You mean you can’t hate in the Pit? Boy, those mods have their work cut out for them!
Hating is allowed, it’s mentioning it that’s forbidden.
Accept that most Native Americans prefer it. As blacks prefer “black” to African American.
That is, most do. So I wouldn’t sweat it. Unless I was in a sweat lodge…
Tsk. Nobody mentioned the greatest reference of all?
Though admittedly Cecil was pretty much just Googling this one.
So which is it? “Often offensive” (which implies it’s sometimes not offensive), “offensive”, or “extremely offensive”? It can’t be all three.
Sure it can. Depending on tone, context, etc.
Specifically, for students from other countries who don’t speak English as a native language. It’s useful for explaining things that native speakers take for granted, such as the difference between few and a few, or how to use just, already, and yet.
The cultural subtleties that determine whether a word is offensive is hard enough for native speakers, apparently, let alone for those who don’t have the advantage of a lifetime within the society.
By this argument we shouldn’t be calling Slavs Slavs because they’re not slaves, the Slavs shouldn’t be calling the Germans nemets because they’re not mute, the Germans shouldn’t be calling the Swiss Schweizer because they don’t all come from Schwyz, and so on ad nauseam. Fortunately etymology does not determine the literal meaning of a word.
Unless they are badly sunburned.
If a Native American gets a sunburn… eh, nevermind. More of a GQ question.
Joey Belladonna can still wear his hat, right? Grandfather clause?
Not sure what your getting at. Seems to me that hate speech is fine as long as its in the form of well constructed sentences/paragraphs.
OTOH a couple of words and the so-called “hate speech” become the baby-mama of the race card… or whatever card serves the desired purpose.
Umm… Woosh? I didn’t have a point. You made a joke. I responded with another one. Unless your previous post had a serious point, and I missed it, in which case the woosh is on me.
The term Native American shouldnt be allowed in GQ because its not factual; humans arent native to the Americas.
They aren’t? :dubious:
Cite, please?
Seeing’s how they’ve been ‘in situ’ for at least the last ten thousand years, IMHO you can’t get much more “native” than that.
an animal or plant indigenous to a place: the marigold is a native of southern Europe
Humans arent indigenous to the Americas. Native American conveys more of a political twist than a factual one.
Neither are any of the animals or plants there. If you trace their lineage back far enough, they all come from somewhere else.
Like Pangaea.
Evidence please. Brazil has the greatest biodiversity in the world. This IMO would indicate that it has the most native animal and plant species in the world.
“Brazil is considered to have the greatest biodiversity of any country on the planet.”
Hmm.
Going to Merriam-Webster for indigenous we find
While humans migrated to the Americas from elsewhere, the many human cultures that were found in the Americas when Europeans showed up clearly arose in the Americas and since a people is identified by its culture, native appears to be quite accurate. The references to the American indigenes generally refers to Aztec, Chinook, Inca, Iroquois, or Yanomamo, etc. peoples, not general humanity. (In fact, if one looks at the “Native American” vs “Indian” discussions, one discovers that often a person will express a desire to be identified by his or her tribal appellation, accepting “Indian” as a general term, but not really preferring it.) Your argument would have greater traction, (though it would still fail), if you noted that Indian appears to be preferred by the people so identified, but like Negro and colored, Native American is simply not currently popular among that group while being neither pejorative nor inaccurate.
(Using the word “human” in place of persons or people would appear to be the “political” effort as it attempts to set a different standard for gauging whether or not a word conveys correct meaning, regardless of the word’s ability to actually convey that meaning. 
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