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SantasBananas3184 karma

A blind man notices reddit usernames more than I do...

SantasBananas68 karma

Hi there! You seem to have a knack for being at and documenting events with a lot of civil unrest. How do you decide which events to go out and cover? Also, which causes have you felt the most drawn in by?

SantasBananas16 karma

Tribes aren't monolithic - even if some members of the tribe are enabling you, others can help you move out.

From what I know (without being native myself), they're slow to kick out tribesmembers because that's (a) against tradition, (b) thinning your already low numbers, and (c) would be seen as doing something similar to the US government kicking tribespeople out of their lands.

Besides, natives can leave the reservation to buy drugs, and non-natives can enter the reservation. Policing on reservations is generally pretty mediocre, because the tribes don't have the resources to train a police force as well as a state does, and the local police often don't care to try to police the area around the reservation as well as they often should.

SantasBananas15 karma

One day when I was dead sick laying on the couch as a kid my mom put on the telly for me, and then put the remote somewhere I couldn't find. Boohbah came on, and I watched for some 20 minutes before I gathered the strength to get off the couch and turn it off. One of the absolute worst experiences of my life.

SantasBananas11 karma

You're allowed to ask him anything, but it's not really a great question to ask a young acrobat about politics. They more likely than not won't have a particularly interesting answer, and you've wasted his time to answer things that he's actually uniquely able to.

You basically just posited the "free speech" defense, which is almost admitting that the best argument for asking that question is that it's not explicitly banned.