what can i say other then im very sarcastic and into dark humor, very cringy too. ummmmmm this is just a blog with anything and everything i guess. lots of fandom stuff too. im asexual and nonbinary. currently have 1 cat, need more. used to draw not so much any more, now i crochet. 420 blaze lol. aquarius.
Guy follow @bt-brokenthinker to see my cleaning journey. It’s basically me just rambling about all the cleaning and packing I need to do.
I’m a collector of sorts. buttons are my problem child, i have over 1,000, no i will not get help for this. funko pops, stickers, enamel pens, plushies ect….
i tried my hand at the famous 2010ish anime fanart style, for fun.
for the authentic experience, i had to listen to old nightcore songs while working on it. i think it helped.
it’s not perfect, but i think it came out alright for a first attempt.
Christmas Broppy!! 🎄💙🩷
I wish you a happy holidays guys!! 🎆✨🥰
You know what the most frustrating thing about the vegans throwing a fit over my “Humans aren’t Parasites” post is? I really wasn’t trying to make a point about animal agriculture. Honestly, the example about subsistence hunting isn’t the main point. That post was actually inspired by thoughts I’ve been having about the National Park system and environmentalist groups.
See, I LOVE the National Parks. I always have a pass. I got to multiple parks a year. I LOVE them, and always viewed them as this unambiguously GOOD thing. Like, the best thing America has done.
BUT, I just finished reading this book called “I am the Grand Canyon” all about the native Havasupai people and their fight to gain back their rights to the lands above the canyon rim. Historically, they spent the summer months farming in the canyon, and then the winter months hunter-gathering up above the rim. When their reservation was made though, they lost basically all rights to the rim land (They had limited grazing rights to some of it, but it was renewed year to year and always threatened, and it was a whole thing), leading to a century long fight to get it back.
And in that book there are a couple of really poignant anecdotes- one man talks about how park rangers would come harass them if they tried to collect pinon nuts too close to park land- worried that they would take too many pinon nuts that the squirrels wanted. Despite the fact that the Havasupai had harvested pinon nuts for thousands and thousands of years without ever…like…starving the squirrels.
There’s another anecdote of them seeing the park rangers hauling away the bodies of dozens of deer- killed in the park because of overpopulation- while the Havasupai had been banned from hunting. (Making them more and more reliant on government aid just to survive the winter months.)
They talk about how they would traditionally carve out these natural cisterns above the rim to catch rainwater, and how all the animals benefitted from this, but it was difficult to maintain those cisterns when their “ownership” of the land was so disputed.
So here you have examples of when people are forcibly separated from their ecosystem and how it hurts both those people and the ecosystem.
And then when the Havasupai finally got legislation before Congress to give them ownership of the rim land back- their biggest opponent was the Parks system and the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club (a big conservation group here in the US) ran a huge smear campaign against these people on the belief that any humans owning this land other than the park system (which aims at conservation, even while developing for recreation) was unacceptable.
And it all got me thinking about how, as much as I love the National Parks, there are times when its insistence that nature be left “untouched” (except, ya know, for recreation) can actually harm both the native people who have traditionally been part of those ecosystems AND potentially the ecosystems themselves. And I just think there’s a lot of nuance there about recognizing that there are ways for us to be in balance with nature, and that our environmentalism should respect that and push for sustainability over preserving “pristine” human-less landscapes. Removing ourselves from nature isn’t the answer.
But apparently the idea that subsistence hunting might actually not be a moral catastrophe really set the vegans off. Woopie.
#love seeing discussions about this#because everyone wants to see western conservation as infallible#without realizing that it’s still built on white supremacist and colonialist beliefs
Not every instance of a non-white people not getting their way is an example of ‘white supremacist colonialist’ beliefs. I’d wager that 99.9999% don’t fall into this category, and most woes of certain peoples fall into the category of “I created my own illness, and only government bucks can cure me”.
The OP gave one side of the story. It’s possible the other side is something really stupid, like bureaucracy and outdated rules keep (so and so) off their land. There’s also the possibility we aren’t getting a juicy story from the other side. I’d like to find out what the park rangers have to say. What if the deer carcasses had wasting disease? What if they have plenty of pinon nuts on their own side and don’t need to cross the boundaries?
It must be fascinating inside your head.
That you read this post, and thought to yourself “hmmmmmmm what if indigenous people literally being forced off their ancestral homeland and being FORCED to rely on government aid because they were legally barred from hunting and gathering actually had a perfectly reasonable and not racist reason, like PoC wanting government money to fix problems they made for themselves? (Which definately is a thing that happensand not exactly the opposite of this situation?) I’m going to completely make up a possible not racist reason, with no evidence, type that up, and present it as a rebuttal to a post about the importance of human involvement in sustainable environmentalism.”
Like. You haven’t read the book I’m describing, and this post isnt even really about white supremacy or colonialism. (It’s about how human involvement is an important aspect of sustainable environmental policy.) You have no fact based insight into the situation I described, and no personal experience with the historic Narional Park policy regarding the Havasupai.
But you were like “AH! But my headcanon theory about why the historical hardships of an indigenous group described in a book that I haven’t read and know nothing about says that actually this probably was totally fine.”
Just. Just take a moment to reflect on why that was your reaction. Regardless of how valid you think your point is, I want you to think about why it’s a point you even felt needed to be made.
Edit: …..they are a Trumper transphobe who posts sexy Pokémon fanart. 😆 🤣 😂 Fuck me.