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Radiant-Shine-8575 t1_j6t8obg wrote

Reply to comment by HerpToxic in Harvard women's hockey coach under fire after reported racist comments to Indigenous players by zsreport

Yeah this in not a new phrase. It's also not racist. Maybe insensitive at best if there are native americans on the teams. Could have been- Too many generals and not enough soldiers.

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irrelevantmango t1_j6tfjv3 wrote

> Maybe insensitive at best if there are native americans on the teams

According to the article there are two.

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Miigwech t1_j6u0d1p wrote

Jesus christ. Just because it has slipped into regular use of the lexicon of society doesn't mean it's not racist. It's absolutely astounding how terms that have been generated about Native groups or terms are just accepted as okay because it "just means x".

I don't think this woman should be fired because it's fucking blatantly obvious from this thread alone that it's based off of ignorance and not malice.

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imgladimnothim t1_j6vcru0 wrote

I mean, how did that phrase ever catch on after the "not enough indians" part? You ponder that part of the phrase for even just 5 seconds and its pretty obvious. Maybe don't remind your native players about just how tiny a fraction of their peoples are left after what the european settlers first did to them all those years ago?

I mean i don't think its racist really, its kinda more like asking your jewish friend why judaism seems so unpopular compared to the other abrahamic religions, only for them to remind you that it used to be quite a bit more popular until around the 1940s.

Its not so much that its racist, its more that you just look like an ignorant jack ass.

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TheloniousCrunk t1_j6wqgy3 wrote

Jesus Christ, this gave me a nosebleed. What the fuck are you actually taking about? I'm sorry to be rude, but how is this your take?

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mattyoclock t1_j6ugjnl wrote

It’s not a new phrase and might not have been said with racist intent, but it’s still racist as hell.

There was a street I knew growing up that was originally called “n-word hollow”. And the old people would sometimes use that name giving directions because that’s what they always called it.

It doesn’t stop being a racist phrase because they were just giving directions.

I knew another old lady who called macadamia nuts n-word toes, is that fine and acceptable just because she means macadamia nuts? It was a common phrase for a hundred years and just means some nuts after all.

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CaptLatinAmerica t1_j6v37gb wrote

Let’s get one thing straight here: you mean Brazil nuts, not macadamia nuts.

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mattyoclock t1_j6v9ttl wrote

Do I? The triangular ones with the really tough shells anyways.

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CaptLatinAmerica t1_j6vd3dt wrote

YES THOSE

Macadamia nuts are also famously hard to crack but they are commonly referred to as gypsy’s nipples, Polish noses, Jew-warts, Seventh Day Adventist hemorrhoids, or Samoan carbuncles.

Certainly not racist.

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