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Not to take away from your message but you can just say "Native Americans" and leave the "Indian" part off. Otherwise I totally agree with your post.
by wavefunction 13y ago
Not to take away from your message but you can just say "Native Americans" and leave the "Indian" part off.
Otherwise I totally agree with your post.
- jvm 13y agoAlso generalizing to all native Americans everywhere is sort of a needless display of ignorance.
- protomyth 13y agoPlus, it masks very real problems on the reservations with some "everything is groovy" crud.
- jvm 13y agoAlso generalizing to all native Americans everywhere is sort of a needless display of ignorance.
- benihana 13y agoThis comment sums up what Hacker News has become perfectly. Front and center is the sentence correcting some slight, inconsequential anachronism that has nothing to do with the overall point of the comment and only serves to show the perceived intelligence of helpfulness of the commenter. Then there is a short sentence, more of an afterthought, addressing the point of the comment.
- _yields 13y agothank you for saying this.
- wavefunction 13y agoWhy, you couldn't say it yourself?
- epo 13y ago'cos the other guy got there first and it would have been pointless repetition, Though the 'thank you' was pretty pointless really.
- seiji 13y agoWell, have you met these people? It's common in work/life too. "You're smart and do good work, but stop being so pedantic and socially inept!" You can't break out deep thinking from the surface layer aspie absent-social-mindedness. Just smile, accept them for what they are without pitying them, and keep making the world a better place together.
- Gigablah 13y agoYou could start by not masking your condescension with some sort of vague higher purpose.
- wavefunction 13y agoMaybe I made a simple mistake of unintended rudeness in a post, how does that make it worthy of me being autistic? Fuck you douches!
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- protomyth 13y agoUhm, quite a lot of tribes would disagree with you. American Indian is preferred by many.
- tokenadult 13y ago"American Indian" is an official term, and moreover it is a term DESIRED by some aboriginal rights activists in the United States, like the founders of the American Indian Movement (AIM). http://www.aimovement.org/ http://www.aimovement.org/
- strathmeyer 13y agoSome blacks like to be called nigger, what's your point??
- wavefunction 13y agoMy point was more about the redundancy rather than an attempt to be pedantic or politically correct, but go ahead and downvote...