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Would you call a Native American "redskin" to their face? [W:166]

Would you call a Native American "redskin" to their face?


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This is a better question than the other poll.

If your answer is "no," you should ponder why not. And maybe even post why not in this thread.
 
Re: Would you call a Native American "redskin" to their face?

Well, actually I have done so, but I have a good many NA friends, and they know it isn't an insult coming from me, but that I am kidding with them.
 
Re: Would you call a Native American "redskin" to their face?

This is a better question than the other poll.

If your answer is "no," you should ponder why not. And maybe even post why not in this thread.
No. But I might call them an Indian, which I think is also considered offensive.

In other words, the reason I wouldn't call them "redskin" has nothing to do with political correctness and more because I just wouldn't. To me, a Redskin is someone in pads playing football in DC.
 
Re: Would you call a Native American "redskin" to their face?

Absolutely no. It is a slur.
 
Re: Would you call a Native American "redskin" to their face?

I've been called Paleface as a joke, of course I've responded with a grin and Redskin.

Never around my mother's sisters though. My great grandmother on that side did all she could to avoid having herself and her family being shipped off to Oklahoma.
 
Re: Would you call a Native American "redskin" to their face?

Come on people, you would all avoid calling a Native American a redskin in a non-joking manner. That is the question in this poll, and making it about 'joking' is just a dodge of the question.

Conversation with a person to whom you had been just introduced:

You: Interesting last name :)
New Person: Oh, thank you, I am Native American.
You: Oh, a redskin.

NOT going to happen.
 
Re: Would you call a Native American "redskin" to their face?

Sure, why not? They call me honkey/cracker/white boy/white man/white devil/Yankee/redneck/mick/Anglo/etc. Do I get butt hurt? Nope, I just return fire.
 
Re: Would you call a Native American "redskin" to their face?

You: Interesting last name :)
New Person: Oh, thank you, I am Native American.
You: Oh, a redskin.

NOT going to happen.

Actually, I'd most likely ask them which tribe, and if they dance the pow wow circuit, then find out where they are from, and whether or not they can make their own traditional regalia. I spent years dancing in pow-wows, and learned how to make my own regalia, including extensive beadwork, leatherworking, and moccasin making. Native Americans aren't typically hostile at all. They drive Chevy trucks rather than horses these days, just like the rest of us. If everyone would try to stop being so freakin uptight about offending someone these days, and actually spend some time getting to know other people with different backgrounds, maybe all you people with severe cases of white guilt could get over your angst. It's rather pathetic.
 
Re: Would you call a Native American "redskin" to their face?

I already have numerous of times. And I've been called yellow eyes many times.

But I also lived on the rez in the past.

Redskin is not a slur.
 
Re: Would you call a Native American "redskin" to their face?

No. Wouldnt be respectable.
 
Re: Would you call a Native American "redskin" to their face?

Yes I would, and I would expect them to call me a "White Devil" then we would exchange obsenities and part ways. I am not afraid of being offensive or controversial. In fact I pride myself in being offensive and controversial screw PC.
 
Re: Would you call a Native American "redskin" to their face?

Come on people, you would all avoid calling a Native American a redskin in a non-joking manner. That is the question in this poll, and making it about 'joking' is just a dodge of the question.

Conversation with a person to whom you had been just introduced:

You: Interesting last name :)
New Person: Oh, thank you, I am Native American.
You: Oh, a redskin.

NOT going to happen.

Was the name Two Dogs ****ing?

Look, that's not something I would comment on to begin with, the last name thing. Now if someone I didn't know randomly blurted out at me that they are "Native American", I'd grin and find something else to do somewhere else. Folks who identify strongly with race are generally no fun to be around. I'd have as few words with him as possible.
 
Re: Would you call a Native American "redskin" to their face?

This is a better question than the other poll.

If your answer is "no," you should ponder why not. And maybe even post why not in this thread.

We goofed on a Cherokee friend as a Redskin and he goofed on us back about being a Pale Face. I would not call a Danish man a Viking either. I wouldn't call anybody anything to their face other than ma'am, sir, etc.
 
Re: Would you call a Native American "redskin" to their face?

If I was really pissed off, I might. It's an invitation to do battle.
I'm beginning to see that it's different in the US. I'm in Canada and the term is seen differently here. I lived in the north, married a Metis woman and I worked for nearly 30 years in a trade that attracts Native men (structural Ironworker) and all my feedback is that the term 'redskin' is an insult but the information I've been pointed to here says that American Natives don't see it that way.
So I guess it's not an insult if you're in the US but be prepared to back it up if you're in a bar in northern Canada.
 
Re: Would you call a Native American "redskin" to their face?

Most Indians cringe when you call them Native Americans.
 
Re: Would you call a Native American "redskin" to their face?

Come on people, you would all avoid calling a Native American a redskin in a non-joking manner. That is the question in this poll, and making it about 'joking' is just a dodge of the question.

Conversation with a person to whom you had been just introduced:

You: Interesting last name :)
New Person: Oh, thank you, I am Native American.
You: Oh, a redskin.

NOT going to happen.

The question is ridiculous. Who goes out of their way to call a person anything other than there name?
 
Re: Would you call a Native American "redskin" to their face?

Most Indians cringe when you call them Native Americans.

Quite frankly, the ones that I know want to be called by name, and known for their tribal group. There is an unbelievable amount of intertribal politics among NA's as a whole, even today.
 
Re: Would you call a Native American "redskin" to their face?

Context, context.
 
Re: Would you call a Native American "redskin" to their face?

not to his face and not to his back. It is a statement close to racist, the N-word for the native Americans.
 
Re: Would you call a Native American "redskin" to their face?

not to his face and not to his back. It is a statement close to racist, the N-word for the native Americans.

Do they even have Indians in the Netherlands? :mrgreen:
 
Re: Would you call a Native American "redskin" to their face?

Quite frankly, the ones that I know want to be called by name, and known for their tribal group. There is an unbelievable amount of intertribal politics among NA's as a whole, even today.
That is precisely correct. If you want to refer to their heritage, you should inquire about their tribe.

Ive mentioned this before, but we had some people down from the Walk In Center do a presentation and Q and A for a group presentation in College. After the presentation, one of the young pink cheeked college students up front delicately danced and hemmed and hawed and finally said "I dont know what to call you." His response..."I like 'Joe'." He then went on to explain he was Navajo and not just Navajo but from a specific 'clan' (and I dont remember what his was). He personally found Native American insulting. Indians in this country grew up for centuries with the general label as 'Indian'. They are cool with it as long as people understand that Indian is like calling people 'white'. It really means nothing.
 
Re: Would you call a Native American "redskin" to their face?

not to his face and not to his back. It is a statement close to racist, the N-word for the native Americans.
What is this 'N-word' you speak of?
 
Re: Would you call a Native American "redskin" to their face?

Most Indians cringe when you call them Native Americans.

Untrue.
Well, okay, delete the 'american' part. Most Natives I know cringe when called 'Indians'. And the ones I've worked with who lived on reservations that spanned the border didn't consider themselves American or Canadian, the called themselves Mohawk. I don't know how it is with Navaho or Apache or whoever but there's lots of Natives in the north who consider (rightly) that the term 'treaty' describes an agreement between nations.
 
Re: Would you call a Native American "redskin" to their face?

Do they even have Indians in the Netherlands? :mrgreen:

We have some native Americans from Surinam who are living in the Netherlands but not of the indian nations of North America.

We did however have a trading relationship with the native Americans The Dutch and the Indians | Native American Netroots

But we too have groups of people living in the Netherlands for which there are derogatory words that should not be said IMHO. That was my big problem with Theo van Gogh and also with Geert Wilders, they treat everybody in a group as one and Wilders has the tendency to denounce all of one group by the actions of a small minority of said group.
 
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