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of the slurs that someone could possibly use, which of the following would you forgive if a candidate you supported used it?
Dear god this country needs to get rid of all the stupid fricken PC bull-****
Squaw does refer to a woman. Why in the hell is it up there as some sort of "slur"?
Squaw as a slur? LMAO My grandpa would have thought that hilarious. His full blooded Cherokee mother was often referred to as a squaw.
Dear god this country needs to get rid of all the stupid fricken PC bull-****
Many present-day Native Americans find this term to be extremely offensive, partly but not entirely because of incorrect claims that it comes from a word for the vagina.
Derogatory connotations and folk etymologies for the origins of the word "squaw" seem to have emerged during the 1800s, when incidents of rape, torture, and other violence against Native women were increasing dramatically during the Indian Wars on the western plains, and when Algonquian loan words, garbled in the mouths of hostile white settlers, were being transported to western Native tribes who spoke different languages.
Some derogatory connotations for squaw that are not explicitly sexual can be found in various 19th- and 20th-century texts. One author, for example, described the "universal" Indian squaw as "squat, angular, pig-eyed, ragged, wretched, and insect-haunted" (Steele 1883). Squaw also became a derogatory adjective used against some men, in "squaw man," meaning either "an Indian who does woman's work" or "a white man married to an Indian woman and living with her people" (Hodge 1910). (This was a popular literary stereotype – see "The Squaw Man".)
An early-20th-century dictionary of American usage called squaw "a contemptuous term" (Crowell 1928). When Isaac Asimov (1950) needed a slur that science-fictional natives of other planets would use against natives of Earth, he looked to this word:
"Lieutenant Claudy… said harshly, 'Your name, Earthie-squaw?'
"The term itself was richly insulting…"
Squaw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Well...yeah people....I mean it's not like it has been a derogatory term for like.....200 years or something....
I will never use that term in the way I use to think about. But I still like *****.
How about honky, whitey, The Man, and redneck?
Squaw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Well...yeah people....I mean it's not like it has been a derogatory term for like.....200 years or something....
I've never heard it used in a derogatory way. The mere idea that is was or has been is completely new to me, and apparently was foreign to my grandmother and granfather as well as their children. Since I've used the term around Native American friends and aquaintences, I guess it was foreign to them too. I'm surprised they didn't realize that I was ACTUALLY insulting them by using a native american term. :roll:
You ever seen that movie Clerks II? There is a part in it that reminds me of what you're saying :
YouTube - Clerks II - Porch Monkeys (GOOD Quality)
Yup, goes pretty well with all the PC bullcrap that need to be nipped in the ***.
I voted that I wouldn't vote for a candidate that used any of those racial slurs. I believe in freedom of speech but I would want someone in charge of this country that isn't a racist and using derogatory terms to describe a group of people is racist. Eventually they are going to use their power to combine with their beliefs.
How about honky, whitey, The Man, and redneck?
How about whitebread?
You ever seen that movie Clerks II? There is a part in it that reminds me of what you're saying :
YouTube - Clerks II - Porch Monkeys (GOOD Quality)
It goes with dumb people who think a word isn't a racist even when they're explained why it's racist. Did you watch the video till the end? He argues as to why his grandmother isn't racist for like 2:30 minutes and then finally realizes she was really racist.
of the slurs that someone could possibly use, which of the following would you forgive if a candidate you supported used it?
It goes with dumb people who think a word isn't a racist even when they're explained why it's racist. Did you watch the video till the end? He argues as to why his grandmother isn't racist for like 2:30 minutes and then finally realizes she was really racist.
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