Posted on 10/12/2020 8:14:26 AM PDT by knighthawk
The makers of Eskimo Pie ice cream have announced the new name for their brand, losing a 100-year-old trademark which is now considered racially insensitive.
From 2021 Eskimo Pie will be known as Edy's Pie - a tribute to one of their founders, Joseph Edy.
In 1928 Edy and William Dreyer decided to join forces to manufacture ice cream, beginning a company which owns Eskimo Pie and is now known as Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, in turn owned by Nestle.
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No. They aren’t. They’re just tired. Complaints about the Redskins name actually go back to the late 50s. That one has been a looooong time coming.
And honestly, a lot of folks don’t Chief Wahoo either. It’s a pretty crap stereotype with pretty crap history.
Like the GS cookie, Samoans .... why is everythjng insensitive to these creeps except filth and filthy language on television?
Who asked them to change it?
“people were just willing to eat crap cause they didn’t have the power. So we could call people Eskimos, or Redskins, or Honey, or Boy, and too bad if they didn’t like it.”
Eskimo was never known by the general populace as being a derogatory term.
When people used the other terms you mention, it’s known that those are derogatory terms.
People who used Eskimo simply though it meant Alaskan natives and was never meant to be derogatory.
In fact quite the opposite, as seen in such terms as Eskimo kiss which had zero negative connotations.
Your analogy is not apt.
Not sure if serious
Nothing derogatory or disrespectful about those
long running promotions and ads
If anything, the Eskimo Pie co. successors
pre Nestle should be
angry they yielded product leadership position to
competition - this dumb Euroweenie move will fail
Specify your pronoun. There’s multiple its in that post, plus another overriding it from the thread itself.
Well, they could call it an Inuit Pie or a Yupik Pie. But the term “Eskimo” is not offensive to Alaska Natives!!
https://www.alaskan-natives.com/2166/eskimo-inuit-inupiaq-terms-thing/
“Series question here....why is the word Eskimo derogatory?”
I know an Inuit tribal chief from Alaska and he said essentially they just prefer the name they gave themselves, that Eskimo was a name given to them by ‘outsider tribes’, not necessarily intended to be complimentary. He was not particularly offended by the term however because he knows it’s an historically accepted term now and those using it do not intend it negatively.
He equated it to someone asking a co-worker your name and they told him your name was “Fatso” and they called you that from then on. At some point you may want to at least let them know that is not your true name. LOL
Doesn’t matter. It isn’t their name. It’s NEVER been their name. It’s the name explorers gave them based on stuff their non-Inuit guides told them. The very fact of saying “we don’t care what you call yourselves, we’re calling you Eskimos” is innately derogatory. It’s declaring they don’t have a right to name themselves. I say you’re Tim and I don’t give a crap if you wanna be Jim, Tim it is, suck it up. Same thing. They’re Inuit. Their name. That’s ALWAYS been their name. And we know this now. The word has circulated. So stop calling them Tim.
These moves to destroy elements of our culture are working... Liberal ‘elite’ thugs, filthy commie antifa thugs and BLM thugs are all smiling.
?
South of the Mason Dixon line, a waitress
calls everyone “Hon” or “Honey” and
children everywhere dont mind either.
The Inuit ate raw meat, so they couldn’t be against
“Eskimo” if it was meant to be a pejorative about
eating meat. (which makes the idea about it
being related to wearing netted snowshoes more
plausible)
Alaska, in the USA does not collectively object
to “Eskimo” .
It’s dopes like you that take innocuous circumstances
and turn them inside out, when culture
is filled with truly prejudiced terms and actions -
“white supremacy” a prime example
You want to see an extension of real power, keep pushing kid!
Multiple people asked them to change the Eskimo pie name?
Not the honey I was talking about. And you know that.
Of course they could be against it if it was meant to be a pejorative. And it really doesn’t matter where the word came from. IT’S NOT THEIR NAME.
Who gives a shit what Alaska collectively does not object to. IT’S NOT THEIR NAME.
It’s dopes like you that turn something very simple, the basic politeness of calling somebody what they want to be called, and turn it into an argument. You have NO POWER. That’s why you whine about it. You see every little change as some massive assault. It’s not an assault, it’s them saying “hey, that’s not our name”.
Really, show me on the doll where it hurts you to call somebody what they want to be called.
Multiple people want to be called by the name their ancestors gave themselves and not that other name. Whether they talked to the company or not does not matter. They’re not Eskimos. Stop calling them that.
“he very fact of saying “we don’t care what you call yourselves, we’re calling you Eskimos” is innately derogatory.”
But that was not generally known that Eskimo was not the correct name.
It was never meant as a derogatory term or racial epithet.
True enough. But it IS NOW. And continuing to insist on calling them that, or associating the word with their image, IS NOW derogatory. Just like my Jim Tim example. If I mishear and call you Tim that’s not derogatory. If you correct me and I STILL call you Tim, that’s derogatory.
Their name is Inuit. You’ve been corrected. Chose your path.
Are you an eskimo?
I guess all the Eskimos must be very embarrassed for themselves. Any reference to them is now considered a derogatory term.
Nope. Just polite.
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