The Eskimos Pie thing is a perfect example of this. Everyone was offended except for the Eskimos.MouthBQ98 said:agsalaska said:
Couple of thoughts.
I would be curious to see how actual native American feel about this. I remember the last tiem this kicked up there will polls showing natives against a chance like 85-15. I bet, after teaching victim hood for a generation that has changed a bit.
But it doesnt really matter. This has nothing to do with race in the end. That's not the left's end game.
So many people today want the opportunity to proclaim to be offended on behalf of others and never bother to determine if those others are truly offended or if it is only a small activist fraction engaged in political manipulations via a claim offense that Is then merely amplified by these outsiders, against the wishes of the majority.
The skeptic Communist hater in me thinks it is more than just dumbass guilty white people. The Bolsheviks were hell bent, especially pre WWII, on eliminating any and all personal identities. It was a core tenant of Lenin. You were not black, white, christian, muslim, Georgian, nothing. You were communist. These progressives that a lot of us think are just lunatic whites, which for the masses may be true, are lead by people who follow the same ideologies. And you see it happening all over. Aunt Jemima and Uncle Bens, the Indian butter, Eskimo Pies, now the Redskins, are all about erasing history and identities.
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