Oh, wait, they’re Indians Native Americans First Peoples? Oh, that’s OK then.
Remember, folks, racism is wrong, except when it isn’t. Reading this article, it’s hard not to think of the spittle-flying rants one encounters on far-right sites and in the “Talkback” sections of, well, just about everywhere. Fear of “assimilation”? A desire to “protect” one’s “culture”? Yup. Pretty much indistinguishable from the arguments of any other breed of racist.
“Culture” is not genetic — believing that it is is one of the chief idiocies of racism. Nor should culture be “preserved” via force of law. Whether it’s the French trying to keep their language pure, or nations mandating a certain percentage of “natively produced” programs by shown on TV (even if no one watches them), or Mohawks or Klansmen trying to kick out people they don’t like, there’s no such thing as a right to a culture, a heritage, or a tradition — remembering that a “right” is “That which you are morally entitled to use lethal force to protect.” If your culture is being destroyed because another culture serves people’s needs better, then let that culture die.