I’m no closer to the situation than you are, but it is my understanding that if Inupiat don’t call themselves Inuit, it’s probably bad manners to call them Inuit, even if it’s with the well-intentioned aim of not calling them Eskimos, especially if it’s a matter of record that they prefer “Eskimo”.
I don’t mind being called English, British, European or Caucasian either, but I know socially a number of Welshmen who’d resent being called English even if they could be genetically proven Anglo-Saxon, had an English surname and were functionally illiterate in Welsh (the last is true of a huge number of Welshmen).
I agree. I interpreted the intent of that post as saying something which objectively is just as bad and yet would cause a reaction which the OP had not caused and should have caused. In other words, it was solely meant to show the badness of the OP which, apparently, had gone unnoticed up to that point. In that sense I find that post justified.
Oh, come on! What is this “N-word” thing? Words are only words and the only thing that counts is the intention behind their use. In this case the intention was good and therefore acceptable.
I just hate all this PC bullshit where people are actively looking for offense in words.
A bit. To be honest I’d rather “by not objecting to it, we condone it” because while one can condone something by giving it tacit approval, they can also condone it simply by disproving but not feeling strongly enough to actually comment on it.
Saying that people were giving tacit approval to the original thread is a bit different, semantically from saying that people may have found it objectionable, but not taken the time to speak up about it.
I disagree.I just hate all this PC bullshit where people are actively looking for offense in words.
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I agree.
It was obviously meant to be offensive. Not directly offensive, of course, but was comparing the absurdity of claiming somebody who lived in a cold climate therefore had a frigid climate to the absurdity of claiming somebody who had skin the same color as chocolate also tasted like it. The response was over the top, and it was meant to be. In other words, it was meant to be offensive. Furthermore, since I’m pretty sure Cat Fight doesn’t feel that way, one might even call it trolling.
Other than the fact that it’s not a joke in Full Metal Jacket, I completely agree with you.
I am REALLY glad the OP pitted this and told us the intent behind the comment in the “Eskimo Pussy” post.
When I saw the thread, I did think, “We still are saying Eskimo?” Then I come across *this *OP’s post and TOTALLY didn’t get that it was meant in any way other than a lame attempt at a joke.
Golly, sarcasm sure is tough to get across in writing!
I am black (and have a pussy…but cannot attest to its chocolatiness), and I seriously am not offended by very much. I saw the post and recoiled a bit and thought, “We still are saying nigger?” Okay, not really. I really thought, “Whoa, where did that come from?”
Now that I get your intended tone (I think), well played!
I assumed the etymology of Eskimo and nigger are quite different, but they both derive (perceivably) from pretty mundane things (skin color and cultural attributes). I just wonder if “Eskimo” is/was used to oppress and if someone can, say, get fired from work for referring to a coworker in such a way.
I sent a complaint to the Mod at exactly the same moment that it was locked down. It’s only the second time I’ve done that. It wasn’t the Eskimo portion that offended me, by the way, although that was tasteless in the context of the intent of the thread. While I took you to task for your comment, I immediately realized that the proper venue was through the moderators, and that possibly your comment was a whoosh.
In retrospect, I probably should have simply written ‘black pussy.’ Or asked if Asian pussy tasted like rice. Or something equally as stupid. If women were never reduced to their genitals and racial minorities never got asked stupid, offensive questions regarding their looks (even as a joke), and if minority women didn’t get twice as much stereotypical crap, I’m sure I’d be less perturbed.
The word “Eskimo” was derived from the native Innu people of Eastern Canada and it means “people who speak a different language”. The word “Inuit” mearely means “people”.
If your goal was to make the same point without getting a warning or offending other people who weren’t sure of your meaning, you probably should’ve done was asked the same thing you did in this thread - ‘Would people think it was funny if the OP asked’ and insert whatever comparison. The OP had already been banned when you made your post, and I still would’ve locked the thread if you’d made the same point in another way.
Yes, because men are never called cocks, dicks, pricks, or assholes. White people are never called crackers, rednecks, or trailer trash. Good point. :rolleyes:
They are and they aren’t. It’s really fascinating, but the kind of thing that requires a significant amount of secondary education to truly appreciate----Eskimos, also known inter alia as “snow niggers” and “tusk chuckers,” are rumored to have as many as five thousand separate words for queef. This consistently rates among anthropology’s top 20 unproven assertions and likely to remain so, as to date, no Westerner has ever seen a living Eskimo; to our pathologically spherical eyes, they are frequently indistinguishable from smaller examples of Otariidae, with whom they blend in quite effortlessly, hence the term Lioness van Pelt, Dutch argot for a particularly convincing form of military camouflage using a blanket. One of the relatively unsung tragedies of global warming is the projected loss of the entirety of Eskimo literature, all of which was carved into ice blocks by generations of not particularly forward-thinking Eskimo novelists, playwrights, and pornographers—an inevitability Oxford anthropologist T. Walker Shortbred has called “a catastrophe equal to the destruction of the Library of Alexandria,” which however most of his colleagues have privately dismissed as “histrionic” in light of the universal consensus that Eskimo writing “sort of sucks.”
