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[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

A sentiment I've heard a bunch is "oh, so you called us Indians and now you're uncomfortable with that label? Well fuck you, you don't get to keep unilaterally changing what's acceptable. If thinking about colonialism makes you uncomfortable, then great! Start sitting with that discomfort and recognising the crumb of self determination that we express by identifying as Indians. You gave us that label, and it's ours now."

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

So the people trying to make the term more accurate are the same ones that started calling then Indian in the first place? In other words, all white people are the same? That's one hell of an advanced Reverse UNO