More Unbelievable "Cultural Appropriation" BS

[Mike]

I just can't get over the "cultural apprioriation" BS going on. Here is the latest example:

Minnetonka is apologizing for profiting off of Native American culture without acknowledging its role in the 75-year-old Minnesota company's line of moccasins and other footwear products.

"We recognize that our original products, some of which are still sold today, have been appropriated from Native American culture," David Miller, Minnetonka's CEO, said Monday in a statement. "Minnetonka deeply and meaningfully apologizes for having benefited from selling Native-inspired designs without directly honoring native culture or communities."

SOURCE

Really? You are apologizing for manufacturing moccasins? Be damned if I will ever buy anything from someone so stupid! I suggest a boycott of Minnetonka!

[Honda]

I can't top that but I can add to it. There's a town called Moundville close to the University of Alabama. It's called Moundville because the Indians that once inhabited the area built mounds and buried their dead. Many years ago with permission archaeologists from the University of Alabama were able to recover a number of very important historical objects. I know that was at least 50 to 60 years ago. It seems today members of the Indian tribe are now demanding return of all of the objects which have been tastefully and carefully taken care of in a museum on the campus. So it goes.

[Truckman]

I wear moccasins for house shoes...They're made by some starving kid in China...I don't know his name, ask Jeff Bezos, he gets the money for them...Whatever tribe the upset Indians are should apologize to the starving kid in China because the Indians originally came from the Chinese people who crossbred with the Siberian Yukaghir inhabitants, and then crossed the land bridge that existed across the Bering Sea a few eons ago...The Indians at least owe the kid a cut from the judgement they'll eventually receive in court......Ben

[UTAH]

I think man, and mankind, learns and appropriates from other humans on a regular basis. We've even formalized the process through copyrights and patents. You look at many modern marvels and we can trace their development from invention to becoming a necessity. It simply is what it is. And, we expect it to occur.

Hunter

[Blue74]

I wear moccasins for house shoes...They're made by some starving kid in China...I don't know his name, ask Jeff Bezos, he gets the money for them...Whatever tribe the upset Indians are should apologize to the starving kid in China because the Indians originally came from the Chinese people who crossbred with the Siberian Yukaghir inhabitants, and then crossed the land bridge that existed across the Bering Sea a few eons ago...The Indians at least owe the kid a cut from the judgement they'll eventually receive in court......Ben

New information.

Native Americans

[Mike]

Interestingly, at least to me, this is the first I have ever heard of Native Americans having originated in Japan. I was always of the belief that they came from continental Asia.

[UTAH]

"The most likely source of the Native American population appears to be Siberia."
- Science Daily

Interesting - and if corroborated, impactful on our history.

Hunter