Edit: Meme has been slightly altered to be more accurate. Credit to @ininewcrow for the updated and better image.
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Context is important here.
I wouldn't be offended at a team called Caucasians, filled entirely with Indian players. But I don't live in the same universe that Indian people do.
But maybe if white people made up 2% of the population, after being systematically eliminated by Indians to make use of our land, maybe if white people were relegated to the poorest, least productive areas of the country and told to be thankful for it, and maybe if the word Caucasian was kind of a rude way to refer to my skin color, I could see myself being offended at the idea.
It's hilarious that you're trying to defend Native Americans but call them "Indians".
So you speak for ALL American Indians, then? Do I speak for ALL Germans? Or have I been in the US long enough that I'm no longer German? My grandmother was born in Germany, is that too far? Or is it just skin color, I speak for all whites, no matter the country or culture of origin? I'm curious to the rules here- I shouldn't speak for American Indians because I'm not one, right? So who can speak for all American Indians and all 547 distinct tribes (federally recognized)? Do you speak for every tribe? If not you, then who? Your phrasing was "Unless you're American indian", so... yes? You speak for all 547 tribes and 5.2 million people?
Buuuuuut.... you did say "Unless you're American indian", so that does imply that you or someone else CAN speak for all of a group. So I'm a bit confused here. I will call you whatever you'd like me to call you, including "Indian" on its own if that's what you'd prefer to be called (even though that doesn't make sense to me), but you didn't actually answer my questions. Let me try again- how is it bigoted to not assume that a group of people would want to be called something that is fundamentally incorrect by definition, has a turbulent history, and is not what most federal programs call them- you yourself say that the benefits go to "American Indians", not "Indians".
Thanks for the coloring page, is it one of your favorites?