The degree to which history affects the present (and I’m not talking about the obvious causal sense of course), our knowledge of past events are a different matter which I’ve never brought up.
Remember, this all stemmed from @anon15383236’s ludicrous assertion that camping was a manifestation of white supremacist oppression, whatever the effects the past have on the present, they don’t include making camping racist. This is the kind of irrational gibberish that gives you identity politicians a bad name.
Please attend to the difference between saying that camping is racist (which I didn’t write) and saying that the overwhelming whiteness of those who camp in the U.S. reflects a white supremacist American history.
Do you usually have so much trouble digging under the surface of things?
It’s a white thing. A blithely white thing that’s actually problematic at its deeper core, which includes romanticizing of people’s decimated at the hands of white supremacy.
Not only is that completely nonsensical, again… camping, but frankly it’s pretty racist.
Teaching little white kids to pretend to be Native Americans was a real thing in America for a long time, from the various pseudo-Indianisms in the Boy Scout subculture to just “playing cowboys and Indians” in the school yard.
And so was teaching little white kids to pretend to be settlers. Look at me! I’m Kit Carson! Look at me! I’m Davey Crocket! Look at me! I’m Lewis and Clark. etc. etc.
“Scouting,” what is that, exactly? Scouting what? On behalf of whom?
I’ll tell you what: Camping is white people ritualistically re-enacting the colonization process. You never know when we might need to start over and conquer the whole thing again from scratch.
It’s really not, you do realise the world is bigger than America? That camping is as old as humanity itself, and recreational camping isn’t an American invention, and nor was it the sole preserve of scouting organisations?
