Admiral Ackbar tried to warn us!I've written before on the Ho-Chunk nation here in Wisconsin, and their charming PR campaigns on the local progressive radio station.
I love those things, as a fan of well produced propaganda.
Anyway, the Ho-Chunk operate several casino properties here in Wisconsin, the source of money they use, amongst other things, to sponsor radio I like to hear and propaganda that I love to listen to.
The casino part, these days, is not that out of the norm.
Their advertising for the casinos though, is something special.
Take a look at this Ho-Chunk Casino ad that has been floating around town on billboards for months now and tell me what you think:
Now, ok, I'm a white guy. I'm keenly aware that my ancestors perpetrated, then profited from, arguably history's most successful genocide (Australian Aborigines might contest that one).
So when I see a very large advertisement from a group of surviving Native Americans, encouraging me to come to their facility to enjoy myself, with the tagline 'It's Your Turn!'....
Yeah. Is it just me, or is that, in fact, more ominous than inviting?
It leads me to ponder certain scenarios in my blackly cynical imagination...
"Come on in Whitey! It's Your Turn! *ka-thud*"
"We're really good sports about your ancestors stealing an entire continent in a centuries long holocaust! Mind turning your back? We have... a surprise... for you! It might be cake!"
"Come for the blackjack, stay for the complimentary blankets!"
I love those things, as a fan of well produced propaganda.
Anyway, the Ho-Chunk operate several casino properties here in Wisconsin, the source of money they use, amongst other things, to sponsor radio I like to hear and propaganda that I love to listen to.
The casino part, these days, is not that out of the norm.
Their advertising for the casinos though, is something special.
Take a look at this Ho-Chunk Casino ad that has been floating around town on billboards for months now and tell me what you think:
Now, ok, I'm a white guy. I'm keenly aware that my ancestors perpetrated, then profited from, arguably history's most successful genocide (Australian Aborigines might contest that one).
So when I see a very large advertisement from a group of surviving Native Americans, encouraging me to come to their facility to enjoy myself, with the tagline 'It's Your Turn!'....
Yeah. Is it just me, or is that, in fact, more ominous than inviting?
It leads me to ponder certain scenarios in my blackly cynical imagination...
"Come on in Whitey! It's Your Turn! *ka-thud*"
"We're really good sports about your ancestors stealing an entire continent in a centuries long holocaust! Mind turning your back? We have... a surprise... for you! It might be cake!"
"Come for the blackjack, stay for the complimentary blankets!"
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