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To: nickcarraway

‘“redskin” is a racial slur against indigenous Americans’

Says who?

Wouldn’t that make “black” (or “white”) a racial slur as well, since it is a reference to skin color, just like “redskin”?


6 posted on 01/12/2021 2:31:14 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman
Wouldn’t that make “black” (or “white”) a racial slur as well, since it is a reference to skin color, just like “redskin”?

It's complicated. And besides; shut up, or you'll be shipped off to a PBS reeducation camp.

30 posted on 01/12/2021 2:43:20 PM PST by Flick Lives (“ Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: Boogieman

Wouldn’t that make “black” (or “white”) a racial slur as well, since it is a reference to skin color, just like “redskin”?


‘Redskin’ is not a reference to the color of the skin itself. It is a reference to the pigmenting of the skin of warriors. It’d be like Picts as blueskins.


66 posted on 01/12/2021 6:52:07 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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