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[–]anonymale 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

From the article:

I suggest that Dolezal offers an important opportunity for us to think seriously about how society should treat individuals who claim a strongly felt sense of identification with a certain race. When confronted with such an individual, how should we respond?

The Lakota nation declared war on them, after decades of their and other nations' polite requests to new agers and hippies to leave them alone went unheard. The resulting howls of narcissistic rage should be very familiar to GCers. (NAFPS stands for New Age Frauds and Plastic Shamans, a long-running project dedicated to documenting and combatting cultural appropriation).

[–]divingrightintowork 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The parallels are uncanny, that's for sure..

You could just as easily paint that as a bunch of Tim's mocking Vancouver rape relief shelter

[–]anonymale 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The para-esoteric Indianess of Plastic Shamanism creates a neocolonial miniature with multilayered implications. First and foremost, it is suggested that the passé Injun elder is incapable of forwarding their knowledge to the rest of the white world. Their former white trainee, once thoroughly briefed in Indian spirituality, represents the truly erudite expert to pass on wisdom. This rationale, once again, reinforces nature-culture dualisms. The Indian stays the doomed barbaric pet, the Indianized is the eloquent and sophisticated medium to the outer, white world. Silenced and visually annihilated like that, the Indian retreats to prehistory, while the Plastic Shaman can monopolize their culture.

Dagmar Wernitzig, Europe's Indians, University Press of America, 2007, cited in Wikipedia's article on plastic shamanism