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Originally Posted by Kevin
The Sioux isn't a race. It's a tribe or rather a collection of tribes with similar culture.
And it's not as if that was the only example I gave.
Where are the aggrieved Scandinavians?
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But Native Americans are a distinctive group of people who, as clemsongirl perfectly stated, have faced hundreds of years of systematic discrimination, denial of opportunity, and cultural erasure.
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Originally Posted by Kevin
Your constructs of race, ethnicity and culture are entirely artificial as is the amount of deference you think the rest of us should give them.
This isn't about good manners, this is about schools facing serious sanctions if they name their mascots after native Americans. There's a point where it has gone from asking that people be polite and respect each other to forcing your views on other through extortion.
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Originally Posted by Kevin
Not really clueless, I just don't accept your premises as being any more than artificial constructs.
That said, I'm from Oklahoma. I'm surrounded by Native people. They aren't discriminated against at all. In fact, they get free food, healthcare and even stipend checks from their enormously profitable operations which operate behind "sovereign" governments that don't compete on a level playing field with our other businesses.
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Really.
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