Going to college enhances your views as a human being, but it doesn’t necessarily make you a better human being, maybe? I get the wording could make it seem like education is worthless, but I think it given the context, it’s saying you shouldn’t use that to score points in the who’s a better person game.

“I can eat anything, as long as it’s vegan” HAHA you are a saint, because that’s absurd

That is a meaningless statement. To cook vegan when you aren’t is definitely A Thing. Especially when it comes to remembering that incidental things you wouldn’t think twice about—like a sprinkle of Parmesan, for example—are a no-no.

No waitstaff wants to hear about your idiosyncratic dietary preferences! Just order what you can eat. Don’t make someone play a game of having to pick for you, a waiter doesn’t know all the ingredients of everything, or having to go running back to the chef to ask if pizza can be made with tofu instead of cheese.

I just googled her out of curiosity and found this. While she still seems like a terrible person, it seems reasonable that she sued in that specific instance. She was 19yo and the $50k/yr allowance given her by the trustees wouldn’t cover her college tuition, but because she had a $5m trust, she was ineligible for any…

I don’t disagree with your premise. The only reason I even have to hear about TS’s existence is because I read gossip sites and don’t listen to pop stations, so it isn’t like you can’t escape her. And I loved her testimony and counter-suit with that gross radio guy. I also think that the songs choruses are not similar…

I think that Jodie Foster is overly-romanticizing the era of a bygone movie industry. Hollywood has always relied on more on spectacle than substance.

Except DNA testing tells you nothing. It’s also very fallible. A set of triplets all got different answers. DNA testing may show Native DNA, but it doesn’t tell you what tribe, it doesn’t connect you, and you can’t get enrolled with a DNA test.

Exactly. In attempting to commit genocide against us, the federal government shoved us on reservations (prisoner of war camps) and took down every detail. Everything is recorded. Then they attempted genocide by attempting to ‘breed us out’, by fractions, hoping we’d eventually ‘disappear’ in the math. That has not…

lol. I looked this chick up. According to Wikipedia, she’s not even a real Pussycat Doll!

Even if you’re not connected to your parent’s tribe, the one thing you know is its name.

If she isn’t lying, she needs to reconnect with her father’s community before trying to speak for them.

Not to mention that the vast majority of Mexicans are of at least partial indigenous background, and those arriving here, seeking work, are often fully indigenous. In the Bay Area city in which I used to live, there are as many indigenous Mayan speakers as there are native Spanish speakers.

That is absolutely not what is happening here. The article has done a poor job of explaining the issue. I am not Indigenous, but I follow a number of the people who have been calling her out. Here’s a better explanation:

Yep. Younger people tend to forget they were born into this world that was shaped by people of Cher’s generation. People who had to fight to get where we are today, people who held racist, sexist, homophobic views who have changed with exposure and education. Hell not even just Cher’s lifetime. In my lifetime. Just…

Yup. I’m from Oklahoma which has the second largest Native American population after California, and none of them live on reservations. Granted we haven’t had reservations here since before we were granted statehood in 1907, which isn’t the case for some other southwestern states, but the idea that every full blooded…

True. Half Breed (and Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves) could absolutely NOT be made today, but 40 years ago, people were completely clueless about cultural appropriation/sensitivity.

I’m not going to even try to unpick the Cher stuff because that’s just a clusterfuck of already hot topics, though I will say that it shouldn’t be so hard to understand that while something was acceptable at the time it doesn’t mean it’s acceptable now and that idea doesn’t detract from any earlier significance it may…

In 1973 that song felt like a revolutionary anti-prejudice anthem. My cousin and I were scandalized when my aunt made up her own verse: “Just because I scalped the other kids in the class. What’s the matter with those people? They’ve got their brass.”

(1) Cher should absolutely apologize for Half Breed, EVEN THOUGH it was in the ‘70s, even though education about cultural appropriations and the Cherokee Princess mythos wasn’t as widespread as it is today.