• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      I will speak to my fellow caucasians and say, “if you’re offended, lighten the fuck up, honky.”

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      I think the way it works is someone who is not a member of that group tells you it’s offensive

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          Me either, but it’s actually meant to be offensive whereas Caucasians is just a classification.

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          You would be if they had stolen your home and pranced around in a caricature costume of you through the stadium they built after bulldozing your land

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            Yes, but that’s the point. They didn’t do that to white people, so white people are in no position to be offended. Including me. Which is why I’m not only not offended, but find that highly appropriate.

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              What is happening when white people are like “I’m not offended by this” is to minimize the offense that native Americans feel about the same thing.

              As if to say “I’m not offended, why are they?”

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        Cracker isn’t an epithet that native Americans have ever used though.

        Paleface would be the matching slur to redskin.

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      The problem with the football teams is that usually the name of team is the name of a group of ppl that was almost exterminated and their descendants still pay the price and nobody cares while their name is used as something cool. Just using the name should not be that offensive.

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        Except redskins is offensive. It’s not the name of a group of people, it’s an epithet describing them.

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            Were you going to show us this poll or were you just going to expect us to believe that quote of yours isn’t one you just made up?

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              I like to omit the source sometimes just to draw out lazy comments like yours. It really shows that you’re not that interested but just want to argue. It’s the title of an article from one of the most prominent newspapers out there, it’d be the first result if you simply pasted it in Google, but rather than save yourself the embarrassment, you chose this route.

              Swing and a miss.

              The article is even better than the title.

              Among the Native Americans reached over a five-month period ending in April, more than 7 in 10 said they did not feel the word “Redskin” was disrespectful to Indians. An even higher number — 8 in 10 — said they would not be offended if a non-native called them that name.