“And continuing to insist on calling them that, or associating the word with their image..”
My point is that it’s the name of an ice cream bar.
Never once have I argued that people should or should not be referred to as Eskimo.
Nor am I aware the old image (which was not derogatory or insulting) is still used. Is it?
But the ice cream bar is very deliberately what we USED to (and some people still insist on) calling this group of people. Complete with a picture of one of them. But that’s not their name. One quick search in the engine of your choice shows very clearly that there is still a kid dressed like an Inuit on the boxes, right next to (and sometimes holding) the E in Eskimo.