Edit: Meme has been slightly altered to be more accurate. Credit to @ininewcrow for the updated and better image.
this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2023
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It took me an embarrassing amount of time of self reflection to edit that ... the whole time I was thinking ... will people think this is racist, am I racist, am I reverse-racist, is that a thing? Should I laugh at my culture? Is that allowed? Should I allow myself?
So I just burned some sweetgrass, waved my hands at the sun and hit reply
I think I love you
Meanwhile, as a white guy I have no compunction against mocking white people every chance I get. Privilege, indeed.
mishtikooshoo .... this is word we use for white people in my language ... the root word is mishtik .. which means 'stick' or 'wood'
Adding the ooshoo at the end associates the root word to a group or to a people or a person
So the word literally translates as ... 'man with a stick' ... the silly stick they were holding in their hands and that was so important to them was the Christian cross
When you look at the Christian faith without any knowledge about who they are and what they do or why ... all you see is a 'man with a stick'
And It only gets worse when you know who they are and what they do. One wonders what they thought when they saw that they pray to not just the stick, but to a bloody man nailed to it.
So.. a stickman.