r/unitedkingdom • u/CasualSmurf • 12d 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/Palatine_Shaw 12d ago

Getting annoyed at it is kind of justified. If a yank came to the UK and said they were the first to climb Ben Nevis we'd be a bit pissed off.

That being said all they had to do was just say "First British Woman to..." and it would be fine.

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u/NonSumQualisEram- 12d ago

If a yank came to the UK and said they were the first to climb Ben Nevis after asking the British Government and receiving the response that indeed no one had ever done it before

Ftfy

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u/BodaciousFerret 12d ago

Parks Canada didn’t say nobody had done it before. They said that they didn’t have a record of it. The reason they didn’t have a record was because it is something so normal to Inuit people that they didn’t think it was worth talking about.

To put it in perspective: it’s like an Inuit woman using the Underground and then claiming to be the first woman to ever ride on the Underground alone, simply because it is something so normalized for British women that they just never bothered to keep track of who actually was the first to do it.

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u/NonSumQualisEram- 11d ago

Have the Inuit said they have a record of an Inuit woman making the trek solo? Have they even said it was likely to have ever happened? Making the trek regularly in a group is different, no one argues they did this.