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Re: Amerind an offensive term (was: Early Amerind assimilation
Stephen Barnard (steve@megafauna.com)
Sun, 11 Aug 1996 08:48:50 -0800
Eric Brunner wrote:
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> Bryant (mycol1@unm.edu) wrote:
> : In article <4udbdo$fmt@bone.think.com>,
> : Eric Brunner <brunner@mandrake.think.com> wrote:
> : >: >> Bryant wrote:
> : >: Who said I'm an anthropologist?! Can you guys perhaps attack the
> : >: content of my posts instead of using all these straw-man characterizations?
> : >
> : >Your post had limited content, since you addressed no standing litigation
> : >issues. Sorry I didn't get around to pointing that out to you a few days
> : >ago, my system was being user-unfriendly.
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> : Limited or no, and despite it's being rather tongue-in-cheek in nature,
> : my post did posit a question which can be easily answered: Responding to
> : the characterization of Euro- and Afro- and Asian-Americans as
> : "squatters" (presumably on native american lands), I asked if other late
> : comers (like the Dine who dispossessed pueblo groups of their lands)
> : should also be considered "squatters."
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> The ease of the answer (possibly the inverse of the utility of the answer)
> depends on what your question really means. Is your question framed in your
> mind as a question of ethics, or morals, or laws?
>
Bryant is simply trying to determine what you mean by "squatters", and whether
you willing to use the term in a consistent, non-racist way. From the way
you're wiggling around the question, like a politician asked about abortion or
taxes, I have to assume that the answer is "no".
Steve Barnard
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