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It makes you wonder if someday descendants of the people murdered by
an ancient East Germanic tribe when they sacked Rome and Carthage
might someday look in horror upon a small college town in Idaho that
had the gall to name their sports team after their killers.<br>
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Same thing with people that have been mauled by cougars or bears.<br>
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Paul<br>
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On 10/03/2011 07:02 AM, Tom Hansen wrote:
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<div>Courtesy of Dr. John E. Koontz, Department of
Linguistics, University of Colorado at:</div>
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href="http://spot.colorado.edu/%7Ekoontz/faq/etymology.htm">http://spot.colorado.edu/~koontz/faq/etymology.htm</a>
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<h3 style="font-family: 'times new roman','Times New
Roman',Times; font-size: medium;"><font face="arial,
Arial, Helvetica"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
name="squaw2">Is squaw a bad word?</a></font></h3>
<p style="font-family: 'times new roman','Times New
Roman',Times; font-size: medium;">The etymology is
perfectly innocent. The problem with squaw has
nothing to do with its etymology. Nigger has a
perfectly unobjectionable etymology in Spanish <b>negro</b> 'black',
for example. The difficulty with nigger is that it
came to embody and represent a discriminatory attitude
toward blacks. Similarly, the difficulty with squaw
is that it is associated with a discriminatory
attitude toward Indian people and sometimes by
extension toward women generally. </p>
<p style="font-family: 'times new roman','Times New
Roman',Times; font-size: medium;">The pattern of
racism associated with squaw is not readily perceived
by many people today, especially by non-Indians,
perhaps because the word squaw is obsolescent, found
mainly in historical literature and movies, or as a
fossil in placenames and expressions like squawfish,
squaw dance or squaw corn (a term I actually first
heard used quite innocently by an Omaha man). It
seems inoffensive to many people in these contexts,
and they don't see any point in avoiding it, even
though the same people would never use a form like
nigger, and may instinctively avoid placenames based
on such forms, as well as fossil expressions like
niggertoes and perhaps even the wholly unconnected
word niggardly. </p>
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<div>Another thing concerning offensive language . . .</div>
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<div>As many schools have reestablished school mascots,
so as not to seem offensive (i.e. Stanford University
Indians reestablished as Stanford University Cardinal)
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<div>WHY haven't the Washington REDSKINS, an NFL team in
our nation's capitol (for God's sake!), been required
to establish a more appropriate mascot???</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="">Tom
Hansen</span></div>
<div>Moscow, Idaho</div>
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