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In reply to the discussion: Poll finds large majority of Native Americans are OK with “Redskins” [View all]kwassa
(23,340 posts)22. That's the strangest thing I've heard all week.
Words are most definitely racist because of the meaning attributed to them.
The fact the word was used at the time of the colonization of North America -with all its violence- doesn't make the term racist.
The fact that the word was used, along with that violence, in a pejorative sense to identify non-whites as lesser beings makes it most certainly racist. It was racist then, and it is racist now.
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Poll finds large majority of Native Americans are OK with “Redskins” [View all]
Algernon Moncrieff
May 2016
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Apparently it's only bleeding-heart liberal, pasty white, activist busybodies who are...
ChisolmTrailDem
May 2016
#14
Don't you like how WAPO said they took a poll so then " most " don't mind ...what BUllshit
Person 2713
May 2016
#52