The actual article is hilarious: https://web.archive.org/web/20220920184537/https://www.mrctv.org/blog/racist-hulu-dramedy-reservation-dogs-depicts-white-people-removed-crackers
In the episode, the tribal officer (Zahn McClarnon), who goes by the name “Big,” accidentally ingests hallucinogenic drugs along with his friend “Kenny Boy” (Kirk Fox). As they stumble through the forest and experience hallucinations, they stumble upon a disturbing initiation ceremony involving white men being intimate with beheaded catfish. Because, as the show so often says, “white people":
Kinda makes me want to watch it now.
check it out, it's good. A lot of heart in there, in the best sense. Laughed a lot, cried a lot, heard one particular pastiche Indian say 'Aho, young warrior' in my mind for days. Good stuff
It's so fucking good and that episode is the one that inspired me to make this post.
I was actually just looking for the clip from that scene and stumbled into this article instead.
Don't these chuds genuinely believe that stuff like this happen at Bohemian Grove? Was Roosevelt not white lmao.
Wat. Did they watch the same show as I did? The writers do poke light-hearted fun at whites, but arguably they goof on native culture the most.
Reaching real hard in this article.
No, you see, the lesser races need to know their place. That is the problem the author of this article is having.
I've enjoyed it so far but have had to take a bit of a break. CW: untreated major depression is fairly central to the plot (at least season 1) and hit me pretty hard in the feelers.
Thanks! Growing up in the rural PNW and having close native friends, as well as having friends and family affected by major depression, some of whom terminally so or pushed into substance abuse, the series hits me on multiple levels and find that pretty beautiful but, emotionally pretty intense.
Yeah. As a guy who isn't usually too outwardly emotional (therapy is a process), when I found myself almost bawling, I realized that I needed to take a bit of a break.
The show is anything but exaggerated in its depiction of white people too. They fail to mention that Big (the tribal cop)'s friend is a white dude and there are plenty of white people that aren't evil capitalists like the people depicted in the cult-like secret society they are busting which is played for laughs and definitely not even as close to how actually horrifying some of those Klan cults really are.
Shit, one the main characters has a family friend played by Bill Burr, and he's the whitest fucker on the planet.
I wrote about what white people did to us today in my daily atrocity community. Complaining about us poking fun at white people's understandings of our culture is just not funny.
I'm not from Oklahoma or Minnesota, but I LOVE Reservation Dogs though, and highly recommend it to my comrades here. It's pretty much exactly like my reserve. The same dismal sense of hopelessness, and we have all the same characters. I was one of the kids who successfully managed to leave.
Based and saved (to watch later alongside way too many other stuff. I'm bad at this)
