Date: 2014-06-26 06:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] goumindong.livejournal.com
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.

Date: 2014-06-26 08:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] musicpsych.livejournal.com
I was thinking that, too. Especially with "whiteskins" - I feel like people would shrug their shoulders and say, "okay."

Date: 2014-06-26 07:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] usekh.livejournal.com
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

Date: 2014-06-26 10:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oslo.livejournal.com
I have Native American friends, and I asked one whether he cared, and he was all like, "Naah," so clearly the jury's still out in some quarters, so...

Date: 2014-06-26 10:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] usekh.livejournal.com
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.

Date: 2014-06-27 12:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oslo.livejournal.com
(I was being facetious, if that wasn't clear.)

Date: 2014-06-26 11:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fizzyland.livejournal.com
This would be true of any topic. Some people just don't care.

Date: 2014-06-27 02:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lafinjack.livejournal.com
Current study that used actual standards and stuff. (http://cips.csusb.edu/docs/PressRelease.pdf)

Date: 2014-06-26 01:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hardblue.livejournal.com
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.

Date: 2014-06-28 11:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moonshaz.livejournal.com
I've always thought the same thing.

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.

Date: 2014-06-29 10:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] catlin.livejournal.com
Squaw is worse. That covers some pretty nasty stuff.

Date: 2014-06-26 11:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] peristaltor.livejournal.com
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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