▲ 1495 ▼ obesity (programming.dev) submitted 2 years ago by Europa_The_Last_Battle@programming.dev to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 164 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 2 points 2 years ago (2 children) What about something related to the indigenous peoples of the Americas? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Nutteman@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago* We killed them and displaced the rest so damn fast that we forgot all the major slurs for them permalink fedilink source parent [–] june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago "Savages", "Redskins”, "Squaw", and so on. Some news headlines even refer to the second one as "the R-word": CNN: The terrible R-word that football needed to lose Politico: The R-Word Is Even Worse Than You Think These are extremely harmful words with hundreds of years of genocide behind them. I imagine the only reason they aren't censored like the N-word is is because Native Americans make up a proportionally smaller population due to the effectiveness of the genocide, and because the reservation system is in contrast to racial integration as with American black people in so much as it limits interactions between them and racist whites who would overuse a dehumanizing phrase to the same extent. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Nutteman@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago* We killed them and displaced the rest so damn fast that we forgot all the major slurs for them permalink fedilink source parent
[–] june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago "Savages", "Redskins”, "Squaw", and so on. Some news headlines even refer to the second one as "the R-word": CNN: The terrible R-word that football needed to lose Politico: The R-Word Is Even Worse Than You Think These are extremely harmful words with hundreds of years of genocide behind them. I imagine the only reason they aren't censored like the N-word is is because Native Americans make up a proportionally smaller population due to the effectiveness of the genocide, and because the reservation system is in contrast to racial integration as with American black people in so much as it limits interactions between them and racist whites who would overuse a dehumanizing phrase to the same extent. permalink fedilink source parent