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We kind of deserve it (startrek.website)
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Edit: Meme has been slightly altered to be more accurate. Credit to @ininewcrow for the updated and better image.

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[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm using the term I've been told to use to describe a group of people, by that group of people. Or at least a group of that people. If someone of that group comes up with a different term they'd like me to use I'll happily use that, until then, I'll use the last term I know to have been acceptable.

If you're a member of that group and prefer a different term, then make that known.

If you're not a member of that group, then you're making assumptions for a group of people and calling it respect while completely disregarding the wishes of the people to whom you're attempting to refer.

[-] PrinceHabib72@lemmy.sdf.org -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not disregarding wishes. I'll call any INDIVIDUAL whatever they want to be called. Groups will be referred to by the most accurate and accepted name. Indians are from India and it's ridiculous to call Native Americans/American Indians that. It's as ridiculous as calling any black person "African American", like when the interviewer insisted on that terminology for Idris Elba, a black British man. That's it. I'm not calling them "Redskins", for example. I'm using a perfectly respectful and accepted term and not one that may or may not be accepted, depending on who you ask, and not one that is literally incorrect.

Edit: There's a person directly below this comment whose relatives hate the term "Indian".

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