Thank you for your civil response and your explanation. I appreciate both.
The problem I have with the words "cunt" and "dick" is that they apply to one gender in a disparaging way. Our language contains a lot of words that are commonly used--often in casual ways that have nothing to do with their technical meaning--that add a built-in condemnation of certain groups.
A lot of those words are now on their way out and that's a good thing. Language is a powerful thing and can be used to sway opinions and emotions. It can also lead to bigotry. A powerful tactic is to label a group and then assign to them negative characteristics, as if they were all alike.
A group once did a fake survey in which one question had either of two forms. The question was1. Do your support the Nicaragua freedom fighters?versus2. Do you support the Nicaragua contras?Same question basically, but the first one got a far more positive response than the second just because of the wording chosen.
Your use of "cunt" was not bigoted, but it uses a word that is. There are a lot of words disparaging women. "Cunt" is one of the worst, but there are many others. I don't think any group can achieve equality when they are attacked by a culture's language.
I have had to reform my own use of smear words and probably still slip up. I've done well eliminating "dick," though I still miss "testosterone poisoning." The problem is that those insults don't apply just to the person I used them on and I think that's wrong.
I think we should call any group of people what they want to be called. The problem is that sometimes it's hard to tell and usually different members of the group want different things.
Lest my history fails me, Columbus mistakenly named them Indians thinking that he had landed in the Indies.I really have never heard what Indians went by before that.
That's the argument that white assholes use -- "Everyone's an immigrant!" Now, when you have immigrated to a place and lived there for many, many thousands of years, and some jerks show up a few hundred years ago and steal that land because "everyone's an immigrant," I'd say there is a rather large problem with the application of the word immigrant. I grew up in New York state on Seneca Nation land, and, as the Keepers of the Western Door of the Long House of the Iroquois Confederacy, the Senecas are -- by tradition and inclination -- badasses. They fight their battles with lawyers now, and have fought the state to a standstill on numerous issues over the years. Historically they had the longest unbroken treaty in the nation, until the construction of the Kinzua Dam around 1960 flooded a lot of reservation land. The feds paid the Senecas pennies on the dollar for the land, but it amounted to millions, and the Senecas used it to hire grant writers, to bring in more money, and lawyers. They have not been defeated in battle since then.
Not a single aspect of Joe is accurate.
Wissahickon is gone? Is the park still called that?
I don't think that the Ramapough are a federally recognized tribe.
Why should you want to? I like sitting in my car staying warm while someone else does it.
Thank you for your civil response and your explanation. I appreciate both.
The problem I have with the words "cunt" and "dick" is that they apply to one gender in a disparaging way. Our language contains a lot of words that are commonly used--often in casual ways that have nothing to do with their technical meaning--that add a built-in condemnation of certain groups.
A lot of those words are now on their way out and that's a good thing. Language is a powerful thing and can be used to sway opinions and emotions. It can also lead to bigotry. A powerful tactic is to label a group and then assign to them negative characteristics, as if they were all alike.
A group once did a fake survey in which one question had either of two forms. The question was1. Do your support the Nicaragua freedom fighters?versus2. Do you support the Nicaragua contras?Same question basically, but the first one got a far more positive response than the second just because of the wording chosen.
Your use of "cunt" was not bigoted, but it uses a word that is. There are a lot of words disparaging women. "Cunt" is one of the worst, but there are many others. I don't think any group can achieve equality when they are attacked by a culture's language.
I have had to reform my own use of smear words and probably still slip up. I've done well eliminating "dick," though I still miss "testosterone poisoning." The problem is that those insults don't apply just to the person I used them on and I think that's wrong.
You've never met organized religion?
I think we should call any group of people what they want to be called. The problem is that sometimes it's hard to tell and usually different members of the group want different things.
True, but they didn't do that in America. They did it in their own private Fantasy Land bubble.
Perhaps the Indians should offer to remove all their religious symbols and cease prayer if the town agrees to do the same. And the town goes first.
He didn't even pick a patriotic name or sarcastic phrase. What kind of troll does that?
Lest my history fails me, Columbus mistakenly named them Indians thinking that he had landed in the Indies.I really have never heard what Indians went by before that.
So far as I know.
People need more poetry in their souls.
That's the argument that white assholes use -- "Everyone's an immigrant!" Now, when you have immigrated to a place and lived there for many, many thousands of years, and some jerks show up a few hundred years ago and steal that land because "everyone's an immigrant," I'd say there is a rather large problem with the application of the word immigrant. I grew up in New York state on Seneca Nation land, and, as the Keepers of the Western Door of the Long House of the Iroquois Confederacy, the Senecas are -- by tradition and inclination -- badasses. They fight their battles with lawyers now, and have fought the state to a standstill on numerous issues over the years. Historically they had the longest unbroken treaty in the nation, until the construction of the Kinzua Dam around 1960 flooded a lot of reservation land. The feds paid the Senecas pennies on the dollar for the land, but it amounted to millions, and the Senecas used it to hire grant writers, to bring in more money, and lawyers. They have not been defeated in battle since then.
Nah, Maybe, RMS is right. HOAs are MUCH worse than religious zealots.
The rest of it, too. It was no simple cakewalk by colonial jerks. It was a fight throughout the Americas.
Indigenous domestic native. NDN.