Liberal magazine editor triggered by culture appropriating ‘tomahawk missiles’ gets brutal mocking...or why reading Mother Jones is an exercise in ignorance.

Liberal magazine editor triggered by culture appropriating ‘tomahawk missiles’ gets brutal mocking

Chris Enloe  2 hours

A liberal magazine editor suggests Native Americans are offended by the name of a certain U.S. military missile. (U.S. Navy via Getty Images) 

Clara Jeffery, editor in chief of Mother Jones magazine, suggested over the weekend that the name given to the missiles that struck Syria last week — tomahawk missiles — represents a classic case of cultural appropriation.

Jeffery made the suggestion on Twitter Saturday when she said Native Americans must be “enraged” by the name.

“That the missiles are callled tomahawks must enrage a lot of Native Americans,” she wrote.

By definition, cultural appropriation is the use of “elements” from one culture by another. In this case, Jeffery is suggesting that because tomahawks are a classic Native American tool, Native Americans must be upset that the U.S. would name a missile after it.

That idea, most concluded, was just pure ridiculousness:

One person even hit back at Jeffery by making light of Massachusetts liberal Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s claim to be part Native American: 

While others just pointed out that the U.S. military likes to name things with Native American names:

Something the editor at Mother Jones should know...

conservitearin on Apr 9, 2017 11:39 am said:

 

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Hey Clara, between draining and charging d-cells, you might want to try this new thing
called researching a story, it might help your snide side swipes, but i doubt it. Nonetheless
here’s some facts fact for you snow flake:
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Tomahawks originated in North America among the Iroquoian and Algonquian Indians who used them as tools, weapons, and ceremonial pieces. The word comes from a transliteration of the Algonquin word for “to strike down.”
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The tomahawk was carried by American soldiers during the Revolutionary War (in fact, the Continental Congress required militiamen to carry either a tomahawk or a cutting sword), to chop wood, dress game, and yes, even to hew down a redcoat, ala Mel Gibson in The Patriot. Flintlock guns were unreliable and slow to reload, and the tomahawk made an excellent back-up weapon for hand-to-hand combat..
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H/T: http://www.artofmanliness.com/2011/08/03/how-to-throw-a-tomahawk/

Liberals suffer from total cognitive dissonance in they want diversity like accepting laws not based in western culture but won't integrate words from our own!