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L. Falen et. al.<BR>
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You must be joking that you did not understand the racist implications of that joke?<BR>
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The poor use of the English language, the historical associations between buffalo and Native Americans, and the way the buffalo was senselessly killed, all posit the actor in this joke in the light of an unflattering, ironic and cruel stereotype of a Native American.<BR>
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No response that I read on V2020 (I apologize if I missed something) addressed critical historical facts that are relevant to why this joke was so insensitive and cruel.<BR>
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The huge buffalo herds that once roamed areas of North America, helping to sustain some Native American cultures, were wiped out by the invading conquering genocidal Europeans, in part to deliberately remove a source of food, etc., from the indigenous population.<BR>
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I would rather have read that joke spoken by a crude "white" man from Europe with poor language skills, considering this sort of character is at least one sort who might have been involved in the massive ugly slaughter of Buffalo committed by Europeans in the old west. They killed buffalo from the comfort of trains by the thousands and left them to rot!<BR>
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I imagine that some Native Americans reading that joke would be very sad and angry to see a Native American being portrayed as a senseless killer of an animal that once sustained the true discoverers of this continent, especially considering that the buffalo were wiped out by Europeans in part to destroy some native cultures, as they committed horrendous human rights violations against Native Americans.<BR>
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What ugly and cruel irony is contained in that joke!<BR>
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By the way, for those who unthinkingly use the term "Indian," it is a misnomer created by the ignorant invading genocidal European's who thought they had discovered India.<BR>
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Ted Moffett</FONT></HTML>