And… largely (I think) because Mr. Hinderaker is no longer (apparently) mentally capable, of dissecting actual US legal developments (he’s been… 100 per cent mum, on all four blockbuster US Supreme Court decisions, this week — none of which really offered him any philosophical refuge)…

John returns (as I said he would, at the end of this post) to bashing efforts to modernize our language and nomenclature — to correct and largely excise the racist past history of how colonists uniformly mis-perceived, and thus mis-treated indigenous leaders they encountered.

As I predicted last night, John needs to join this battle — about what to call Native American leaders, because he knows the day is coming (perhaps as soon as later this summer, when the NFL presumably resumes playing actual football games)… when the Washington Redskins will face overwhelming pressure to change their team name and emblem.

John wastes inordinately vast amounts of time, and editorial pixels, on defending… things that don’t matter — like preserving racist high fructose corn syrup and fortified flour brands — and now, telling us that the application of thoughts of European royalty… actually were a valid lens through which to view the native peoples we stole this nation from.

Most glaringly, the notion of an “Indian princess” — as nothing like that term (drawn from European court life) actually existed, in that form, in Native life and local culture. And “Elder” was a better word than “Chief”. But it is (wildly inappropriately) important to John — to defend our cramped, racist prior views of a history we didn’t bother to actually understand — for a host of execrable reasons.

Onward… grinning at the doddering old fool he’s become….