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 also 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.
Taniwha420@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I’ve had members of the Métis community tell me to use “indigenous” with a mixed group because in Canada the Métis and the Inuit don’t fall under the Indian Act.