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Why are American Indigenous myths considered more taboo than other cultural mythological creatures? : SeriousConversation
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I don't know if anybody but white progs would be offended if you put a wendigo in a game but they get offended at everything.
I just thought it never happened because no one knows what a wendigo is. Same with other native legends, not enough people are familiar with them.
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The skinwalker annoys me most because the 4chan version is an r-slured take on the real thing. Folklore accurate Skinwalkers are insane shapeshifting murderous witches who get that power by murdering a loved one. They can pretend to be your husband, walk into your house because you let them in, murder your family, and then fly off in the form of an owl. They are much scarier than just a weird desert dwelling creature.
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May moonmetropolis crawl out of the computer and r*pe you.
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Any recommended reads, videos etc on the folklore?
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The mythic world,
American Indians' Kitchen-Table Stories: Contemporary Conversations With Cherokee, Sioux, Hopi, Osage, Navajo, Zuni, and Members of Other Nations,
https://history.denverlibrary.org/news/skinwalkers-wendigos-and-witchery-way
The Dresden files also makes up an entity that taught them how to do this that is truly horrifying.
https://thoughtcatalog.com/brianna-abello/2017/04/i-was-told-not-to-speak-about-skinwalkers-this-is-what-happens-when-you-break-the-rules/
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2020/03/15/navajo-skinwalker/
Also they don't talk about it because the frickers eat people who do.
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Nice, I'll have to check these out when I finish my backlog
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White progs tried to get Speedy Gonzales removed from reruns and invented Latinx.
Beaners told them to eat shit and die on both accounts since they love Speedy and hate Latinx.
!andale
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@Fresh_Start want Apu back.
Jewish lives matter too Aevann.
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I have one of the call of cthulhu solo books which has a big disclaimer at the front autoflagellating about how its main beastie is a wendigo. For a game which robs every bit of mythology it can it felt pretty pathetic.
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SCP - 096 is literally a wendigo and the progs don't mind. The trick is too change it a little and not call it the offending word. The prog mind is so regarded they don't recognize a thing without the offending word being used along with it.
Jewish lives matter too Aevann.
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Why are people so sensitive about Injuns but are totally okay being peepees about Jesus?
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They're against punching down and believe American Indians are beneath them.
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MFW they invent an even looser watch bracelet.
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I think my high school gf had one like his
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...Has?
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Oops had lmao
(we just barely broke up)
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A lot of Indian
folklore monsters 
are considered taboo to talk about. People mistake 
this as some sort of cultural or moral 
thing when they actually 
just thought 
the scary 
monster 
comes after people who talk about it lol.
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https://old.reddit.com/r/AntiSemitismInReddit/comments/1hhrzay/rireland_explains_that_its_not_antisemitic_by/
Also unrelated bonus post about the irish
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Redditors are r-slurred, Jews are a literal race.
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Indigenous arts and culture being strip mined by outsiders for profit has people sensitive and suspicious of outsiders using native folklore and motifs, especially when said outsiders have often (purposefully or not) misunderstood the stories or folklore resulting in cultural misrepresentation. And when you're a small group that misrepresentation may be all everyone ever learns about you, so congrats that's the popular image of you/your tribe/your folklore now. The resulting attitude is often of either wanting to be very involved in the creative process if native lore is being used, or just wanting to be left the frick alone.
Also because sometimes myths are actually part of active belief systems, and people always get extra touchy about belief systems being misrepresented or profited from. Which is understandable, especially if you're a small group and your religion has a recent history of being surpressed
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Who cares lol none of it changes the original mythology or how those people use it.
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You came to the wrong website brother
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Nah
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Neighbor get your ChatGPT replying butt out of here.
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Excuse me, but I pull nerd knowledge out of my own butt, not AI
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Being sensible gets you downmarseyd.
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We shit on them for ~500 years, their population got decimated, and their land got took.
It's a touchy subject when you have the most powerful country in the world, built upon slavery and persecutuon of the indigenous population.
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That being said, American Indians aren't blaimless, a lot of their failures have to do with tribal infighting and inability to form a collective group and fight against the common enemy (yts).
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Their biggest failure was not having any immunity to Eurasian diseases and dying en masses before most of them had even heard of the white man.
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after dat millions died trail of
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Also they were too r-slurred to invent writing.
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Still, no reason to insult them after they lost everything. Same reason we don't piss on Japs or Germs after they got BTFOd by freedom.
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Thank you for replying to yourself twice so I can downmarsey you three times.
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r u mad?
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