...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happinessfirst will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with
white supremacistsocieties, since they push the same values...
. In a disgusting Wednesday afternoon interview with Oglala Lakota tribe member Nick Tilsen, MSNBC gave a platform to someone who legitimately believes the United States of America should give up this national monument in the name of racism.Tur openly associated Mount Rushmore with the tearing down of statues across the country:
But his visit it coincides with the national reckoning over racism and the toppling of monuments linked to America’s prejudiced past. And according to many Native Americans and Native American activists, Mount Rushmore should be one of them.
How pathetic and offensive for Tur to insist that Mount Rushmore is a dedication to white supremacy. This is considering the fact that Abraham Lincoln, the president is responsible for freeing the slaves, is one of the four faces carved into the mountain.
Tilsen brought this radical viewpoint on American history to life in this interview:
Well, Mount Rushmore is stolen land from Oglala Lakota indigenous people and it's a symbolizes of white supremacy and structural racism. They systematically stole this land from us as indigenous people and then carved the faces of white colonizers, four white men who were colonizers who contributed to the genocide of indigenous people. And so it’s one of the fundamental symbols of white supremacy in America. And the fact that the president is coming here to this place, with such deep history of racism shows one of the narratives he's perpetuate.
The narrative that Tilsen is poised was not only incorrect, but incredibly dangerous and vile. Of course MSNBC considers this platform well and good seeing how it is tainted in an anti-American sentiment.
Tilsen also demanded that Mount Rushmore must be given back to his tribe:
We think that, we believe that Mount Rushmore should be closed as a national monument. And it should be reverted back into the control of indigenous people and Lakota people of the territory for us to decide what we should do with it.
One of the biggest flaws in Tilsen’s ill-informed take on history was that the Oglala Lakota stole that land from a different Native American tribe, therefore rendering his "stolen land" argument problematic.
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