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National Geographic acknowledges past racist coverage
AP ^ | March 12, 2018 | Jesse J. Holland

Posted on 03/13/2018 5:46:28 AM PDT by C19fan

National Geographic acknowledged on Monday that it covered the world through a racist lens for generations, with its magazine portrayals of bare-breasted women and naive brown-skinned tribesmen as savage, unsophisticated and unintelligent.

"We had to own our story to move beyond it," editor-in-chief Susan Goldberg told The Associated Press in an interview about the yellow-bordered magazine's April issue, which is devoted to race.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: anthropology; liberalmedia; natgeo; pc; race; racism
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Cultural Marxism has destroyed another venerable institution.
1 posted on 03/13/2018 5:46:28 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

The tribesmen are still savage and unintelligent.


2 posted on 03/13/2018 5:49:03 AM PDT by boknows
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Let’s see if another PC institution can commit financial suicide.


3 posted on 03/13/2018 5:49:27 AM PDT by txrefugee
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When I was a kid it was either National Geographic or the Sears catalog.


4 posted on 03/13/2018 5:49:45 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: C19fan

Future articles will be all about excursions into wild deplorable country, I’m sure.


5 posted on 03/13/2018 5:51:23 AM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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I loved the National Geographic. My parents subscribed well before I was born and there were old issues in our barn going way back. In the 1980’s, my then circle of people would scoff when I would mention that pets were eaten in some Asian countries. My redemption came from the National Geographic issue that featured the city of Seoul. As I recall, the centerfold was a great photo of an open air market in Seoul in which a well-dressed Korean businessman is holding an adorable puppy up by his front paws obviously inspecting it. The caption went something like “Kim inspects what might be the centerpiece of tonight’s family dinner.”


6 posted on 03/13/2018 5:52:14 AM PDT by VietVet876
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Ridiculous, and they do this as South Africa goes after white people?


7 posted on 03/13/2018 5:54:14 AM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped)
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It’s impossible to take a publication seriously which refer to the Barbarian Invasions of Rome as “the migration age”

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/barbarian-huns-dna-germany-migration-antiquity-skull/#close


8 posted on 03/13/2018 5:56:42 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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I remember when Jesse Jackson ran for President in 1984, a joke was going around that he had to drop out because a picture of his mother turned up in Nat Geo.


9 posted on 03/13/2018 5:57:23 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (Islamophobic? NO! IslamABHORic)
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To: C19fan

Good of them to now jump in. People are so sick of the PC BS.


10 posted on 03/13/2018 5:59:25 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Vision

Well, they do seem part of the same world view.


11 posted on 03/13/2018 6:00:29 AM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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Not unlike their coverage of the plight of “indigenous people”
Can’t help but notice many, if not all, of the so called indigenous people are wearing clothes that looks like it came from Walmart?
Shouldn’t they be wearing animal skins and the like?


12 posted on 03/13/2018 6:02:17 AM PDT by Leep (The dims better watch it..Trump is CRAZY!!)
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Not unlike their coverage of the plight of “indigenous people”
Can’t help but notice many, if not all, of the so called indigenous people are wearing clothes that looks like it came from Walmart?
Shouldn’t they be wearing animal skins and the like?


13 posted on 03/13/2018 6:02:23 AM PDT by Leep (The dims better watch it..Trump is CRAZY!!)
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"The coverage wasn't right before because it was told from an elite, white American point of view, and I think it speaks to exactly why we needed a diversity of storytellers," Goldberg said. "So we need photographers who are African-American and Native American because they are going to capture a different truth and maybe a more accurate story."

She was fine cashing her paychecks all these years. I think they needed some PR BS to get their name back out there so they started an apology edition.

14 posted on 03/13/2018 6:08:36 AM PDT by New Perspective (Proud father of a son with Down Syndrome and fighting to keep him off Obama's death panels.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Funny!


15 posted on 03/13/2018 6:10:11 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: C19fan

Who the hell cares?


16 posted on 03/13/2018 6:15:18 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: boknows

But (in the Congo) they have lighters and gasoline to burn each other to death more efficiently. Isn’t that more civilized?


17 posted on 03/13/2018 6:15:45 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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Just how was their depiction inaccurate? They were and are aboriginal people with nothing in the way of technical advancement, living as they have no doubt lived for many hundreds if not thousands of years.

Committing a big lie just because the truth isn’t as pretty as you’d like it to be is still a big lie.


18 posted on 03/13/2018 6:18:36 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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Another guilt ridden leftist crying and asking for forgiveness. In the meanwhile what NatGeo did prove was that certain races are just not equipped to operate in the modern world. Look how often computers break down in the luxury hotels in bush country and how hard it is to get a heart transplant when you need one in the Asian sub-continent....... oops


19 posted on 03/13/2018 6:22:28 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism us truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: VietVet876
How many of your friends from the 1980s later voted for a President who had eaten dog?

Puppy chow means something different in Korea than in the US.

20 posted on 03/13/2018 6:25:14 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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