Archived How do you feel about lady liberty being a black woman? (AskVoat)
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Archived How do you feel about lady liberty being a black woman? (AskVoat)
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[–] CANCEL-CAT-FACTS 7 points 30 points 37 points (+37|-7) ago (edited ago)
Lady Liberty is a white woman for the precise reason that she represents enlightened eurpoean values, which only come from white people. Any attempt to co-opt her image is a treasonous repudiation of civilization.
[–] IndigoElectric [S] 1 point 3 points 4 points (+4|-1) ago
Fair enough, let me ask this though: wouldn't that mean whites couldn't portray themselves in native americans with their feather headdresses?
[–] CANCEL-CAT-FACTS 0 points 24 points 24 points (+24|-0) ago
Not on Indian currency. They wouldn't allow it.
[–] Seventh_Jim 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
The word "couldn't" is an odd choice. It suffices that the symbol falls flat when divorced from the ethnicity it is born of.
White people will never have the proper appreciation of the barbaric shamanism of the native american tribes. Not because white people never had barbaric shamanism, but because they had a different kind.
[–] Foralltoosee 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Keep in mind that in this example, publicly funded forces would select to dress a White person up as a native and then say that it is an appropriate representation of native peoples, and suggest others use it as well. Don't think you're going to see that anywhere.
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[–] CANCEL-CAT-FACTS 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
They are not appropriating; they are erasing. The enlightenment values that descend from euopean history are from one source only, the white civilization.