounds that they didn't have a real civilization > before white folks came, anyway.) While I've certainly never gone that far, I do get tired of the 'noble savage' line shoved down my throat throughout school - "The Indians" were a whole mess of different groups and divisions and different ways, and they were - ha! - as Quitayne as they come, to steal an Eyrie line from ancient history (and probably misspell it)
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