00:03:54.220So you just got to keep your mouth shut because I still have to... This is so disturbing to you.
00:03:57.960You have to understand, Malcolm, I'm like so steamed about this because, you know, like I mentioned, I was super into Sacagawea as a kid.
00:04:04.460I didn't know, despite doing an entire school report on her in the 1990s, that by the time that Lewis and Clark met Sacagawea in 1804, do you know how old she was?
00:08:13.220They provided $0 to deal with the ongoing genocide of MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+.
00:08:21.520I was confused to this whole addendum that had been put on the front of the alphabet.0.98
00:08:30.380And then, actually, when I was trying to search for the Holy Ball song on YouTube, some other songs from the MMIWG2S movement came up, like about missing, murdered Indigenous women and girls, etc.
00:08:46.000So according to organizations like the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women, violence against Native women and children is primarily framed as a legacy of Spanish and Euro-American invasion, settler colonialism, and continuing structural forces such as anti-Indigenous racism, border town violence, police brutality, and failures within the judicial system.
00:09:10.680wow that sounds really bad is it true i thought that probably speaking most acts of violence were
00:09:18.140you know like like murder were committed by by people with whom the victim is close right like
00:09:24.320is that generally the that is generally true yes okay so let's okay let's figure out what's
00:09:29.760happening then if if white colonialism is causing missing and murdered indigenous women and girls
00:09:35.520and two spirit people let's find out what's going on so this is like if you compared the like
00:09:42.400grape rates of like black women or like murder rates of black women and then try to frame it in
00:09:47.260a way that it's like it's white people doing this to them when like everyone would be like
00:09:51.480i don't think it is actually there was the great chart that looked at directional grape rates yeah
00:09:58.280that's been trending recently yeah yeah no interracial interracial rates and it showed the
00:10:04.460white male on black female was literally zero for the entire year right but the untold story there0.98
00:10:10.480is how and this sounds so bad but how black women are screwed in dating markets that they perform0.98
00:10:15.980worse in in swipe based dating markets and even on non-swipe based ones than asian men who0.99
00:10:22.540perform dismally which is to say like this sounds so bad but it's one of those like no one even wants
00:10:31.000situations because that is this is how much bias and like i'm definitely cutting that out simone
00:10:39.840i know but i'm saying like that's that's what's really going on here but but the the us not being
00:10:47.400able to talk about this leads to worse outcomes for these groups exactly and and what's what's
00:10:54.000so disturbing about this is that it's being actively actively sort of buried it's like oh
00:10:59.900there's this big problem it's all because of and then so it look so if there's a giant problem
00:11:04.960with trafficking and grape and disappearing of women in these communities what we should be doing
00:11:10.980is it's like no it's like there's a leak in your house there's like a leak coming through the roof
00:11:17.660like in this room right now dripping on top of me and people are coming over and i'm like i'm
00:11:22.000getting soaked here help me out and they're like all right heading straight to the bathroom i bet
00:11:26.420it's the toilet you know they're like down there in the basement i'm sitting here on the third
00:11:29.840floor being rained on like that's that's the problem anyway i wanted to look at what what
00:11:34.480formal institutions are saying and the national institute of justice is one of the prominent
00:11:39.440bodies that is, and this is, I think it's a branch of the Department of Justice. Let me,
00:11:44.120let me double check. Yeah. It's the Justice Department's research and evaluation arm. So this
00:11:48.240is the best and brightest of the U S government putting this together for us, really trying to
00:11:53.920solve tough, wicked problems. And they have provided the most cited national estimate of
00:11:59.640national intimate partner and sexual violence from that survey. And so the most cited one was
00:12:05.300published in 2016, it found that 97% of American Indian or Alaska Native women who reported one or
00:12:13.080more of some form of lifetime violence had experienced at least one incident involving
00:12:19.120a non-Native American Indian slash Alaska Native or interracial perpetrator. 35% had experienced
00:12:24.620at least one incident involving an American Indian or Alaska Native interracial perpetrator.
00:12:30.660So what they're saying here is, look, 97% are getting hit from outside the room. Only 35% had only experienced at least one incident involving someone of their own kind. These numbers look pretty bad.
00:12:45.840The same survey found that 84.3% of American Indian or Alaska Native women were reported one or more of the measured forms of lifetime violence.
00:12:55.26056.1, sexual violence, 55.5, physical intimate partner violence, 48.8, stalking, 66.4, psychological aggression by an intimate partner.
00:13:05.360I linked to the reports PDF and a lot of other things in the show notes so you can take a look at that.
00:13:09.060But I also asked, I like opened the PDF, and then I used AI to ask what percentage of violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women and men is committed by American Indian and Alaska Native people.
00:13:21.580And the answer is among American Indian and Alaska Native people who had experienced the covered forms of violence, 35% of female victims and 33% of male victims had experienced violence at least by one American Indian or Alaska Native perpetrator.
00:13:35.720perpetrator. So that confused me. I was also confused that the same report found that 97%
00:13:42.600of female victims and 90% of male victims had experienced violence by at least one non-American
00:13:48.460Indian or Alaska Native perpetrator. And then there's also older U.S. data that also the Bureau
00:13:53.280of Justice Statistics Analysis had posted looking at a 1992 to 1996 range of national crime
00:14:00.680victimization survey data of all American Indian victims, not women alone. And they found that
00:14:07.080it involved perpetrators being described as 60% white, 10% black, 29% other, a category that
00:14:13.700combined American Indian and Asian perpetrators, which is interesting. So here's what I find sus
00:14:20.080about these reports, because I'm not going to make you figure it out yourself. First,
00:14:23.640in the older report I just mentioned, they group Native Americans with Asians in a matter that0.91
00:14:29.640could be done to reduce the percentage of crimes perpetrated by indigenous americans like
00:14:34.660you wouldn't you're like well that must be like mostly asians then like that seems intentionally0.74
00:14:40.880yeah like they're really trying to like like there is all asians hold on there isn't actually0.92
00:14:47.360like if you're if you had good aims in putting together these reports there is no reason you
00:14:52.400wouldn't set out the the group that you are studying as a category in the attempted assaults
00:15:01.000yeah but remember octavia and i know so sorry keep thinking of our son malcolm in the first report
00:15:06.880they did right they separated out that that 35 percent rate of american indian alaska native
00:15:14.040but do you want to know what they did with the non-alaska native american that like much higher
00:15:19.040percentage so i read it real fast but the not american indian alaska native included interracial
00:15:27.720people so if the perceived attacker had a drop of non-pure native american blood they encountered
00:15:36.620them as whatever other and the fact that the interracial label was dropped from the second
00:15:43.720survey means it would probably did the same thing to lower the rates because i thought those rates
00:15:49.020sounded low and then i hear this and i'm like oh that's how they're low they just grouped they
00:15:54.280grouped like every other like basically non-american indian plus any american indian that's
00:16:01.100interracial all in one group and that was the only two groups that they looked at it was either
00:16:05.760american indian alaska native or not but not included interracial which is insanely suspicious
00:16:13.660um and it just looked to me like they were trying to like hand wave away the call coming from within
00:16:20.180the house and that made me angry of course not as angry as historical accounts of Native American
00:16:25.460violence because I'm not even gonna get into that you can look it up yourself okay I linked to a
00:16:28.980great video by Matt Walsh that you could watch that I couldn't finish because I started crying
00:16:34.060too hard okay but anyway I also want to touch on because I'll keep in mind they were talking about
00:16:40.100various forms of violence that people reported for this report. This is less important to my
00:16:44.600argument, but I still found it notable. For the research collected in the most cited 2016 study,
00:16:51.520interviewers called randomly selected landline and mobile phone numbers, and the relevant
00:16:55.780analytic sample studied or looked at included 2,473 American Indian and Alaska Native adult
00:17:03.600women and 1,505 American Indian, Alaska Native adult men. And this included people identifying
00:17:11.000as these things alongside other groups. So either alone or like, I'm half this, half that, or
00:17:18.080just I'm pure, pure Cherokee, whatever. And the survey used behaviorally specific questions
00:17:25.120about what respondents had experienced rather than relying on respondents' own labels. Like,
00:17:30.720were you beaten? Are you the victim of sexual violence? Are you the victim of abuse? They0.68
00:17:35.720didn't ask that. They asked questions. Can I ask you some example questions? Because they were
00:17:41.300asked from, in this sort of respondent-friendly language and behavior specific, and the questionnaire
00:17:46.860that was used, because it's a complete scripted 2010 questionnaire that they used, it's available
00:17:51.980publicly from the CDC. So I created representative wording from the instrument, and I'm going to ask
00:17:58.280you some questions so you can see if i have ever abused you can i are you ready for this okay yeah
00:18:03.760sure sure all right i'm calling you ring ring ring hello it's malcolm hello sir have you ever
00:18:11.360experienced a partner slapping pushing or shoving or pulling hair or hitting with a fist or object
00:18:18.480or kicking or slamming you against something or trying to choke or suffocate you or beating you
00:56:02.200But the point I'm making here is we're not making a unique claim about them.
00:56:05.680We're making a claim about people within this stage of the civilization.0.90
00:56:08.740We're making a claim about civilization and the huge lack of good morals it takes to literally impede, to retard a group of people, a culture, from adapting to more civilized formats when given the opportunity.1.00
00:56:29.660they have had things could have gone so differently and they it's really unfortunate that1.00
00:56:38.120that they they didn't yeah well and and and and keep in mind even when you look
00:56:47.440well anyway great episode simone i'm glad that you looked into this i'm surprised to see you0.96
00:56:53.660so radicalized on this particular topic i might cut babies no the babies you hurt babies you're0.95
00:56:59.800gone it does not matter who you are does not matter who you are you're gone straight to0.99
00:57:06.440the comanche story is what got you okay yeah no i'll do comanches foom
00:57:12.460they go all right it's been good talking with you and i will have to heavily edit this to make
00:57:22.860sure it's appropriate for youtube it doesn't share too much you know information but i think
00:57:27.380it is directionally a useful correction in terms of how we think about things as a society so that
00:57:34.160we can actually begin to address these issues rather than using them as cudgels for politics
00:57:40.260against groups that they're really not related to yeah thank you for your tactful editing i think it
00:57:48.440came out when the Chris Williamson round table came out and someone else was editing my statements
00:57:53.580people were like I thought Malcolm was the crazy one it turns out Simone is the unhinged person
00:58:01.980all along because I didn't have you to make me look less like an inhuman monster so thank you
00:58:10.000dear husband for everything that you do to thanks for the editing job you've given me on this one
00:58:15.840you can look i stand by everything i say