Native Americans prefer 'Indians'

As told 23

“I much prefer to be called Indians because in this way my name is at least a monument to white man's stupidity”
1:56:09 The Animal Doesn’t Exist2011-12-16 · 1:57:52

“At least if I'm called Indian, my name is a monument to white man's stupidity, you know, who thought they are in India”
1:37:50 Are Catastrophes Virtual?2010-10-13 · 1:41:41

“We much prefer to be Indians, at least our name is a monument to white man's stupidity who thought they are in India.”
45:46 Coronavirus, Black Lives Matter, and Revolution2020-06-11 · 57:35

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 5 jobsuses

X without X ×3 identity politics ×3 authentic multiculturalism ×3 political correctness ×2 liberal racist trap ×2

Its cast and sources

populated by

Malcolm X9 Salman Rushdie4 Alexis Tsipras6 Jean-Pierre Dupuy9 Hillary Clinton5 Mangosuthu Buthelezi3 Narendra Modi6 Bernie Sanders13

alongside works

Roots6 V for Vendetta6 Malcolm X (film)3 The X-Files3 Elysium4 The Hunger Games4 Brazil3 Trouble in Paradise3

Told together with

17% Reagan and Holocaust-denial dinner guests 4 shared talks 14% V for Vendetta morning after 6 shared talks 13% Apartheid justified in multiculturalist terms 4 shared talks 12% Stalin's dialectical synthesis on money in communism 4 shared talks 12% Christ heals the wound / Mary Magdalene 3 shared talks 12% Salman Rushdie, Dickens and Austen as great Indian writers 3 shared talks 10% Srebrenica 'with or without bones' land joke 3 shared talks 10% Haiti Revolution 3 shared talks 10% Stalin joins the applause 4 shared talks 10% Bakhtin and the Stalinist Purges 3 shared talks 10% Malcolm X and the loss of roots as emancipatory starting point 4 shared talks 9% Da Vinci Code / Da Vinci, sex displaced onto Jesus 3 shared talks

Every retelling 23

1:56:09 The Animal Doesn’t Exist2011-12-16 · 1:57:52

A Native American man in Missoula, Montana told Žižek he prefers 'Indian' over 'Native American' because 'at least that is a monument to white man's stupidity', and proceeded to demolish the left-liberal image of indigenous people as ecologically holistic, saying they burned more forests and killed more buffalo than any white person., illustrating decaffeinated other,left-liberal anthropomorphism,ideology of ecological noble savage

1:37:50 Are Catastrophes Virtual?2010-10-13 · 1:41:41

In Missoula, Montana, Žižek meets a Native American man who prefers 'Indian' to 'Native American' because at least 'Indian' is a monument to white man's stupidity (Columbus thinking he was in India), whereas 'Native American' implies closeness to nature while whites are culture, the worst form of racism., illustrating white liberal guilt,ideology of multiculturalism,the white liberal need to be top bad guys

45:46 Coronavirus, Black Lives Matter, and Revolution2020-06-11 · 57:35

A Native American told Žižek he prefers 'Indian' to 'Native American' because at least the name is a monument to the white man's stupidity, Columbus thought he was in India., illustrating critique of liberal renaming and political correctness,self-determination vs. paternalism

1:20:02 Can One Really Tolerate A Neighbor?2006-11-19 · 1:50:41

A Native American told Žižek he prefers 'Indian' to 'Native American' because 'Indian' is at least 'a monument to white stupidity', whereas 'Native American' implies the others are cultural Americans and he is part of nature., illustrating culturalization of politics,liberalism and racism,false universality

21:40 Slavoj Žižek & Ash Sarkar - In conversation2024-03-25 · 1:08:04

A Native American friend in Missoula, Montana 30 years ago said he preferred 'Indian' because the name is at least a symbol of the stupidity of white people who thought they were in India., illustrating liberalism-political-correctness

1:19:15 Was will Europa?2014-12-20 · 2:24:57

Native Americans Žižek met in Missoula, Montana, said they prefer 'Indian' because 'Native American' is potentially more racist (native = nature, you = culture), while 'Indian' at least memorializes white man's stupidity. They also boasted they destroyed more buffaloes than any white man could, resisting the patronizing myth of ecological natives., illustrating left-wing self-guilt,patronizing anti-racism,universalism vs. identity