ONTD

i think it says a lot that people who do this always get so surprised that there is a native population who care enough to react to what they do. all apologies and discussion aside, there has got to be a change to this narrative that natives are dead when there are so many culturally thriving native communities all across america.

yeah ontd has been doing that a lot lately. assuming that we don't exist and our white allies are just being self righteous. they're really just silencing natives further by saying all the criticism is coming from white people.

Folks on here have been doing that a lot recently and it's annoying.

Agreed. If you go into any ontd picture posts there's tons of members of different races and ethnicities so I don't understand why white seems to be the default on ONTD.

I don't get why people don't see how that's a problem in itself.
Yes, this. Just seems like another silencing and derailing tactic when I see it. I mean, it puts the onus on POC to demonstrate or 'prove' sufficient credibility, while at the same time invalidating the arguments of anyone white as not credible enough (and there's the whiff of credibility needed to put people on the defensive). Plus bonus points for "white girls" as code for "over-sensitive" or some such BS. Not that some one's race would stop the whitesplainers from whining about being misunderstood or anything, it's just the go-to crap they frequently seem to pull.

The guy I am dating is native and very involved in trying to fix a lot of things and lives on his reservation and works in the government so its been interesting to hear things from him I honestly probably wouldn't have been aware of how offensive everything was but I am glad I am aware now.

But yes he talks about how he wish this trend would go away and how people would stop wearing head dresses as costumes or at musical festivals and how offensive it is.