tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post4089775433519682569..comments2024-02-10T18:19:36.406-08:00Comments on Newspaper Rock: Indians in Hell on WheelsRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-22108891874707714562011-11-09T16:05:09.342-08:002011-11-09T16:05:09.342-08:00I understand why the 19th-century characters would...I understand why the 19th-century characters would be racist, but the show itself seems to have a racist attitude. Where's the Native side of the equation? This show was filmed in 2011, so it has no excuse for being one-sided.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-70892124442005088082011-11-09T09:20:12.126-08:002011-11-09T09:20:12.126-08:00Well, Mark Twain was ridiculously prejudiced again...Well, Mark Twain was ridiculously prejudiced against Indians, to the point that the big bad in <i>Tom Sawyer</i> was named Injun Joe, but <i>Huckleberry Finn</i> is basically about the <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ToBeLawfulOrGood" rel="nofollow">To Be Lawful Or Good</a> aspect of slavery. (Naturally, in the Cowboy Bebop At His Computer way these things work, people complained about the latter book.) Charles Darwin ranked the Fuegians as "among the lowest rank of humanity" while discrediting polygenesis and being shocked that his native England had slaves not many decades before after seeing a man in Brazil abuse his slave.<br /><br />But for the most part, people in the 19th century were just racist assholes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com