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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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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Before Playboy was Playboy.


21 posted on 03/13/2018 6:25:37 AM PDT by Don Corleone
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

My memories of the SEARS catalog was the models wore black leotards with underwear on the outside of them.


22 posted on 03/13/2018 6:25:53 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Re-open the insane asylums, stop drugging the kids.)
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To: C19fan
So now we can depend on NG to show the world like someone else would like us to believe?

I dumped NG years ago.

23 posted on 03/13/2018 6:26:18 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Verginius Rufus

I have no friends left from the ‘80’s so I don’t know but suspect that many of them voted for the Kenyan muslim at least once. Liberal elite born and bred in Baltimore mostly.


24 posted on 03/13/2018 6:33:49 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: Don Corleone

The best Nat Geo years for bare bosoms were between 1920 and 1950. Balinese girls were the most beautiful, along with Polynesian women.

Nothing exploitative about it; these women were in their natural state, though it has been said that the only difference between Nat Geo & Playboy is that brown breasts are less sinful than white ones.

;^)


25 posted on 03/13/2018 6:35:20 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: boknows
#2: "The tribesmen are still savage and unintelligent."

You don't even have to travel to exotic locales to study them.
 

26 posted on 03/13/2018 6:35:30 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (CNN is fake news.)
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To: boknows

National Geographic never struck me as racist. Who knew!?


27 posted on 03/13/2018 6:54:52 AM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: C19fan

Western Culture is EEEEEEEEVIL and you should feel bad!


28 posted on 03/13/2018 7:09:01 AM PDT by 50sDad (A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here)
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To: C19fan

Western Culture is EEEEEEEEVIL and you should feel bad!


29 posted on 03/13/2018 7:09:03 AM PDT by 50sDad (A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here)
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To: C19fan

They’re calling the magazine BET now.


30 posted on 03/13/2018 7:29:43 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: C19fan

“Torpedo t1ts”


31 posted on 03/13/2018 7:48:57 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Democrats: the political party of the undead)
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To: C19fan

Was National Geographic lying then, or are they lying now?


32 posted on 03/13/2018 8:39:52 AM PDT by myerson
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To: C19fan

National Geographic was published for years in the US in Corinth, Mississippi. About 20 years ago they moved their printing operations overseas because it was cheaper. NG can go bankrupt for all I care as they are hypocrites.


33 posted on 03/13/2018 9:08:09 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Leep
Shouldn’t they be wearing animal skins and the like?

I am now 10% dumber after reading your post.
34 posted on 03/13/2018 9:29:31 AM PDT by LanaTurnerOverdrive ("I've done things in my life I'm not proud of. And the things I am proud of are disgusting.")
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To: C19fan

we can not allow the truth to be known....that we still have backwards, low IQ tribal people living on earth here in good old 2018.....


35 posted on 03/13/2018 9:30:51 AM PDT by cherry
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To: C19fan

I always thought it was racist when I was a kid. Black lady boobies were not the same as human boobies so you could find pictures of them in my Catholic school library. And you wouldn’t get in trouble with the nuns unless you showed them to your friends and laughed and pretended to squeeze them in the pictures. I got in trouble with the nuns.


36 posted on 03/13/2018 9:40:07 AM PDT by dead
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To: C19fan

They still insert global baloney as the reason for the animals dying off. I saw a show about Alaska where the shows star said that glaciers are shrinking everywhere then he said except here in this bay that threatens to be cut off by a growing glacier....
They want it both ways and of course tax money to “solve” the issue.


37 posted on 03/13/2018 9:54:55 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: LanaTurnerOverdrive

I don’t know if it will help but I was referring to more recent issues of Nat geo.
Post naked ubangi women issues.
Anyhow,it seems to me one loses their claim to be a fully indigenous person when you shop at big box stores.
Props to the indigenous people who live like your tribal ancestry.


38 posted on 03/13/2018 10:01:35 AM PDT by Leep (The dims better watch it..Trump is CRAZY!!)
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To: C19fan
...with its magazine portrayals of bare-breasted women and naive brown-skinned tribesmen as savage, unsophisticated and unintelligent.

I'm confused...

Were these people filmed unobtrusively in every-day surroundings performing every day rituals and practices?

If so, what was "racist" about that?

On the other hand, were they forced to dress scantily and prance around singing "Camptown Ladies" for American audiences? That would be a different matter, but I don't think that's what happened.

-PJ

39 posted on 03/13/2018 10:07:25 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: LanaTurnerOverdrive

Oops ..didn’t mean your Tribal ancestry.
Should be “their”


40 posted on 03/13/2018 10:12:13 AM PDT by Leep (The dims better watch it..Trump is CRAZY!!)
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