Native American activists are attacking an
Olympic landmark in the Sierras
American Thinker,
by
Andrea Widburg
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
6/27/2020 3:08:53 AM
If you’re from Northern California, you might have spent time at Squaw Valley in Lake Tahoe, the site of the 1960 Winter Olympic Games. It is one of America’s most beautiful mountain areas.
Now, though, the leftists have Squaw Valley in their crosshairs, for they’re claiming that the word “squaw” is a pejorative that must be stricken from the English language. Not only is this out-of-control cultural Marxism, it’s factually wrong. As with so many things that leftists advocate, it comes from a place of ignorance.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported on Thursday that the Squaw Valley resort, to show its woke credentials, is discussing a name change.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Highlander 6/27/2020 6:01:33 AM (No. 458727)
Many good words are bastardized by evil people so they can’t ever be used again in the same light they were originally. “Gay” is a classic example.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 6/27/2020 7:16:46 AM (No. 458784)
Just serve them a piping hot bowl of pow-wow chow.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 6/27/2020 8:32:49 AM (No. 458862)
They should rename it " Buck Valley".
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Goose 6/27/2020 9:30:30 AM (No. 458932)
Anybody remember a place out west called "Whorehouse Meadows?"
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
cold porridge 6/27/2020 10:42:12 AM (No. 459019)
I don't care. Name it Valley of the Libtards.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 6/27/2020 11:35:36 AM (No. 459101)
I've skiied there, long ago.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 6/27/2020 1:47:34 PM (No. 459219)
Oh hell, it's THEIR OWN terminology! Give 'em some booze and they'll leave it alone.
The idiot leftists in Phoenix, AZ fell for this touchy-feely crap years ago too, and renamed Squaw Peak after some female Army truck driver who died in Gulf War I. People can't even pronounce the name, so they continue referring to it as, "Pre-est...you know...Squaw Peak"
This "Cancel-Rename-Tear Down Culture" must stop. These are NOT the most important things in life, except to people who have no life.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
NYbob 6/27/2020 5:38:51 PM (No. 459389)
In the future please be accurate and address all things 'native American' as Stone Age savage. This might still be a country of nomadic tribes fighting and enslaving each other when they weren't starving, IF they had fought together as one nation, but they did not. First they were best buddies with the French and when that didn't work they tried to partner with the British. With zero science or technology all they could do was try and kill any unescorted 'invaders.' That was mostly successful with other tribes, but not a match for rifles, cannons and factories that fed the smokewagons.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 6/28/2020 12:05:58 AM (No. 459575)
#8, not just stone age savages. It is really far worse, and it is rarely talked about, not politically correct to point out how much they were failed. It popped up as a dinner table topic last night with some politically incorrect friends. We were mostly referring to North American Indians, the Aztecs and Maya had a slight bit of an advance over NA Indians. Apparently the Cherokees were the most advanced in NA, but still missing most technologies.
Native Americans never developed the wheel. Travois was it.
Never developed the plow. Stuck at the digging stick/hoe stage of agriculture.
Never developed a written language.
Never developed the magnetic compass.
Never developed the arch, probably because they never built in stone significantly in North America, and has some simple stone stacks (pyramids) in Central America, only made simple stone tools. Some buildings in South America show good stone fitting skills (Machu Pichu) but the sites are exceedingly rare, the technology very sparsely used, never was widely advanced.
Never developed a decent ability to draw a picture. Little or no understanding of artistic things that the Greeks understood, and the Romans understood far better. Perspective, proportions, large scale stone working and building. North American Indian paintings of the era are embarrassingly like a 3 year old's work, central American stone carvings somewhat better, still very simplistic, far cruder than Greek or Roman stone art work.
Never developed a real number system, although there are some Central American calendar systems which had some simple numbers associated with months. That seems to be the maximum advancement of mathematics in the Americas.
Never developed metal working beyond beating the occasional found nugget of gold, silver or copper into something simple, typically jewelry, no bronze or iron tools.
Never developed any computational mathematics or useful geometry.
The Romans had the ability to accurately survey land 2000 years ago, steel swords, cast bronze chariot wheels and hubs, writing, art, a crude but serviceable number system (which held them back). Useful mathematics, although limited by their number system. Romans and earlier could navigate by the stars, using astrolabes.
If Europeans hadn't arrived in North America until 2,000 years later, they would have found the native Americans in about the same situation as they were when they were actually found. Very stagnant cultures, some came and went over a few hundred years, failing to make the leap to stability. Minimal progress for about 10,000 years on the continents.
They would have been wiped out easily by the Greeks or Romans with their massively superior technology.
They were about 10,000 years behind the development in Europe and the Mideast, and falling farther behind every century.
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