In the meantime words like bawd, call girl, cocotte, courtesan, drab, hooker, hustler, prostitute, streetwalker, tart and many others are perfectly acceptable when being directed at women of any color and not just the American Indians. Which group is next and how much of the public’s money should be spent.
They are even expanding on the creation of words when they get rid of others. The term native American didn’t exist until 1948 and wasn’t used liberally until the 60’s. Besides, the term is no more appropriate than its predecessor. “America” was derived from Amerigo Vespucci, a 16th century Italian navigator who was once said to be the “discoverer” of the continent. How can the people who were already here be named with his name?
But the stupidity of the term native American is a blunder as it is. A native is a person born in a specified place or associated with a place by birth, whether subsequently resident there or not. An American is a person that calls themselves a citizen of one of the Americas, north, south, or central. So that monger can be directed to anyone in the western world, living or born and be correct. I’ll bet those of you who fall under this category weren’t aware you were native Americans. Remember that when you file taxes. My wife is a quarter Cherokee and has roots to a tribe in Oklahoma. But she’s no more Native American than I am as I was born in the US, and lived here officially my whole life. These people need to accept who they are and stop recreating those that do.
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Squaw was once a useful word in Words With Friends but now is not allowed.
I propose “squa”.
Only idiots say a mere use of any native American word or term implies a “slur”. There may be such examples but it is a linguistic and historical error to imply every such use of a native American, or native American associated, phrase is a slur. It’s totally not true.
Squaw is not a slur even if some stupid cowboy in a Hollywood movie used the term with that intent. It was no more a slur than saying a “black” man was “black” or a “white” man was “white”, no matter the ignorant intent of the speaker.
That is like banning the word woman or man…
Or parent, dad or mom … Oh wait, they are banning those also !
Zappa’s brain police at it again.
I take so much pleasure in not having precolombian primitives in my area. After the Revolution, the English took their conspiring bastard Indians to Canada, and left my region almost perfectly clear. “Thank you!” Of course we now have floods of low status immigrants being smuggled in by the Democrats...
Nothing like ending racism by banning the very word for
woman in Native American language. It may have a little
different meaning technically, but same difference.
How does it help Native Americans to eliminate any outward
appearances of respect and their strong characters, to
eliminate them from the English language?
Something is eating away at the minds of a lot of our
citizens. Was it part of why the jab was so important?
When I was growing up it seemed to me it was used in movies and TV shows the same as fräulein or señorita, just as a nod to a different culture.
“squaw,” a slur against Native American women,
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Who made that “official” determination? I could be coaxed out of retirement to have that job.
BUT-—Calif allows “BITCH” & “WHORE” into thousands of hours of “MUSIC”.
Liberals hate native americans.