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Re:National Geographic lays off its last remaining staff wri... by Dalewyn on Thursday June 29, 2023 @01:49AM (#36516813)
The problem isn't their price, the problem is their content is not worth their asking price.

Seriously, I don't give a damn about reimagining European folk tales and classic stories under a Nigerian eye. That's from this month's issue of NatGeo, by the way.

I have better ways of burning my money than on woke and worthless, literal bullshit wastes of time like that. The National Geographic of today is an insult to the name and what it once was.

Also, like half the magazine are ads for Rolex watches and gold bullions and the like.

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Re:National Geographic lays off its last remaining staff wri... by sofixa on Thursday June 29, 2023 @02:26AM (#36517068)
> woke

Define woke please, because I struggle to make a link between "woke" and the examples you shared about European folk tales and Nigerian stories. And it's not like it's something new, I remember reading about some Amazonian tribe's folklore as a kid in National Geographic.

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Re:National Geographic lays off its last remaining staff wri... by martin8412 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @02:59AM (#36517286)
Well, in this particular case, it's European folk tales put into a different context by some Nigerian artist. It would probably be more suitable for an art magazine. There's nothing about Nigerian folk tales in it.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/yagazie-e...

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