My mom actually helped found this as an on-campus student group back in the '70s, basically as a way of extending the middle finger at the people who actually used it as a slur towards herself and other Natives. Kind of laughable in some ways how limited some racist assholes are in coming up with their slurs, you know, by just adding a word to an existing one. But then, some of us have a darker sense of humor than others.
You know you're desperate when you're not even being a poor man's Volpone but a poor man's Federal Farmer.
It is a worthy subject to discuss and taking a negative term and try to turn it into a positive is the justification some black people state as the reason they personally use the n word.
But he gets so pissy about "apple" while demanding everyone else chill out about "nigger" and "kike." I don't really feel comfortable doing it, but it's arguably worthwhile to highlight his hypocrisy.
Had this been a random thread you may have a point. But the intent is damned obvious, especially as this comes immediately off the back of not only the douche trolling of Ramen, Volpone, Poodle and Federal Foetus but also a Help Desk thread in which Captain Prat was demanding absolute free speech so you could continue to be a racist scumbag.
Even more to the point, remember how butthurt he got when I asked him if his family was full native American and he cried racism and complained because he assumed it was meant to be some sort of racial slur (even though it wasn't)? Now he's suddenly cool with persistent, nasty bigotry if it's done in the name of "free speech".
My level. The OP is literally a true story. I'm not even kidding. They've already shown what level they're at with this stuff. Pissy? No, I find it hilarious when a racist rapist apologist such as yourself uses it specifically because you claim to be some kind of enlightened "progressive" who's above all that, and just like with Liet, I've given you shit on that basis. I've also been consistently pro-free speech, so it's pretty obvious who the hypocrite here is, and it isn't me. I wasn't butthurt, I was calling you a hypocrite on the same basis as Liet and the rapist apologist there, because, believe it not, I've seen prejudice along those lines before which claims that you have to be fully Native to count as Native. Shocking, I know. Who said I'm cool with it? How often do you see me use racial slurs in any context? I am pretty stubborn, though, so if someone tells me I can't say something, I'm sure as hell going to say it. In this case it has the added benefit of being based on the truth. "Prairie Nigger" was indeed a slur directed at Natives (and still is by some people) and for one group of them, forming a student organization with this name was their reaction to it. It was their way of telling the people who used it as a slur to go fuck themselves, because the slur was essentially meaningless. And sharing this story is my way of doing the same to all the moral busybodies that are so damn worried over a word. What's even more hilarious and helps to drive this point home is the repeated use of the term "apple" being applied to me, which I've noticed none of you moral busybodies have really said anything against. Could almost be taken as support for it, some would say. Or "twinkie" to Asians. The upshot is that it's something of a double-whammy in that it insists all people who belong to a certain racial group should be a certain way while simultaneously expressing disdain for white people, because white people are also all the same, and how dare anyone try to sneak out of their box with a convenient label on it? People should all be the fucking same as what that label says, right?
Yeah, I'm not familiar with the term, but from context I'm guessing it's some sort of slur against native Americans. If so, can't say I'm too impressed by people using it. But it is interesting that Captain X of all people complains about it, given his otherwise militant position on free speech.
I'm not complaining about it, I'm laughing my ass of that people who pat themselves on the back about how "progressive" they are are straight up using a racial slur. Meanwhile, the rest of you are complaining about slurs like the word nigger, and how just letting it be will somehow show the board supports it, while doing the same exact thing with other slurs. Fucking' hilarious. Yes. My use of it is, and I'd hoped the fact I rarely ever use the word might, I don't know, have some significance or something, but I guess it was entirely lost on my audience.
The "apple" thing is only somewhat apt because @Captain X kept harping on the "oreo" thing with Liet longer than anybody else. Nevertheless, I agree it is rude and uncalled for, just as "oreo" was.
I have little desire to discuss my personal life here, but my racial background is very similar to Captain X's. I've even had similar issues with the attitudes of my fellow Aboriginals towards mixed race individuals, but those experiences didn't turn me into an self-loathing, anti-minority douchebag. I've already said above that I'm not a fan of the term, but if anyone here has license to use it, it's me.
Maybe you should read 14th Doctor's statement in this thread about why he's using it, Captain Hypocrisy.
. Likewise...1/4 here. It's almost a fact of life in Ontario (if not Canada) that if your kin goes back before 1930 here, there's likely some FN in ya.