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<blockquote data-quote="codo" data-source="post: 8868585" data-attributes="member: 94626">I don't think it is controversial saying that vast swathes of American culture and society has historically demeaned, belittled, mocked and oppressed Indians.&nbsp; For literally decades the most popular film and television genre in the country was based on celebrating murdering Indians, while you are stealing their land.&nbsp; The definitive children's game of this era is literally &quot;cowboys and Indians&quot;.&nbsp; Children literally grew up pretending to kill Indians.&nbsp; Most Americans didn't consider Indians human beings.&nbsp; They put them in the same fictional category as Horn Helmeted Vikings, Swashbuckling Pirates, and Knights and Dragons.&nbsp; The majority of the country never thought of them as a real living people, who are still dealing with hundreds of years of oppression by our country.Is Bruce Heard (the Author of Orcs of Thar) a terrible person?&nbsp; I don't know I have never met him or know anything about him.&nbsp; What I do know is that he wrote a terrible book, expressing terrible and horrifyingly racist views.&nbsp;&nbsp; I am not going to stop criticize a book for its racist content, just&nbsp; because I might hurt the feelings of the author.&nbsp;&nbsp; Everyone has good and bad parts to their personality.&nbsp; Just because I think someone did something terrible, I don't necessarily think they are a irredeemably terrible person.&nbsp; On the other hand, just because someone might not be a horrible person, that is not going to stop me from criticizing them when when I think they are doing something hurtful and terrible.<h3></h3></blockquote>

[QUOTE="codo, post: 8868585, member: 94626"] I don't think it is controversial saying that vast swathes of American culture and society has historically demeaned, belittled, mocked and oppressed Indians. For literally decades the most popular film and television genre in the country was based on celebrating murdering Indians, while you are stealing their land. The definitive children's game of this era is literally "cowboys and Indians". Children literally grew up pretending to kill Indians. Most Americans [I]didn't [/I]consider Indians human beings. They put them in the same fictional category as Horn Helmeted Vikings, Swashbuckling Pirates, and Knights and Dragons. The majority of the country never thought of them as a real living people, who are still dealing with hundreds of years of oppression by our country. Is Bruce Heard (the Author of Orcs of Thar) a terrible person? I don't know I have never met him or know anything about him. What I do know is that he wrote a terrible book, expressing terrible and horrifyingly racist views. I am not going to stop criticize a book for its racist content, just because I might hurt the feelings of the author. Everyone has good and bad parts to their personality. Just because I think someone did something terrible, I don't necessarily think they are a irredeemably terrible person. On the other hand, just because someone might not be a horrible person, that is not going to stop me from criticizing them when when I think they are doing something hurtful and terrible. [HEADING=2][/HEADING] [/QUOTE]

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