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 (DIR) Post #AXBqGcyRGIrdjLOsb2 by tiotasram@kolektiva.social
       2023-06-29T16:26:59Z
       
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       People are getting pretty nostalgic over the end of #NationalGeographic, so it's a great time to remind everyone that the magazine has from its inception served the cause of colonialism in America. Portraying the American West as empty/wild is part of this, as are its many profiles of indigenous peoples across the globe which constantly portray them as "primitive" and as fundamentally destitute. Even its portrayal of nature as fundamentally separate from humans is something I can now understand as a colonialist mindset that fundamentally undermines positive human-animal relationships.