CNN asked his reps about the claims of cannibalism and their response was boot licking and referencing Trump lol

  • worlds_okayest_mech_pilot [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    reddit-logo libs defending this by saying "he's just telling a family story!"

    If my family told me a relative was eaten by cannibals, I'd say that sounds stupid as hell, made-up, and that I wouldn't be repeating that nonsense. But I'm not the 81-year-old leader of the United States, so shrug-outta-hecks

  • chungusamonugs [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    I simply don't make racist generalizations about countries I know nothing about and have never been to, but I guess I'm built different.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      Trump would've said something even more racist! We have to vote for Biden so we can push him left!

      edit: this is unrelated but holy smokes radlibs are so incredibly stupid... found this in the reddit thread for that tweet on the vaushite teenager sub

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      It's like they are completely incapable of understanding how useless they've become by only believing in change through electoralism and the democratic party, but they still call themselves leftists because... they're chasers? What actual substantial difference is there between these people and KHivers? Just aesthetics?

      • Redcuban1959 [any]
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        8 months ago

        the vaushite teenager sub

        I saw that reddit post, the original picture have the flag of Palestine. When people said they can't turn a blind eye to genocide, the radlibs basically said that every president in the US needs to do or support genocide so they shouldn't care.

        Then when people said they should organize and change things like during the Civil Rights, Women Suffrage and to end the Vietnam War and Iraq War. The radlibs say that organizing is too radical and violent and that no one is actually going to do that in real life because voting is easier.

    • charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      I think it's hilarious that he thought that if he just went there and asked, that they'd have sold him a totem of significant spiritual and cultural importance, and then he got got. Though the story of how the story even came out of the cannibalism is why you shouldn't ever trust white anthropologists that promise to never share what you tell them because after the dude got the trust of the tribe and someone told him "the true story" he immediately used it to sell his book.

      • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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        8 months ago

        you shouldn't ever trust white anthropologists

        I didn't know about the dangers of anthropologists until I read a novel by Chinua Achebe (my teacher was a white South African who was fiercely anti-apartheid and hugely pro-Nelson Mandela, and they pointed me in the direction of one of this guy's books) and had a teacher of mine explain the behaviors of white anthropologists in Africa. The novel itself probably didn't delve into white anthropolists specifically, but getting my hands on this book got me into some very enlightening discussions with my teacher at a time where if not for this teacher I would've had zero interest in social/colonialist developments around the world.

        I've always found as a concept in novels, the idea of meeting different cultures and getting to meet people from vastly different ways of life to be fascinating (my family were never xenophobic; they always found people and cultures from every part of the world (yes, I'm talking non-Western) fascinating and never believed in the silliness that some cultures were out to get us); the idea of anthropologists using such an awesome seeming position to do so much harm, to betray people who have no desire to be suspicious of them, repulses me deeply. What astronauts are to most people is what anthropology is to me, and I despise people who've poisoned this well with, frankly, some of the worst excesses of capitalism.

    • Ossay [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      there was nothing ever confirmed iirc. he might have just drowned while trying to swim to the shore

  • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    It's racist as hell, but just blurting out to the media that your uncle was eaten by cannibals is also insane and funny in a way that competes with Trump.

  • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    Finnegan’s plane, an A-20 Havoc headed to New Guinea on a courier flight, was “forced to ditch in the ocean” off the coast of the island “for unknown reasons.”

    Finnegan sank kelly

  • CreamarySteamary [none/use name]
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    8 months ago

    "They picked his bones clean, Jack! That's how it was back then. Hell, even in Scranton, you get off on the wrong exit, you make the wrong right turn and you're gonna end up in some Mennonite forest camp and all of a sudden they're suckin' the marrow right out of your femur! Boilin' the flesh off your skull so they can drink soup out of it! And I'm the guy that put a stop to it! I went right up to them and said now wait a minute you Anabaptist sissies, you...naw, I shouldn't say that. I'm gonna get in trouble if I say that."