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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 150: Moore votes the better to speak Frank(en)ly
StealThisSheen 11/27/17 8:44:08 PM #39:	Lopen posted... StealThisSheen posted... Squanto was also a respected figure and isn't really "racially charged," but that's typically used negatively in the same way "Ching-Chang" is. Well, I've personally never heard of Squanto being used in that way so I glossed over it. To me it'd be pretty similar to Pocahontas-- you'd need to read into context to determine whether it's racist or not. "Squanto" is the typical "Generic Native American name" used to label/be dismissive/etc. "Tonto" is a close second. The point is that you'd be very hard pressed to find somebody purposely calling somebody by another name like that to be something positive. You'd typically find such things to be said as "Like Pocahontas," or "This generation's Pocahontas." Just throwing it out at somebody of that ancestry pretty much has no way of being intended to be positive, because you're basically stripping them of identity, which is the whole point of when it's used as an insult. When people say stuff like "Whatever you say, Squanto," they're implying you're not worth being identified beyond your skin color/background/whatever and the generic name they've applied to those people. --- Seplito Nash, Smelling Like the Vault since 1996 Step FOUR! Get Paid! <cite>StealThisSheen posted [p:891170854] in Politics C... [t:76036869]...</cite> <quote><cite>Lopen posted...</cite> <quote><cite>StealThisSheen posted...</cite> <quote>Squanto was also a respected figure and isn't really "racially charged," but that's typically used negatively in the same way "Ching-Chang" is.</quote> Well, I've personally never heard of Squanto being used in that way so I glossed over it. To me it'd be pretty similar to Pocahontas-- you'd need to read into context to determine whether it's racist or not.</quote> "Squanto" is the typical "Generic Native American name" used to label/be dismissive/etc. "Tonto" is a close second. The point is that you'd be very hard pressed to find somebody purposely calling somebody by another name like that to be something positive. You'd typically find such things to be said as "Like Pocahontas," or "This generation's Pocahontas." Just throwing it out at somebody of that ancestry pretty much has no way of being intended to be positive, because you're basically stripping them of identity, which is the whole point of when it's used as an insult. When people say stuff like "Whatever you say, Squanto," they're implying you're not worth being identified beyond your skin color/background/whatever and the generic name they've applied to those people. --- Seplito Nash, Smelling Like the Vault since 1996 Step FOUR! Get Paid!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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