Timeline for Why are Native/Indigenous Americans still called "American Indians" by the U.S. government?
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| Oct 23, 2018 at 5:26 | comment | added | user11249 | I'll take your word for it @jamesqf; I'm not from the US and not very familiar with the topic at hand, and have no real opinion either way. It's just that for the casually interested European (i.e. me) it just seems that your conclusion makes a leap from its source (which doesn't mean it's false, just not evident that it's true). | |
| Oct 18, 2018 at 17:20 | comment | added | jamesqf | @Martin Tournoij: But if you look at how a lot of American Indians feel about being labeled with the PC term "Native American", you'll find that it's rather offensive to many, whereas "Indian" is fairly neutral. | |
| Oct 18, 2018 at 3:21 | comment | added | user11249 | People opposing political correctness doesn't mean they oppose every instance of what some might call "political correctness". People seem to have vastly different ideas on what is "PC", just as people seem to have different ideas on what constitutes e.g. sexism. Very few people are in favour of sexism, but there is disagreement on what constitutes sexism, so being "against sexism" doesn't mean "against [specific instance of alleged sexism]". The same applies to PC. In other words: your conclusion (specifically "point b") does not necessarily follow from your source. | |
| Oct 18, 2018 at 3:05 | history | answered | jamesqf | CC BY-SA 4.0 |