Abatnia

6/3/19

Those terms are used *in group*, just like Eskimo may be used but Inuit, Yupik, Cupik, Supiat people among each other.

6/3/19

Ugh, hippies are the worst. They also love to appropriate Native cultures, and they never listen to Native folks who try to correct.

6/2/19

Well, now it’s just clear that *you* have a personal vendetta for some reason against TallBear, Fine, whatever, here are two completely different Native geneticists supporting this critique of Warren: https://theconversation.com/two-native-american-geneticists-interpret-elizabeth-warrens-dna-test-105274

6/2/19

It’s kind of ridiculous to me that a Native woman who has a career, and should make money off that career with her expertise, is an opportunist with bad intentions worthy of your ire, but a Pretendian white woman running for office should be above critique.

6/2/19

They are not goosing me for shit - I’ve been critiquing Warren since before the right wing Trump machine got a hold of it, so have many Native folks.

6/2/19

Totally! It’s a misunderstanding/ bastardization of how our languages build sentences and communicate nuance!

6/2/19

As I mentioned in my northern response - in group terms for all of us, white folks should be using Alaskan Native to refer to us collectively.

6/2/19

Many use it as an in group term among Inupiaq, Yupik, Supiaq, but I don’t know anyone who prefers Eskimo over our actual tribe and village. But it’s not a terms non-Inupiaq or Yupik folks should use

6/1/19

Warren also cares about... getting elected.

6/1/19

Friend, I’ve hit strangers. Talk shit, get hit. Still doing great.

6/1/19

Oh no, won’t some please think of the racists 🙄

6/1/19

Lol, ok fam. It’s not that I hate white people, but I do have white supremacy and colonialism, the systems white folks created!

6/1/19

You’re a bigger piece of shit for trying to equate the white experience to the BIPOC experience, and for trying to claim white people is a slur. You’re no true ally to BIPOC, and it’s fine, we don’t need allies like you!

6/1/19

Whatever helps you sleep, to make the scary brown people the hypocrites in order to protect your feelings about white folks.

6/1/19

It’s not hypocrisy, no matter how much you clamor it is, because the experience of white folks in North America will never compare to the experience of BIPOC, especially considering they built the system, and get to decide who benefits from it.

6/1/19

Or maybe you the one that clearly doesn’t know what they’re talking about?

6/1/19

🙄 whatever makes you feel better. I really don’t understand the world you live in, where BIPOC are the hypocrites for using the term ”white people” when asking white folks to use the names we give ourselves rather than the colonial and imperial names forced upon us by white folks themselves, when white folks created…

6/1/19

I mean, being a part of the group myself, with a white dad and white relatives, I think I know if white is pejorative or not.

6/1/19

Lol, jokes on you! My dad’s white, so you can take your bullshit “whattaboutism” as if white people and Inuit have had similar experiences with slurs and colonialism and shove it up your ass!

6/1/19

This comes across as so disingenuous - white has never been a slur, it still isn’t a slur, and white folks trying these arguments are typically trying to minimize the harm of actual slurs against BIPOC