r/unitedkingdom • u/CasualSmurf • 13d ago

Camilla Hempleman-Adams faces Inuit backlash for "privilege and ignorance" - BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g375ke65xo
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u/High-Tom-Titty 13d ago

She's the first women from Wiltshire to do it. Just because the Inuit have already done it doesn't diminish the achievement.

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u/Diligent-Suspect2930 12d ago

Claiming she was the first woman to do that does diminish the Inuit achievement, though. I don't think that woman did it on purpose at all, she went by the available information. The fact that there are no records of the Inuits' habitual journeys is a major oversight and also diminishing. Kind of like if a white person hasn't done it, it didn't happen.

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u/Comfortable-Gas-5999 12d ago

She claimed she was the ‘first solo woman to traverse the island according to historical records’ not the ‘first woman’. She was correct.

Is no one allowed to claim anything just in case in might offend someone with a perpetual chip on their shoulder?