Standing Rock Protests

[Ah Pook]

Anyone following this? I have friends in the native American community, so I hear/see a lot more than what is on the news.

Cliven Bundy-media free-for-all
BLM=media-free-for-all
Native Americans protesting oil pipeline=crickets

[Great-Kazoo]

It's been happening for a few weeks. I too know a few people on the rez. 1 or 2 may or may not be in attendance.

[jhood001]

I actually know an intern that had access to a media executives notes from a story-picking meeting.

I share them here for the world (yes, they actually take note in crayon):

[Martinjmpr]

Doesn't fit the narrative = doesn't make the news.

Bundy: "Angry white folks is bad!"

BLM: "Angry black folks is good!"

Indians: "Uh, What?"

[JohnnyDrama]

There has been resistance to that pipeline at various levels for over a year. I think it may finally have all the required permits to begin construction. Likely gonna be a pretty big legal mess before it's all said and done. I believe the above commenters take in relation to other protests are spot on. As far as the BLM folks go they have no clue what disenfranchised is when it comes to life on the rez.

[BushMasterBoy]

RT news (Russia Today) view is that what the North American early settlers did to the native aboriginals was nothing more than the worlds largest case of genocide. So basically the founding fathers made the Nazis look like amateurs. They almost completely obliterated an entire continent. How come they don't teach this in our schools? They didn't in mine anyways.

[tawm]

RT news (Russia Today) view is that what the North American early settlers did to the native aboriginals was nothing more than the worlds largest case of genocide. So basically the founding fathers made the Nazis look like amateurs. They almost completely obliterated an entire continent. How come they don't teach this in our schools? They didn't in mine anyways.

They don't teach it because history is written by the unwashed, accidental victors. Realistically, disease was responsible for the fall of an estimated 98% of Native American population. Whenever you place large groups of people in confined spaces rapid disease spreading is the result, no matter the level of sanitation--which, compared to Europeans at the time, was much better-practiced among Native Americans. The disease was likely spread by the Europeans--though not intentionally. The Norse likely came to the "New World" first and were militarily outclassed and outmanned by the aboriginal people there, so they retreated back to their ships and little note was made of the encounter. Shortcut another hundred+ years and other Europeans start making tentative expeditions and discover drastically reduced populations. A lot of early European settlers also "went native" as well, seeing the much better living conditions of the Native Americans at the time.

Do I have any regrets/guilt? Welp, I'm alive because of all this. So no. I'd always keep in mind that RT, like all major media outlets, has its own agenda derived primarily from Russian oligarchies (not that they are completely bereft of truth).

At this point in history, we are all living on the backs of genocides, slavery, and trying not to be eaten by large predators before we began making ourselves miserable by plowing fields from dawn to dusk. Is it all right? Who is to say--it just is.

[davsel]

RT news (Russia Today) view is that what the North American early settlers did to the native aboriginals was nothing more than the worlds largest case of genocide. So basically the founding fathers made the Nazis look like amateurs. They almost completely obliterated an entire continent. How come they don't teach this in our schools? They didn't in mine anyways.

Perhaps because it is 100% false anti-American propaganda?

[KestrelBike]

Trust me, US public school kids are getting plenty of "white guilt" shoved down their throats regarding the Columbian Exchange.

[davsel]

National Guard called in.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-0...peline-protest