So the redskins name is actually worse since no one actually used those other names. The actual names we would have to put on the labels would mean that the cartoon wasn't publishable.
OMG A LESS THAN SCIENTIFIC POLL SHOWED THAT MOST NATIVE AMERICANS DON.T CARE!! You are the racist here. It was a compliment to their bravery herp durr durr
And it was a group of Native Americans who brought the latest suit, and add campaign. It is obvious that not all care sure, but many feel deeply about it.
I don't know if yellowskins and blackskins are as bad, in that my sense is that redskins was used in the same way that the N-word is used in the contemporary world toward blacks, but it could be that I'm just thinking of old western movies, which might not be a good source.
I'm not sure there's an exact equivalence in terms of offensiveness between the r word and the n word, but I think redskins is probably the most offensive term for Native Americans in the English language, which makes it as close to equivalent as things can get.
Actually, IIRC, there is a high school team mascot in the Dakotas called the Fighting Whitey, a guy who dresses in yuppie clothes to cheer on the team.
Turnabout is not only fair play, it's pretty damned funny.
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Date: 2014-06-26 01:32 pm (UTC)in that my sense is that redskins was used in the same way
that the N-word is used in the contemporary world toward blacks,
but it could be that I'm just thinking of old western movies,
which might not be a good source.
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Date: 2014-06-28 11:15 pm (UTC)I'm not sure there's an exact equivalence in terms of offensiveness between the r word and the n word, but I think redskins is probably the most offensive term for Native Americans in the English language, which makes it as close to equivalent as things can get.
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Date: 2014-06-26 11:03 pm (UTC)Turnabout is not only fair play, it's pretty damned funny.