How is this derogatory?
Maybe Eskimo is the new E word.
“ How is this derogatory?”
It isn’t, and it won’t stop until we all wear the same drab gray suit and have the same haircut unless people start standing up against it. You’ll have to pry my Eskimo Pie from my cold dead hands.
In Alaska the word Eskimo is consider a pejorative, For folks in Rio Linda, Eskimo = the N word.
Real fast way to start a fight in some places.
Look it up in the Urban Dictionary. I’d change the name too.
Eskimo is in Inuit word for cannibal.
They were asked who are those guys over there.
See also Kangaroo, in one of the aboriginal languages it means 'I don't understand' which is what the guy said when asked a question in perfectly good English...