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WCAIS_PA_Individual t1_j2ucu89 wrote

Reply to comment by CocoaMotive in I am 100% for this and want to see what everyone in Pennsylvania thinks ? Kill a parent drunk driving pay child support. by [deleted]

I want to know, is using the word "Eskimo" racist ? Like, in your head, think about it, would that be considered racist?

  • If yes, then I guess you don't know that Eskimo is derived from the definition of "askimew", a Cree word meaning "he laces snowshoes", linguists believe that may have been the original name the Crees used to refer to their Inuit neighbors.

  • If no, then you probably already know the definition and details about the word Eskimo . Good for you.

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dogmomdrinkstea t1_j2vi547 wrote

I mean, if you're not an indigenous person there then you don't get to decide if it's racist. No need to debate semantics.

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StagLee1 t1_j2vyjum wrote

Yes, for instance three of my relatives who are descendents of indigenous people refer to themselves as Indians, as did my friend John Trudell, spokesperson of the American Indian Movement (AIM) that took over Alcatraz. My relatives do not like the term Native American, so I do not use that term, but so called enlightened people say using the term Indian makes me sound racially insensitive and culturally ignorant.

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WCAIS_PA_Individual t1_j327irg wrote

Well Native American literally means they literally were native to a country that didn't exist until we stole their land. I'd be pissed if I was called that too.

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WCAIS_PA_Individual t1_j3279ph wrote

So if the locals call the locals something, I can't decide if it's racist or not if I am not a local?

Uh...

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dogmomdrinkstea t1_j32lqff wrote

Yeah. It's pretty simple. You don't get to decide what is offensive towards another race.

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WCAIS_PA_Individual t1_j336cww wrote

At best, it's a ethnicity , as defined by census bureau, and science .

Here you go.

>race is often perceived as something that's inherent in our biology, and therefore inherited across generations. Ethnicity, on the other hand, is typically understood as something we acquire, or self-ascribe, based on factors like where we live or the culture we share with others.

>major distinction between race and ethnicity: While race is ascribed to individuals on the basis of physical traits, ethnicity is more frequently chosen by the individual. And, because it encompasses everything from language, to nationality, culture and religion, it can enable people to take on several identities. Someone might choose to identify themselves as Asian American, British Somali or an Ashkenazi Jew, for instance, drawing on different aspects of their ascribed racial identity, culture, ancestry and religion.

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dogmomdrinkstea t1_j33gdfj wrote

And the first time I specifically said indigenous to that area, meaning Inuit (the correct term).

Man, you wanna have permission to be racist so bad. No use talking to a brick wall, see ya.

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WCAIS_PA_Individual t1_j34fvtw wrote

Stop race shaming actual Races with your uneducated responses .

BTW, indigenous was a determination of if an individual was "Negro" or born in the Americas

>As a reference to a group of people, the term Indigenous first came into use by Europeans who used it to differentiate the Indigenous peoples of the Americas from enslaved Africans. It may have first been used in this context by Sir Thomas Browne. In Chapter 10 of Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646), entitled "Of the Blackness of Negroes", Browne wrote "and although in many parts thereof there be at present swarms of Negroes serving under the Spaniard, yet were they all transported from Africa, since the discovery of Columbus; and are not indigenous or proper natives of America."[5][6]

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point_breeze69 t1_j2ugbsc wrote

Fuck the Kree and anyone that supports those megalomaniacs!

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dogmomdrinkstea t1_j2vidq4 wrote

Are....are you saying Kree as in blue-skinned Marvel movie characters or Cree as in the indigenous tribe? Highly hope it's the former bc otherwise yikes.

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point_breeze69 t1_j2ws1hb wrote

You ever read those choose your own adventure books? I’ll let you decide as the reader. It’s more fun that way.

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