Thursday, November 29, 2012

That's pretty racist considering it's 2012

Time to re-brand.

Posted by Sleestak at 11/29/2012 06:00:00 AM

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9 comments:

  1. LukeThursday, November 29, 2012 10:00:00 AM

    THat's surprising - I thought everyone changed to "prairie bread" many years ago.

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  2. Drifty LeftwrightThursday, November 29, 2012 12:13:00 PM

    I've been following your blog for a couple of years at least- Thanks for the good times! I'd point out that expunging terms like Squaw Bread from our language is actually a more hateful and damaging act than retaining them. Let's not err on the side of linguistic cleansing, eh? Nothing is less sexy than groupthink. Keep up the good work!

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  3. SleestakThursday, November 29, 2012 6:22:00 PM

    How about we just expunge archaic, hateful, bigoted and derogatory terms that belittle people and dehumanize them?

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  4. GumbootSaturday, December 01, 2012 3:24:00 AM

    Personally, I'd say that expunging any particular word or derivation is largely pointless if that's all that happens. Not that we need masses of derogatory terms in the lingo, but... we have them, making them magically disappear from public text changes very little.

    In the UK we have fairly stringent anti hate speech laws which are patchily and randomly applied, and as far as I can tell all the racists think "Oh that's just a stupid PC law, everybody still thinks the same as I do!"

    In my view we'd be better off leaving the linguistics to sort themselves out and tackling people's bad attitudes and weird viewpoints.

    ^_^

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  5. SleestakSaturday, December 01, 2012 3:40:00 AM

    Derogatory words and linguistics reinforces bad attitudes and viewpoints. Change the message change the mind.

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    1. DriftyThursday, December 06, 2012 9:49:00 PM

      I like Luke's comment- prairie bread is just as descriptive a name for the bread as the other. And quite possibly just as traditional, though I haven't checked.

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  6. torresongsWednesday, December 12, 2012 12:41:00 PM

    Baby steps folks. Admittedly, I'm part Native American and didn't realize that this was a derogatory term. Perhaps some education on the part of the manufacturer is in order?

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  7. dmarksWednesday, February 20, 2013 6:38:00 PM

    Squaw bread no more:

    http://newspaperrock.bluecorncomics.com/2013/02/bakery-to-rename-squaw-bread.html

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  8. SleestakWednesday, February 20, 2013 8:00:00 PM

    I have done my part

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