Domo 🦇 :they_them: :he_him: on Nostr: Maybe I'm alone on this, but I always thought Jane Goodall was kind of problematic. I ...

Maybe I'm alone on this, but I always thought Jane Goodall was kind of problematic. I felt the same way about the white girl who can talk to animals in the Wild Thornberries.

I'll throw in Steve Irwin too.

I felt like all of them took the spotlight from indigenous cultures. Like, respect for nature is the thing they all have in common, but they got way more attention than any people of color actually from the areas they worked in.

These white people go to colonize another location and then make it seem like they're special because they realized some animals have feelings and think like humans do. Or "maybe we don't murder everything that moves", and it's a huge deal, because white people like doing that, but...

The whole thing has always felt racist and strange.