[ SECRET POST #2490 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2490 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

you know the "Redskins" controversy? my sis works at a casino and has been asking her Native American coworkers how they feel about the name Redskins. they are all like *shrug*.

[(Anonymous)]

There are way, WAY bigger issues on First Peoples'/Aboriginals' plates right now, tbph:

http://www.idlenomore.ca/

(Check out the map after the splash screen. It's a global movement, but there's no way you'll see anything in the mainstream media news about it.)

[(Anonymous)]

That's cool. A lot of my Native American/First Nation/etc friends are more like "*shrug* yeah, it's offensive. It's not news."

Wacky how people are different with different opinions!

[(Anonymous)]

The best was when the one sportswriter wrote a column about how his Native American father-in-law thought the name was fine, and therefore it was fine, and the people who want it changed are the real racists, and they're trying to speak for Native Americans and "put them on a reservation again", and all that stuff.

And then like two weeks later his father-in-law wrote an article on a website in which he basically said, "What, no, I never said that, the name is totally offensive and should be changed, I have no idea what he's talking about".

[(Anonymous)]

That's gonna be awkward.

[chardmonster]

She might be getting shrugs because it's really awkward to have people asking you questions about race relations when you're just trying to do your job at the casino.

I mean if you asked me out of the blue "HEY CHARDMONSTER WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT IMAGES OF ARABS IN POPULAR CULTURE" and I'd be like "Shrug dude I need to grade these papers"

[(Anonymous)]

That's a little weird of your sister to be doing.

It's also a little weird that you had to mention the casino part. Like you couldn't say "my sis works with Native American coworkers", you had to mention the stereotype job too.

But that's just me being annoying. What the real issue here is that it's sometimes considered rude to go up to people of a demographic that you are not part of and ask their opinion on a topic, or to act as though they speak for the entire demographic. I have this happen with lgbt issues, and it's annoying because I am not your damn token figurehead. And a lot of the time it's an issue that doesn't effect them at all and that is a lot more detailed than I feel like getting into. I'm not just here as "the gay one", and her coworkers aren't there as just "the Native Americans" that she can poll.

[(Anonymous)]

Seems to me she just gave the job as an explanation of why a lot of American Indians work with her sister.

[(Anonymous)]

and when she's gone they're all like, "Wow, can you believe that girl?"