[oldbrowser]

How about calling them the "whiteskins"?

I wonder who would be outraged, and why?

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I would say 'redskin' already means white people as the only race that gets REAL red skin, is whites, ergo I am highly offended by the term Redskin! Where is my compensation! I am so sick of this racism and oppression against me by the man!

[mrsmel]

Nobody. Even conservatives have subconsciously bought into the rhetoric by using demeaning descriptions of our white skin, such as “pasty white”. It may seem a little insignificant thing, but if only the right understood the power of language and the redefinition of words as well as the left does, they wouldn’t succumb to this mess. I am white, I am pale-complexioned, I don’t tan and don’t try to or want to, and I would never describe my pale complexion as “pasty”. It is the complexion which women for thousands of years tried to have, and it is healthier to boot. If I need to use an adjective for my pale complexion, it will be something like “lily pale” or “magnolia texture” :)