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Consequential Damages of Nuclear War: The Rongelap Report

The following is a statement from Dr. Holly Barker, Principal Lecturer in the UW Department of Anthropology

SpongeBob SquarePants is ‘violent, racist and whitewashes US history’ top professor claims

University of Washington Professor Holly M. Barker Calls SpongeBob SquarePants A Racist, Violent Colonizer

Consequential Damages of Nuclear War: The Rongelap Report

University of Washington Professor Holly M. Barker Calls SpongeBob SquarePants A Racist, Violent Colonizer

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This article also considers the gendered violence of nuclear colonialism and the resilience of Marshallese women.
Popular culture plays a role in silencing the history and its impact on the Bikinian people, and this can have a particularly insidious and violent impact on Indigenous Pacific Islanders, like the Marshallese Bikini is one of two ground zero locations for U.
Instead, it asks readers to consider the way that the show's creation of a fictional world in the non-fictional homelands of the Bikinians removes the U.

One fan theory has it that SpongeBob and his collection of weird and wonderful friends are the result of mutations caused by radiation on Bikini Atoll above them.

The report, reproduced here with accompanying materials, should be read by everyone concerned with the effects of nuclear war and is an essential text for courses in history, environmental studies, bioethics, human rights, and related subjects.
Marvel Comics writer Saladin Ahmed attacked Kelloggs and described the depiction of two Corn Pops as racist.
Barker is the former senior advisor to the Republic of the Marshall Islands Ambassador to the United States, and now teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington.