Thursday, June 19, 2014

REDSKINS … RED skins … BLACK skins …

REDSKINS IS A DISPARAGING TERM – SO whiteskins, blackskins, brownskins, yellowskins are also disparaging terms.

Gee, now we have a range of things which can be insulting – add a color in front of the word ‘skin’ and you create a disparaging term.

What if we drop the word ‘skin’ – or treat it as implied?  Is the race question on various census or other forms therefore a mandate to be self-disparaging?

It would appear that the Patent office might think so.

 

 

 

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