yup, struggle session time
edit: no one is right, everyone is wrong :^)
edit 2: this post is actually dedicated to Amy Goodman, please stop trying to sound cool grandma
People indigenous to the US very often call themselves american indians. I’ve seen so much fake outrage over this one it’s really weird. The same can be said about the word gypsy which many romani also call themselves. The indigenous version of the black panthers was called the American Indian movement ffs.
It’s one thing when this stuff is based from a place of being respectful vs others where it’s entirely based on trying to signal how educated you are to others part of the liberal activist ingroup.
Funny enough I’m pretty sure the word indian never was intended to mean a particular place. It was just a word for the people over there. That’s why all of southern Asia, oceania, and the americas were referred to as Indian.
It’s not fake outrage, it just makes things harder to talk about.
“Gypsy” might have been offensive once but the difference is that noone else was called a Gypsy.
“Caucasian” and “Indian” (among others) literally take words and redefined them to make white people feel better. And centuries later people still don’t understand the history of why this happened.
