It reduces the culture of many tribes of Native Americans to a single caricature or mascot. There are a bunch of U.S. sports teams with Native American mascots and names, all of which are inappropriate, but were considered acceptable by most Americans until recently.
I have a cringey picture of myself as a 5-year-old in a Native American caricature costume, with feather, war paint, and fringed leather clothing.
I guess the closest European parallel would be dressing up as a Romani, although I think there are more positive stereotypes of the Native Americans than there are of the Romani.
Yeah, it’s not like it’s anything to do with actual Native American culture or practices or people. It’s a white caricature thereof, and it’s pretty disrespectful to people whose ancestors were slaughtered by our ancestors to prance around and pretend we’re them for fun. It’s not quite on the level of blackface, which is used explicitly to demean Black people, but it’s not much better.
I was doing pretty good with the purging until I bought a few thousand (like… five boxes?) Magic cards a couple months ago. Turned out profitably but now left with thousands of “bulk” that has some theoretical value that isn’t worth anyone’s time monetizing. It’s going to be painful for me tossing “usable cards”.
My parents store a bunch of their stuff in half a warehouse that’s now being sold so the next month is going to involve figuring out where to put a few tons of their old useless antiques and furniture… :((((
The one thing I am good at in regard to stuff is not buying stuff. The only real weakness I have is buying seeds and I do use them. I also save seeds but it doesn’t take up a great deal of space.
Oh man this reminded me that I have a “I knocked out a pro on FTP” tshirt buried somewhere. I was so excited when I won that for knocking out someone I had never heard of before. The good old days.