My Native American Father Drew The Land O’Lakes Maiden. She Was Never A Stereotype
In my education booklet, “Rethinking Stereotypes,” I noted that communicating misinformation is an underlying function of stereotypes, including through visual images.
One way that these images convey misinformation is in a passive, subliminal way that uses inaccurate depictions of tribal symbols, motifs, clothing and historical references. The other kind of stereotypical, misinforming imagery is more overt, with physical features caricatured and customs demeaned. “Through dominant language and art,” I wrote, “stereotypic imagery allows one to see, and believe, in an invented image, an invented race, based on generalizations.”
I provided a number of examples. Mia wasn’t one of them. Not because she was part of my father’s legacy as a commercial artist and I didn’t want to offend him. Mia simply didn’t fit the parameters of a stereotype. Maybe that’s why many Native American women on social media have made it clear that they didn’t agree with those who viewed her as a romanticized and/or sexually objectified stereotype. Instead, Mia seems to have stirred a sense of remembrance and place, one that they found reassuring about their existence as Native American women. ROBERT DESJARLAIT - Washington Post
Land O'Lakes Is Removing the American Indian Woman. Political Correctness or a Move That Gives More Credit to Farmers?
In the Left’s war on reality, not even butter is safe. There has been a slew of moves that are grounded in political correctness. The bars on the animal crackers boxes were removed is a prime example. Now, Land O’Lakes is removing the American Indian woman from its packaging. No doubt part of it is grounded in social justice warrior nonsense, but the company also says this move is being done to refocus credit to the company’s farmers-owners (via The Hill):
The press release announcing the change was originally issued back in February.
With the same yellow background framed by trees and a lake, the new butter package has the term “Farmer-Owned” above the brand name and is now without the controversial Native American maiden in the center.
“As a farmer-owned co-op, we strongly feel the need to better connect the men and women who grow our food with those who consume it,” Ford reportedly said. “Our farmer-to-fork structure gives us a unique ability to bridge this divide.”
The Native American woman had long been viewed by critics as cultural appropriation and insensitive toward tribal communities.
American indigenous academic Lisa Monchalin wrote in her book “ The Colonial Problem: An indigenous Perspective on Crime and Injustice in Canada” that the Land O’Lakes woman was an example of the romanticized and sexualized construction of indigenous women. Full Story - Matt Vespa - Townhall
The Incompetence Smear
The First Amendment gives everyone the right to call any president any name in the book, including “incompetent.” But just because someone says it, doesn’t make it true.
If Donald Trump’s critics are to be believed, the president’s middle name isn’t John, it’s Incompetent.
President Trump’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic does not mark the first time his critics have accused him of incompetence. The New York Times editorial board has shouted it repeatedly from its Eighth Avenue mountaintop.
For example, in a February 17, 2017 editorial, the Times proclaimed, after quoting presidential historian Douglas Brinkley’s nonhistorical observation that President Trump was “just releasing comments, tweets and policies willy-nilly,” that, “If there is any upside here, it is that the administration’s ineptitude has so far spared the nation from a wholesale dismantling of major laws.” Read More
Media Mouth-Foam Over Trump ‘Suggestion’ of Disinfectant Injection
Idiot media clowns mouth-foam over Trump 'suggestion' of disinfectant injection
In Thursday’s press conference, Bill Bryan leader of the Science and Technology Directorate at the DHS discussed research regarding the effects of light and disinfectants on the Chinese virus. It turns out that UV light has quite an effect on the half life of the virus. Bryan also presented research on the effect of different cleaning agents on the virus. Here’s what Trump said (this is inexact because he is hard to understand) following Bryan’s presentation:
'Supposing we hit the body with the tremendous whether its ultraviolet or very powerful light, and I think you said, that has been tested. What about the light inside of the body either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you would test and then I see the disinfectant, it knocks it out in a minute, and is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside you say it’s in the lungs, and there’s a tremendous numbers [inaudible]. But it sounds interesting to me the whole concept of the light, and one minute. That is pretty powerful.' Read More
