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YOUR FAVE IS ANTI NATIVE: Mary McNamara and the Los Angeles Times

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The Road To El Dorado #YourFaveIsAntiNative

Negative & racist depictions, tropes, and Stereotypes regarding Native Americans in Road to El Dorado.

Mayaincatec: The film homogenizes multiple Indigenous cultures cultures into one, specifically and mainly Maya and Nahua cultures, with the story being based on a mythical place set in Colombia.

Mighty Whitey: the basis of the film comes from the Spanish lie and myth that the Indigenous Aztec population worshipped them as gods, with the city of El Dorado doing the same with Miguel and Tulio, who use this to trick Native people to steal gold from them.

Oversexualized Native Woman: Chel’s character has overemphasis on her sex appeal and sexuality, with her character design being very revealing and exageratted on her chest, hips, and thighs. There is little to no exploration of her character outside of her sexuality and servitude towards the White characters. She does not pass the Aila Test and is a near opposite. Chel is a perfect example of how many Native female characters are sexualized

Evil Shaman: The Native religious leader Tzekel-Kan is demonized as evil & plays a heavier role as the main antagonist instead of the famed genocidal colonizer Hernan Cortez. Tzekel-Kan being enslaved by Cortez at the end is depicted as a “good ending”.

Demonized Spiritualiity: connected to the above, all scenes depicting traditional Mesoamerican spirituality/religion or practices are shown as evil, barbaric, savage, scary, and associated with the main antagonist.

White Saviors: El Dorado is saved by the main White protagonists, the idea to destroy the gates to the city is Tulio’s idea, the warriors of El Dorado are portrayed as helpless and no match for the Spanish conquistadors despite Indigenous Mexican warriors going toe to toe with them, and winning against them in various battles in real life.

Whitewashed Colonialism: Cortez, despite being one of the worst colonizers in history, serves as a minor, secondary antagonist & his evilness is only vaguely implied, and never explained why it (his actions) is bad. Cortez has the same goal as Miguel and Tulio (to steal gold from Indigenous people), but the protagonists aren’t shown as bad for doing it. Colonization is essentially excused (& is never explicitly named as harmful) as long as the colonizers are “nice” about it.

There’s likely some other stuff I’m missing but these are some of the big ones that are shown in this film, & its depictions of Indigenous Peoples are extremely harmful. I also don’t wanna see anybody trying to defend any of these with somehow implying “Well it’s not ACTUALLY racist or harmful because-” etc etc save it for a vague post and take our inability to see criticism of racism within a movie you like elsewhere.

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I'm going ot have this blog go back to focusing specifically on Native American / FIrst Nations characters being killed or surviving and transfer all the conversations about Anti-Native Racism to this blog: @antinativefaves

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Your Fave Is Anti Native: Kamala Harris

From Emmy Scott's Twitter.

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Grace Randolph #YourFaveIsAntiNative

She referred to Kahhori as "Tesseract Pocahontas" and said that since she had her episode in What If..? that we don't really need Echo because they're "too similar" and then blocked Native women who called her out for it.

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Carmen Cosplay #YourFaveIsAntiNative

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Your Fave Is Anti-Native: JD Vance

Acknowledging Indigenous people on their own territory isn't "sowing division" but anti-native racism by a white politician with a huge platform is.

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Jenny Nicholson #YourFaveIsAntiNative

From her video The Halloween Costumes Nobody Wanted.

She even explains why it's bad. "It's a stereotypical depiction of a racial group, it's sexualization, etc" so then why are you wearing it?

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The Twitter thread with the racist examples is here: https://x.com/AliNahdee/status/1766828351602221241?s=20

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#YourFaveIsAntiNative

Lollzz just saved princess Tiger Lily from Hooks crew! Her dad made me a chief cause I’m the best 💚 #peterpancosplay #peterpan #peterpantest #costest #peterpancostest #peterpancosplaytest #wigtest #chiefflyingeagle #neversmileatacrocodile #disney #disneycosplay #disneypeterpan

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Ezra Miller #YourFaveIsAntiNative

#BoycottTheFlash

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NFL / Kansas City Chiefs / Ezra Miller

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HARLAN CROW / CLARENCE THOMAS #YOURFAVEISANTINATIVE

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Bethany Mandel #YourFaveIsAntiNative

You may know her best as the conservative white woman who didn't know how to describe what "woke" meant despite writing an entire book about how it's allegedly indoctrinating our children. Or you may have known her from her opinion pieces where she encourages us to make friends with Nazis on the off chance that they'll stop being Nazis.

In her book Stolen Youth, she remembers Native Americans / Indigenous peoples just long enough to be racist:

I won't link to her book but instead will link to my Twitter where I reviewed the Free Sample that was provided via Amazon. That's all you'll really need to read anyways:

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Georgia State Patrol #YourFaveIsAntiNative

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Taylor Sheridan, Yellowstone, Wind River, 1923, 1883, #YourFaveIsAntiNative