Ann Coulter is going through backlash for a violent comment about Native Individuals.
On Sunday, the far-right pundit reposted a video of College of Minnesota professor and Navajo Nation member Melanie Yazzie discussing decolonization and local weather change at a 2023 convention.
“We didn’t kill enough Indians,” Coulter wrote within the since-deleted publish.
The remark sparked swift condemnation from Indigenous leaders and others.
Chuck Hoskin Jr., principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, known as the publish “beyond abhorrent” and “dangerous hate speech” in a Fb assertion.
“Coulter’s statement, on its face, is a despicable rhetorical shot trained on the First Peoples of this continent, designed to dehumanize and diminish us and our ancestors and puts us at risk of further injury,” he wrote.
“We’ve faced enough of that since this country’s founding,” Hoskin continued. “This kind of rhetoric has fueled the destruction of tribes, their life ways, languages and cultures, the violation of treaty rights, and the perpetuation of violence and oppression.”
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Hoskin added how Coulter’s phrases did “not take place in a vacuum” however come amid an increase in assaults on marginalized folks, “used to score political points, to advance policy agendas, and sometimes to scare people to advance all of that and more.”
“The country frequently seems on the verge of political violence,” he wrote. “Coulter’s post implicitly encourages it.”
Although he acknowledged the temptation to disregard such rhetoric, Hoskin warned towards letting hate speech go unchecked.
“We can get used to the frequent attacks and watch silently as this group and that group is dehumanized and diminished,” he stated. “Hatred in the public will become white noise, accepted as ‘just the way it is.’ Alternatively, we can speak out against it.”
“What Ann Coulter said is heartless, vicious and should be repudiated by people of good faith regardless of political philosophy or party,” Hoskin continued. “Some things are simply wrong and we cannot validate it through our silence.”
Asking others to hitch him in talking up, he stated he remained “optimistic that people of good will across parties, faiths, philosophies, regions, races, political status can work to unify the country” and reject Coulter’s feedback.
Vice President of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes Tasha Mousseau additionally known as out Coulter for invoking a deeply dated colonial mindset.
“In Indian country, either in the Western sense with education or taking our traditions back and learning our languages, we say that we are our ancestors’ wildest dreams,” she advised Oklahoma’s KOSU public radio. “I would argue that she’s her ancestors’ wildest dreams. She is what colonizers would like to continue on in this country.”
Together with tribal leaders like Hoskin and Mousseau, the Oklahoma Democratic Celebration known as the publish “beyond disgusting” and known as folks to boycott Coulter in a press release which was reported by Native Information On-line.
