A sentiment I’ve heard a bunch is “oh, so you called us Indians and now you’re uncomfortable with that label? Well fuck you, you don’t get to keep unilaterally changing what’s acceptable. If thinking about colonialism makes you uncomfortable, then great! Start sitting with that discomfort and recognising the crumb of self determination we express by identifying as Indians. You gave us that label, and it’s ours now.”
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Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 hours agoMy native american father in law prefers to call himself an Indian.
From his point of view he wouldn’t call himself a “native american” because he belongs to an actual nation and indigenous people aren’t a homogenous group.
He prefers Indian because it makes white people look bad. Incredibly based
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 8 hours ago
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
So the people trying to make the term more accurate are the same ones that started calling then Indian in the first place? In other words, all white people are the same? That’s one hell of an advanced Reverse UNO
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
He prefers Indian because it makes white people look bad.
I know nothing else about him, but I like him already.
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Me, Native american: Indigenous to where? lmfao
I swear people just pick the worst words to describe people sometimes when going down the slippery slope for PC language. It’s all so arbitrary lol.
People first language literally creates more in-groups and out-groups who have to jump literal semantic hoops, usually just make the in group feel a little better labeling someone because people turn a blind eye to racists.
I have rarely, and I mean very, very rarely seen new language originate from minority or out-groups being used by their own people first then co-opted by the in-group. There’s some random language here and there, but anything race/ethnicity related, it’s almost always the in-group getting too racist to call people by what they used for the out-group before, and they have to start calling them something else or fear being branded a racist… Rather than, you know, ostracizing people for being fucking racist.
Maybe I’m just too mixed or too ND to care, but for the same reason why if you get the pronunciation of my name close enough and know you’re referring to me, I could care less. (Heh)
TBH, I wish Injun made a comebock.
I like Namen (Native American, human, man, woman, his noodly appendage) too. No, I don’t care if you say Nay-men or Nah-men.
You’re wrong if you pronounce GIF as JIF though.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Everything was fine until you said that. Now we’re mortal enemies.