Edmonton musician, studio teacher, arranger, composer.
Husband and dad of 3. Interests include city council, transportation, art, government, society; former science nerd.
It’s right there in the name: conservative.
Conserving what? The status quo, the way things have always been, the systems that created the winners and oppressions of the past.
Absolutely right not to trust them if you’ve found yourself and your people on the bottom of the wheel. I recognize my own privilege, and I can see that they will happily throw me under the bus too, just to stay on top.
I’m sorry but a lot of what you just wrote is contradicted by facts in the reporting… Buffy did *not* grow up on a reserve or in her ‘her tribe’s culture’, she grew up as a white girl in new england, and claims of indigenous origin didn’t appear until the 60s along with her growing musical career.
How to respond to or interpret those facts is up to the communities affected.
I understand what you are saying… the concern reported is essentially that ‘non-indigenous’ Buffy may have sucked up precious and very limited resources in a zero sum, dog-eat-dog arena without questioning why we accept a world in which support is so limited in the first place.
This is what they do: convince everyone everything is a matter of personal choice.
Tobacco: framed as personal choice
Transportation: personal choice
Climate response: choice
Public health / masking: choice-ified
Who does that serve? The wealthy and powerful, because a population that learns it can work together to solve problems and find solutions that make life better will eventually figure out that together we can solve the problem of *them*
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Conversations about appropriation and authenticity are always fraught, conflicted, and controversial because of two factors:
it is an inherently human thing to share and adopt ideas, practices, arts, and technologies with and between peoples.
modern society has decided that only certain people get the privilege of profit from them, guarded and gated by the force of coercive capitalism.