Toxic masculinity is okay, so long as it isn't white

Here's an astonishing piece from the National Post, discussing a white woman who spent years living with an Amazonian tribe.

Ruth Thomson, a one-time Toronto debutante, who knew how to curtsy — and also handle a gun, ride a horse, and live life without modern amenities – spent over 50-years working as a missionary with the Kayapo, a remote Amazon tribe.

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The Kayapo had a reputation for killing foreigners who strayed into their territory. They raided other tribes and took captives. They were warlike and proud.

Well, that'd doesn't sound too inclusive and diverse, does it? It rather sounds like toxic masculinity and slavery.

Some of the men carried rifles — expropriated from dead Brazilians. Others had bows and clubs, perfect for killing wild pigs or bashing in an enemy’s skull. Their faces were brilliantly painted.  

Toxic masculinity indeed. Nary a word of complaint from the author so far.

She has narrowly escaped death by anaconda, witnessed a villager get his finger bitten off by a piranha and been asked to bury a dead Brazilian on a beach — after her Kayapo hosts murdered the man for straying into their lands. 

So they murder people who enter their territory. Hmm. 

“The Kayapo of the 1960s were like the Sioux Indians in the 1840s and 1850s,” says Barbara Zimmerman, director of the Kayapo Project for the International Conservation Fund of Canada. “The frontier was moving in and they were a warrior culture. They were still regularly killing people, and by killing people, I mean people they viewed as a threat or had somehow trespassed on their land. They are not killing people as much now, although they still do.”

Again, murdering people who encroach. Xenophobia, anyone?

Like most cultures, the Kayapo are inherently ethnocentric: They think they are the greatest culture on Earth.  

Wait, what??

Most cultures are ethnocentric? That's not what we are told when the topic is white nationalism.

Fifty years ago they didn’t wear clothes. Now they call Thomson on their cellphones. 

Okay, so what we have here is a group of murderous, xenophobic, racist cultural supremacists. The embody toxic masculinity in all of its forms. Warlike, proud, ethnocentric.

Yet, did you hear a note of condemnation? No, the author seems quite content to engage in euphemisms. If this were a white tribe, you would never hear the end of it.