Quote:

---

Viral Photo Of People Giving Middle Finger To Mount Rushmore Causes Outrage

https://www.inquisitr.com/4423814/viral-photo...s-outrage/

middlefinger mount rushmore
BuzzWorthy


Rob Cotton

A photo of three people standing in front of Mount Rushmore with their middle fingers held high in the air toward the famous monument has been circulating online, and as might be expected, it is causing quite a stir among people who are outraged by what has been described as “unpatriotic” behavior.

The photo first seems to have gone into wide circulation when it was posted to Twitter by a writer named Lucian Wintrich from right wing website Gateway Pundit. Wintrich seems upset that anyone would dare extend their middle finger toward the stone carvings of the former presidents on Mount Rushmore.


“They break into our country, steal resources, then do s**t like this,” Wintrich said in the tweet. “And libs still wonder why we are pushing for immigration controls.”

The problem with Wintrich’s analysis is that the people depicted in the photo likely did not “break into” the United States. On the contrary, they are indigenous Americans, as model Ari Dee pointed out in a response to Wintrich.

“They are indigenous Americans,” Ari Dee tweeted. “This was a sacred mountain called Six Grandfathers that was revered by Lakota Sioux before it was defiled.”

Ari Dee is correct about the history of Mount Rushmore. While most Americans likely think of Rushmore as anything from a proud monument to patriotism to a quaint roadside attraction, the truth about the history behind it makes it easy to understand why the people in the photo decided to “flip the bird” toward the stone carvings of Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, and Theodore Roosevelt

---