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You know, it will forever be disturbing to me that many nations just wiped out most or all of their indigenous people, and then just started using their imagery/names for things like streets, towns, road names, schools, and so on. That even bothered me as a chuddy kid

What even is the defense for it, besides ‘muh tradition’?

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I believe it’s because we feel bad about it. In the US at least, there’s a decent amount of awareness of the horrors that we perpetrate against the Native Americans (not all the horrors, mind you, of course). And there’s a sort of veneration that we as a society have for “the memory of them” (forgetting that they actually still live here). I think it’s a sincere regret about what our ancestors did. It’s naive, but it’s sincere. We want to honor them, and respect them, but we don’t know any of them and haven’t asked what THEY would like us to do. I don’t remember the term for it, but it’s basically “white man thinks they’re doing the right thing but are too ignorant/arrogant to know that it’s not the right thing, and aren’t willing to ask”.

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Why not just draw a black hawk

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