Comments by "J Nagarya" (@jnagarya519) on "'Pretendian' Caught After Decades of False Indigenous Ancestry Claims | Buffy Sainte-Marie Analysis" video.

Interesting that she doesn't at all look "Italian" or "English" (if she was born in the United States, she isn't "Italian" or "English"), but certainly looks like an indigenous. Perhaps her parents were the liars.
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The FACT is that she is a talented singer and performer.
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Then that must be true of all film actors or anyone who changes their name and "origin story".
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Cute name-calling. When will you be old enough to go to school?
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@bruce8321 Pride is based on individual accomplishment by means of one's own efforts. Accident of birth as to where that happened is not something of which to be proud.
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@Rhonda_Maldonado_61824 Minorities -- real or "fake" -- are always distrusted, primarily because attempting to be treated as equals. And because motivated to seek unethical advantage over others, those who suspect minorities are actually assuming that everyone else is the same as themselves. And there are those who seek to destroy minorities who are successful.
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@julietfischer5056 "Changing one's name is hardly in the same category as deliberately pretending to be someone else." Actors are paid to pretend to be someone else. As for writers: "Mark Twain" was a false persona created by Samuel Clemens. He only confessed to that fact very late in life. And the rest of us are different in public than we are in real life. And I note that nothing was said in observation of the FACT that she is a talented musician, singer, and writer.
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@jim2376 I'm waiting for the fault-finders to admit that they share the same faults with those they attack for having those faults. Your consistent fault thus far is avoidance of the issue -- which is intellectually dishonest. So you are faulty when it concerns ETHICS. Your position doesn't allow attacking others as concerns ethics -- the doing of which is the ethical and moral fault of HYPOCRISY.
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Most people when they hit their teens deny their parents and family. It's a normal part of becoming an individual.
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@jessestewart169 If born in the United States then she wasn't born in Italy or England, therefore isn't Italian or English. That's how national sovereignty and citizenship works.
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@auntarctica2025 And you comment on public fora because you AVOID attention? I'm not misconstruing HISTORY, and the HOSTILITY to IMMIGRANTS BY IMMIGRANTS, and the baseless HATREDS of the marginalized.
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@sabrinaa1235 Do you live in Italy?
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That isn't done in the Americas. And I doubt the rationale for the "support" is different in Australia: guilt -- but with strings attached.
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@originalsusser Separatists want treaties -- not the protections -- and responsibilities -- that come with being included in the Constitution -- the supreme law of the land -- with everyone else. And the separatism is typically based on racism. Show me a British colony that didn't establish a systemically racist colonialism and I'll show you a colony not established by the British.
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@Dandelionfleur And YOU NEVER lie. But are you also talented?
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@julietfischer5056 You assume too much, and assume to much about me. Everyone plays a role with others; we are shocked to discover that "I thought I knew you!" I'm not defending her; but not a word about the fact that she is more talented (including the invention of a "story" about herself) than many of her contemporaries is a significant omission. And indicator of bias.
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@oakmaiden2133 Are you the same person with others as you are when no one else is around? No, you are not.
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@oakmaiden2133 I'll bet you're polite at times you don't want to be. Isn't that lying?
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@davidedwards3838 I don't do fakes. But I do challenge those who are appalled and shocked and judgmental of lying by others with no self-awareness about their own dishonesties.
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@jim2376 You mean I shouldn't remind other humans that they aren't perfect?
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@jim2376 Can you -- and they -- afford to be judgmental of others as if you -- and they -- are without the exact same flaws? I'll add that it's always white folks who question the ethnic and or racial identity of marginalized minorities, but never do they get so obsessive and invasive about themselves or their fellow white folk. Always the effort to discredit those who are insufficiently white. Because whites are presumptively perfect therefore exempt from (SELF-)scrutiny.
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@jim2376 The judgmentalism shows a lack of self-awareness. That you don't like the response does not mean they are unresponsive. You're simply avoiding the issue. I suggest you take some time off and think about how often you present yourself to others in ways that are dishonest.
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@ItsAllOptics I suspect she was only thinking of forging a unique identity for herself distinct from such as Joan Baez and the few other female folk singers of the time. What is all this concern with "race" from people who are opposed to racism -- but only the racism in OTHERS THAN THEMSELVES? WW II in Europe was begun by a person who based everything on racial "pure bloodism". And the result was a bloodbath. And that's what we're seeing here: "I'M pure blood -- how DARE SHE pretend to be PURE BLOOD!?"
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@saphire9823 We can always rely on "They". I mean, "They" never lie, and they can certainly be determined to exist.
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@bonnie_gail Ever notice how racist white people are always jumping on minorities with efforts to discredit them? And at the same time they seem to be the most concerned with bragging about their own "ethnicity," even when that is false. I've known, as example, so many individuals born in the United States who claim to be -- instead -- "Irish" or "Italian". Check yourself out.
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@Coffeedrinker291 Artists are automagically viewed as "not normal". But what do those know who hold that view that qualifies them to make that judgment? But I get it: one must conform to what one IMAGINES is the "majority".
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@auntarctica2025 And you never lie -- not then, not now.
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@auntarctica2025 Direct personal experience and observation. Where are YOUR statistics?
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@auntarctica2025 You introduced the issue of "statistics". I asked you to produce yours. Yes, you do lie: when you don't feel like being nice to a person but choose to be nice to them you are lying. I suggest you explore the word "lying" for its fuller dimensions beyond DENIAL.
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I knew lots of phonies while in high school. How about you?
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@johnnyearp52 Why are white folk so obsessed with questioning the "authenticity" of minorities -- but never of themselves? That's the core issue here: it is political --about RACISM. And we especially see it when whites disapprove of the politics of the minority. At the time the right-wing objected to Brando's political position, so sought a means to discredit that position. They do the same today in defense of the least authentic of celebrities TRUMP -- everyone else is attacked for telling the truth about career felon TRUMP. But it's much more "thrilling" to be distracted into going after a marginalized minority in order to discredit them. Look at the status of actual Native Americans in the US and you can see the hate behind the attack; it is meant to discredit claims and position/s of ALL ACTUAL Native Americans. The same was done to Senator Elizabeth Warren -- anyone who claims Native American ancestry is targeted for attack.
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@dougrogan379 And you white folks all become bookkeepers when it comes to making up for the arsenic pudding clearing of the land of the indigenous peoples who continue to be your racial inferiors. After all, they still owe you at least a pound of flesh each for your having gifted them with civilization.
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@@AquaFyre And we can be certain that white Australians reject their historic privileges over the "darkies" they are now so stringently observing for "advantages" which the continuing racism wants cut off. We're all for gifting out civilization to those who have been oppressed -- so long as it doesn't cost us white folks any MONEY, which is of course essential to undoing the harm done by the several hundred years of racist oppression. It's the same in Canada (which is digging up anonymous graves of children segregated into "Indian" schools designed to strip them of everything that makes them other than "white"). And in the US: sure, you were enslaved and deprived of agency and assets, and post-slavery you've been subject to equivalent of slavery, which continues, but NO REPARATIONS!
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@originalsusser We get the same white supremacist squealing by the "victims" of equality for ALL before the law. We even have a right-wing extremism that labels enforcement of the law against them ALSO as being "fascism". See as most prominent example Trump and his supporters. Trump, the proclaimed multi-billionaire is a "victim" of "oppression" despite his hiring a whole crowd of lawyers, while 99 per cent of his "victimizers" can't afford even one lawyer. They're equivalent of tax protesters: they didn't "agree" to the Constitution and laws, so exempt themselves from the costs -- but not the rights and privileges -- for civil society. "Sovereign" entitlement and exemption from the rule of law. I've been fed up with the white supremacist whining about being "victims" since third grade; and I'm now 75.
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@originalsusser And no one ever investigates the histories of the white COLONISTS of "Australia" that is so diligently invasive as to the histories of indigenous "Australians". It's amazing how white supremacists constantly call themselves out -- and not only because of their maniacal obsession with whether non-whites are actually and legitimately non-white. As if their actual objection is that their racism shouldn't cost them their historic and continuing social and economic advantages or -- above all -- financially. What the heck, it's the white colonists who had to foot the bill for all the arsenic pudding used to clear the land of the undesirables/indigenous. It's all about keeping the indigenous in their subordinate "place".
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@wendybond2848 Same stuff happens in the United States: the right-wing is manically obsessed with "illegal immigrants" while "studiously" (spelled "stupidly") ignoring the fact that the colonies that became the United States were founded on lands given to colonists by the English king -- even though the English king didn't own the lands he was giving away, and even though English law would define that action as illegal theft. In short, they ignore the fact that they are descendants of illegal immigrants.
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@yvonnerolley9676 To which I've referred -- and I'm in the US, which -- if one awakes and pays attention -- teaches what systemic racism looks like. People of color are always suspect, and constantly accused without a shred of evidence other than the racism behind the accusation.
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@originalsusser "Only ignorant latte sipping inner city types voted yes". Another right-wing bigot against his perceived SUPERIORS.
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