https://twitter.com/_SaveOurStatues/status/1411013365103841283?s=20
Native kids found dead: That's unfortunate, but that was in the past. We're better now.
Statues destroyed: NOOOOOOOOOOOO, MY ENTIRE IDENTITY IS UNDER ATTACK NOOOOOOOOOOO
so australia obviously has a massive national boner for james cook, and i always learned "oh yeah the hawaiians treated him as a god because primitive savages in awe of the white man, but when he came back again in need of repairs that made it weird in their primitive savage religion so they murdered him for no reason like the primitive savages they were"
just looked at the wikipedia article out of interest and surprise surprise:
After a month's stay, Cook attempted to resume his exploration of the northern Pacific. Shortly after leaving Hawaii Island, however, Resolution's foremast broke, so the ships returned to Kealakekua Bay for repairs.
Tensions rose, and a number of quarrels broke out between the Europeans and Hawaiians at Kealakekua Bay, including the theft of wood from a burial ground under Cook's orders. An unknown group of Hawaiians took one of Cook's small boats. The evening when the cutter was taken, the people had become "insolent" even with threats to fire upon them. Cook attempted to kidnap and ransom the King of Hawaiʻi, Kalaniʻōpuʻu.
The following day, 14 February 1779, Cook marched through the village to retrieve the king. Cook took the king (aliʻi nui) by his own hand and led him away. One of Kalaniʻōpuʻu's favourite wives, Kanekapolei, and two chiefs approached the group as they were heading to the boats. They pleaded with the king not to go. An old kahuna (priest), chanting rapidly while holding out a coconut, attempted to distract Cook and his men as a large crowd began to form at the shore. At this point, the king began to understand that Cook was his enemy. As Cook turned his back to help launch the boats, he was struck on the head by the villagers and then stabbed to death as he fell on his face in the surf. He was first struck on the head with a club by a chief named Kalaimanokahoʻowaha or Kanaʻina (namesake of Charles Kana'ina) and then stabbed by one of the king's attendants, Nuaa. The Hawaiians carried his body away towards the back of the town, still visible to the ship through their spyglass. Four marines, Corporal James Thomas, Private Theophilus Hinks, Private Thomas Fatchett and Private John Allen, were also killed and two others were wounded in the confrontation.
Aftermath
The esteem which the islanders nevertheless held for Cook caused them to retain his body. Following their practice of the time, they prepared his body with funerary rituals usually reserved for the chiefs and highest elders of the society. The body was disembowelled and baked to facilitate removal of the flesh, and the bones were carefully cleaned for preservation as religious icons in a fashion somewhat reminiscent of the treatment of European saints in the Middle Ages. Some of Cook's remains, thus preserved, were eventually returned to his crew for a formal burial at sea.
so yeah actually when he came back he stole a bunch of wood from a fucking burial ground, when they retaliated by stealing one of his small boats his soldiers threatened to fire on them, and then he got stabbed trying to kidnap their fucking king like no fucking shit dipshit what did you think was going to happen. and then they still gave him the most respectful funeral honours and then returned the remains for a western burial at sea.
:ukkk: :aus-delenda-est: :kkkanada:
Obviously the idea of being "civilized" is itself highly politicized and barely a thing, but god damn the Hawaiians acted so much more civilized at every step than these assholes.
I hope that brutal process of disembowelment and removal of flesh was explained away by the Hawaiians as ahctually a very spiritual desecration of his body to preserve him as a saintly icon, when in reality they were just taking the piss and trying to make the europeo's shit in their paints.
A funny and good thing to picture, to be sure, but I also like the more serene idea that the Hawaiians were proving their lack of barbarism through this kind of respect, and by honoring his burial after they murdered him for desecrating a burial, they were making a point on their own terms.
"This is how it's done, take notes."
This is a pretty good bit. "Well well well, it seems the so called activists are now attacking me for my first degree murder conviction. See this was never about my Tax Evasion case."
Maybe if you didn't worship genocidal despots then you wouldn't have to worry about their statues being taken down.
The old Imperialism has now been replaced by an arrogant form of Woke Colonialism. They seek to colonize the social,spiritual,cultural and intellectual life of its target nations.
Lmao
"It's anything british. It's Canada itself."
This dumbass probably cries about Quebec whenever he hears it come up, i bet.
It's anything British. It's Canada itself.
:sicko-yes:
The loony left is doing mental gymnastics to connect the pure and spotless record of Captain Cook with the long shadow of colonialism!
Truly deranged!
Yo someone with a twitter account go bully this chucklefuck. Who gives a shit about statues?
The utter braonworms on display in this thread are truly something to behold.
