that's the tangent they removed from *this* thread, where we haven't really gotten any feedback about SJ beyond my initial post. But here's what the same person said on fb about him:
"He hides his relationship with indigenous people whom he has straight up plagerized all the way to his core statements. His is an uninitiated version of some initiated indigenous ways of looking at the world. He stole them.
And my interactions with him, with some of his earlier students, some of whom I know well, are where I know about his pretty distilled patriarchy. One weird example: he wears those Dine style mocassins with the white rubber sole, and shamed a female follower of his for copying him, claiming those shoes were for men only. WTF? I know a ton of indigenous women who wear that style of shoe.
I've stayed away from his teachings, but I was invited to a student of his presentation on his idea for helping people fight their 'right livlihood' and I was aghast. It was an entire ideology of capitalism, entrepreneurship, and entitlement all based around the idea of seeds. Like: seeds have to crack open and be detroyed to grow. Let yourself be detroyed. You don't want to just rot underground instead of growing, do you?" My jaw was on the floor. And that person had gotten permission and shared their content with Stephen.
he hides his whiteness."
