In a Wednesday article, the Associated Press not only held conservatives responsible for the resignation of Harvard University President Claudine Gay, who was found to have plagiarized academic papers nearly 50 times, but also claimed that “white settlers” They also claimed that they were defrauding Native Americans. — claims that it was later stealth edited.
When this article was first published, it said that conservative activist Christopher Rufo, who had been investigating Gaye's plagiarism, wrote a post on X titled “SCALPED” to celebrate Gaye's resignation. Ta. This term is often used colloquially by journalists when their reporting leads to someone resigning or being fired. .
But the Associated Press reported that Rufo used the term to describe gays as “trophies of violence” and “to cite the gruesome practices of white settlers seeking to exterminate Native Americans.” I wrote that I was hinting.
You may think that there is nothing beyond the headline in the article, but in reality there is @APdefinition of scalping. https://t.co/BaC9cJaBjs pic.twitter.com/WORZ2IqISp
— John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) January 3, 2024
As Breitbart News' John Nolte pointed out, scalping was more of a “well-known American Indian practice.”
In fact, Britannica, which publishes the Encyclopedia Britannica and owns American dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster, has a record on its website of how widespread bullion was before colonial contact. Although stated to be “unrevealed,” various Native American tribes are listed and engaged in the practice:
The importance and practice of scalping varies by region. Native Americans of the Southeast achieved the status of warriors, Soothes Most northeastern tribes, on the other hand, valued capturing prisoners more than scalps.between plains indian Scalps were harvested for war honor, often from living victims. Some Native Americans shaved their heads as a challenge to their enemies. Scalps were sometimes offered as ritual sacrifices, preserved and carried by women in victory scalp dances, later kept as pendants by warriors, used as tribal medicine, or discarded.
The Associated Press later secretly edited the story, a practice known as “stealth editing,” adding that scalping “was also used by some tribes against their enemies.” But he maintained that scalpers were “a gruesome act of white settler action” against Native Americans.
Victory: Following the massive ridicule of X, the Associated Press stealthly edited the story to point out that Native Americans were big colonial scalpers. pic.twitter.com/xBssrSeo6r
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) January 3, 2024
As Breitbart News pointed out, one of the article's authors repeatedly made derogatory posts about “white people” and “white privilege.”
feel a personal stake in one of the authors pic.twitter.com/InFKWUlGvh
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) January 3, 2024
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