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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Your article is logically flawed, however. It argued that because the origin of the term "redskin" may have been benign, it should remain okay to use the term today. That is a cute argument that it tries to cherry-pick one aspect of 18th and 19th century thinking and uses it to claim that we should not view the use of the term in the lens of modern perception. Something tells me the Slate writer won't be making similar arguments about other 19th century thinking such as the righteousness of slavery or of disenfranchisement of large percentages of the population.
Something also tells me that the Slate writer won't be penning an article about how unfairly maligned the Swastika is either.
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But Black people owned slaves! And they enslaved their own people! Also, Who are we to judge Nazi Germany, there's cultural relativism we need to account for!