Look, I genuinely like Darryl Leroux. And I absolutely appreciate his sense of responsibility as someone who previously claimed Indigeneity for the very same reasons he now researches. He is not the first white dude academic doing Indigenous Studies work to be put through a legal process like this. But it IS his responsibility. I don’t always agree with him (altho I do with this situation lol), but that’s some accomplice shit he’s doing taking this hit as far as I’m concerned.
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To be clear, it’s not some secret cabal of Indigenous academics pulling string or anything like that (lmao hilarious if true tho), it’s really just allyship and taking responsibility. If you don’t want to read his work, take a look at the bibliography and who he’s citing.
Anyway, all that is to say that while Darryl’s just doing his job as a beneficiary of colonialism, if he has a legal fund I’ll be donating and I encourage folks to support him, or at least look into his work a little more.
One of the things that a lot of people really don’t get when the allege that Darryl is “arbitrating Indigenous identity” or whatever is that (aside from the fact that he’s actually arbitrating his fellow whites) he was essentially tasked to do this by Indigenous folks because it is not safe for us to do that work. And a lot of those folks were Métis, because back then ethnic frauds usually went with us because of race science about racial admixture.
Anyway, the Indigenous academics speaking publicly on it, and the women in particular of course, were getting the most frequent and intense shit, and people frankly were harassed out of speaking about ethnic fraud in any public way, sometimes out of doing public intellectual work entirely.
I can’t recall for sure if there was an explicit conversation in which it was agreed that Darryl would take this on bc he’s a white settler man, but that was certainly the understanding.
I know a lot of the Métis and (occasionally) First Nations academics who initially took point on the public ethnic fraud conversation many years ago with the various “eastern Métis groups,” Andrea Smith, etc. an holy shit the amount of hate and harassment they were getting was unbelievable. Death threats, human rights complaints, attempts to shut down talks. Hell, first time I ever saw Darryl was at the talk that landed him in Project Sitka and it was NOT radical material. Just early research.
Apparently broke my finger five weeks ago and now it’s decided to be a problem lol. And because of the general healthcare collapse I’m sitting in the friggin ER with the most pitiful injury ever. Like it’s getting worse at a rate that I definitely need to get it looked at right away but it’s a busted finger. It’s not that I want a gruesome injury, just something a little cooler.
Prof. Sam LawlerAny journalists want to write an article about all the environmental costs of the more than 10,000 Starlinks that are now in orbit? All I'm seeing are breathless articles mindlessly worshiping That Awful Billionaire for crossing the 10,000 satellite mark.
Every single one of those will come down in an uncontrolled reentry. That's a lot of metal in the atmosphere, and a lot of dice-rolling to see if any more pieces will make it to the ground.
SpaceX is truly awful.
AI psychosis more like holo-addiction, amirite
Of all the things Star Trek has predicted, this is the most embarrassing in both the series and in real life. The prescience, wow.
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