Obviously I'm flattered to have a personality, but for the record and in case Obleak comes in and tells me off
What I hold contempt for is the white progressive's absurd caricaturing of the Indian, which pretends to empathy but in fact is one more fetishizing projection
speak of the devil...
I'm not sure that is a just an issue with progressives since I've also seen/heard similar fetishizing projection from conservatives regarding american indians along the lines of the "noble savage" stereotype, and there are the sports team names and mascots (another form of fetishizing projection), and various names/mascots of various brands of products - I mean, it's really just all over american culture in general.
However, I'd say that negative caricaturizations and stereotypes are probably more harmful, especially when it gives people license not to care about what happens to the most impoverished people in our country, or what is happening/happens to various tribes and their various issues.
I'd also say that the people I've encountered at intertribal pow wows, when they aren't american indian or belong to a tribe, they tend to be more often on the progressive side, and there is nothing that shatters caricaturizations and stereotypes more than actually interacting with people:
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