Now, if you want to talk about gaslighting, the old American Westerns were the Biggest gaslighting bs stories ever created. Actors like John Wayne portrayed heroic cowboys and soldiers defending the nation against the "heathen redskins." In a number of them, the Indigenous Tribes were seen as either white-hating maniacs, always wanting war, or lusting after white women, always getting drunk, envious of the white man or overbearing sidekicks. The Worst part of it was, those movies and shows had people Cheering for the destruction of the sociopathic red man. Another example is the story of the Lone Ranger. An Indigenous man riding alongside the heroic white man fighting for white man's justice, Despite the fact that he was disrespected himself. His name was Tonto. I never understood why he had that name until I took Spanish in high school, Then I learned that "Tonto" in Spanish means FOOL, which when you looked at how the Rest of the tribes were treated, was aptly applied. It's only when I got older, in high school and when they Actually taught American History, that I learned Otherwise about the tribes. For example, the myth that Indigenous people started scalping. Not true. French traders and militia started it as a way to humiliate and dishearten the more warrior tribes. Why? Because the tribes in those regions believed that, by fighting and dying an honorable death with their hair intact, guaranteed their passage into the realm of their honored ancestors. In other words, they got into heaven by dying with their hair. The French scalped the braves as a means to discourage other tribes from retaliating when the French encroached on tribal lands looking for gold, precious jewels and hunting for animals.
So, AGAIN, this is about as much gaslighting as any Other story, told millions of times by the caucasian perspective. It's Just A Story.
So, AGAIN, this is about as much gaslighting as any Other story, told millions of times by the caucasian perspective. It's Just A Story.
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