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This place is fascinating. These people have never left the Clinton era.

"Slurs are playing Switch in their igloos" would make for a good tagline if it weren't so problematic

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    3 days ago

    People in many parts of the Arctic consider it a derogatory term because it was widely used by racist, non-native colonizers.

    I dunno if "slur" is the right word but I couldn't think of any other word to define its grossness

    • the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]
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      3 hours ago

      Yeah though maybe not created to be a slur iirc it was a name an outside tribe called the inuit, not one they ever gave themselves, which is enough reason to avoid it. I think it was the official name for the indigenous of canada until like the 80s