In a recent editorial, Our View: Place names Choose the parts of history to honor, the Mankato Free Press editorial board noted local state representative Jeremy Munson's tasteless Bde Maka Ska/bidet crack on Almanac:
In that context, let us note that Rep. Jeremy Munson, R-Lake Crystal, went on TPT’s “Almanac” on Friday to defend the Calhoun name and apparently thought it advanced the discussion to make a smirking bathroom pun off the Bde Maka Ska name. That’s an approach befitting a third grader, not a state representative.
There's that. Bluestem observed in Random white guy with an opinion on PBS thinks Sioux & Dakota fought war against each other that Munson's profound ignorance about the Dakota people--he observed off the bat that the Dakota had displaced the Sioux from the shores of Bde Maka Ska, not realizing that both terms are names for the same tribal nation--made us wonder what it took to get on Almanac to say ill-informed and vulgar things about indigenous Minnesotans.
The Mankato Free Press is South Central Minnesota's news leader, and likely the paper with the largest circulation in Munson's district.
Screengrab: Munson espousing his opinions about indigenous history on Almanac. Why was he paired with someone who could cite law, the facts of the recent recovery of the lake's Dakota name? Was Almanac hoping for the potty joke?
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