and has probably lead to an undue demonization of "acting white" (wanting a higher or better education and a stripe of industriousness) on the basis of the majority of white people they interact with basically talking down to them.

like

Please white people just leave black people alone 2020.
The complete coddling is nothing but detrimental

i'm a fucking native american, aight?

if some guilty white guy offered me help jsut because of that

i'd be fucking insulted

It's just the racism of low expectations

It's rude. It's annoying.

Do you prefer native American or Indian?

If you want to see something funny I highly recommend just going up to some upper middle class white Karen who is going on about how much black people or whoever need help. Look her in the eye and tell her "Black people don't need you. I don't need you. You are doing more harm than good"

It gets them everytime

i prefer redskin but that one's technically a slur.

wait, so saying you were native american was hypothetical?

no, i am one

ah, k

just that the way I understand it, the term native american is seeing a rejection among indians

Really?

well

Do Native Americans cycle through acceptable terms like black people @RedShocktrooper

i see it as an expression of my patriotism to my adoptive nation

native ***AMERICAN***

well having just one word for the whole is already extremely unhelpful and apocryphal

@nimble_newt it's more like a crapshoot because American Indians/First Peoples/etc are actually about as varied as Europeans or Africans.

^

I suppose that's true.

I don't really care about those things tbh.

I'll respond to just about everything other than *person of color*

I just cannot fucking deal with that.

hell, i might not even have that particular quirk in common with the rest of the chickasaw.

honestly

person of color seems like it should be the most degrading bullshit.

like it's just a re-ordered "colored person"

Oh my god

Don't get me started on that.

I know right?

I moved to New England a while ago and I'm so confused why people think it's okay to call me that

I just look at them and I'm "Did you just call me colored"

It's wild

And weird

yeah, I don't like referring to people the same way I'd refer to my laundry

its fucking bizarre and pod-people-ish