If you're not Native, it's not your place to tell a Native person how to frame their conversation about Native things, regardless of whether or not you genuinely want to help them.

As for me, I want to live in a world in which PoC can talk about their experiences without some white* person derailing them whenever they…

...Whom do you believe that this line of inquiry will benefit? Why are you doing what you are doing?

*caters to you
rather than caters to your feelings.

I didn't misunderstand you at all. "N*gger" is considered offensive because of the way it has been used by white people to dehumanize black people—slaves and second-class citizens, if they were allowed citizenship in the first place—for centuries. "Indian" (when used in reference to indigenous Americans) is generally…

It matters when many Native communities are struggling with poverty and unemployment and non-Native companies are making huge profits from selling (supposedly) Native things. See: Urban Outfitters.

If you want a more selfish reason...you're more likely to get the real deal if you buy from an Native artisan.

It can be hard to find quality stuff that isn't crazy-expensive, but here are two sites I use:

-Beyond Buckskin's Street Style section has some lower-end stuff mixed with the high-.

-fyeahindigenousfashion is pretty much was Tumblr was made for. Again, expensive mixed in with cheap. Also features pieces by other…

Let me get this straight:

Europeans and Euro-Americans committed genocide against Native/First Nations peoples, dismantled their political structures, stole their land, outlawed their religions, and killed several of their languages...

...and you are sitting here bitching that one of them called you 'pale face.'

This is self-defense. The other kid assaulted her and wouldn't back off. Telling the teacher doesn't always help—in my experience, it usually doesn't help. Some people either can't or won't understand personal boundaries without the imminent threat of consequences for violating them.

I remember reading it in a very popular YA novel in ~2006. I also grew up in a very Jewish area and had never heard it before; I've talked with some friends about this and it seems to be more prevalent in more goyische areas.

In other words, I think it's one of those things that people say about a group when they think…

Dude, there has been some seriously fucked-up shit going on in Canada with how First Nations peoples are treated. You're really in no position to be throwing stones.

And the Roma! Please don't forget the Roma.

New Yorker, older than Rachel but probably younger than you. We learned cursive in elementary school and had to use it then and in middle school, but my high school teachers didn't care what you used as long as it was legible. Most went back to print or hybridized them.

As someone who was in the super-competitive-grades-college game not too long ago—she's really not that accomplished. She had a 3.59 GPA and a what, 1120 SAT score—I know people who had 4.0s and 1300s and memberships in multiple honor societies who were rejected from top schools (though not from UT Austin, because I've…

You take off your bra while driving?

But the conversation wasn't "white=racist." Both I and other commenters have pointed it out. The OP did not say that every single white person is racist, and clarified that very quickly. The OP did say that white people, as a group, are racist. Enough white people are racist that it doesn't matter if not every single…

Okay, now I get what you mean.

As for why people do get late-term abortions, from my understanding it's usually because

A) The pregnancy is found to be medically futile. ~20 weeks is when many major fetal abnormalities can first be detected. A pregnancy in this category will not produce a live, relatively healthy…

I know that you mean well, but I would want an abortion if I got pregnant. I would leave the clinic feeling much, much better.

I don't think we should have to use these justifications. We have to fight for our right to bodily autonomy—not for the right to get abortion because X, but because we're human beings with the…

How do you restrict abortions but don't impede the right to abortions? How does that work?

Why did you put "dominant" in quotation marks?

I most certainly should have a voice. But it is not my place to go tell a marginalized community to which I do not belong how to go about solving their problems. They know how to do that much better than I do.

They live this stuff. I can read, watch, and listen—but I will never have to firsthand experience the…