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[-] BunnyKnuckles@startrek.website 112 points 1 year ago
[-] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

To be fair aren't a lot of Mexicans actually native?

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

The link isn't about the actor, it's about the "Native American" consultant they hired to help with his character development that turned out to be a complete fraud.

[-] PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

You are correct. My Hispanic mother in law is about 60% native and there are some areas where she is from that the majority of the population is native. That being said, Beltran does not appear to be even remotely native.

[-] BunnyKnuckles@startrek.website 17 points 1 year ago

Robert Beltran is partially native but the OP and the article aren't about him.

[-] USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 70 points 1 year ago

Fuck Jackie Marks and the appropriating grift he rode in on.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 54 points 1 year ago

A similar thing happened (on a smaller scale) with the band Nightwish. Their song, Creek Mary's Blood, has a spoken word poem in Lakota. Except the man who speaks the poem in the song, and who translated it into Lakota, John Two-Hawks, is not registered with the Lakota as a member of the tribe. He's of mixed ancestry, but that's not necessarily a dealbreaker for the various tribes...

The poem, while containing actual words from the Lakota language, is apparently almost completely gibberish.

[-] BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Don’t forget Robert Beltran is a scab too!

[-] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago
[-] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I looked it up.

He went to a non-official startrek convention recently, during all these strikes. All the other star trek actors weren't allowed to/avoided talking about star trek directly because it is owned by a company they are striking against (with the exception of the animated shows I guess?). He apparently talked freely about startrek without any concern as though he doesn't care about the strike.

I was wondering too, because I was wondering how a well known actor "scabs" exactly, but this makes sense, he is still promoting the show, disregarding the strike rules and working class actors.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 13 points 1 year ago

Is that what screwed over Chakotay, or was it just that they never really gave him a lot to do so the actor got bored and began phoning it in?

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