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Rascar Capac posted:Lots of people thought/think that it's a term that just means "woman" or "wife". Probably this includes Simpsons writers from 20-odd years ago. Odd coincidence though for it to show up only in an episode about an (east) Indian wife.
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Lobok posted:Odd coincidence though for it to show up only in an episode about an (east) Indian wife.  Homer is too dumb to know the difference
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stealie72 posted:
I know, that's what I'm saying. The writers aren't just innocently using any old word for wife, it was specific.
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Lobok posted:I know, that's what I'm saying. The writers aren't just innocently using any old word for wife, it was specific.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Yeah I bet this guy's gonna get real upset about racial slurs Venom Groening
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Whybird posted:Yea, until now I'd been assuming it was only a loaded term in the sense of white people using a loanword from the language of a people they did a genocide on, not an out-and-out slur. Consider me educated. It literally means 'woman' in Massachusett. https://www.etymonline.com/word/squaw#etymonline_v_21935 quote:"Native American woman," 1630s, from Massachuset (Algonquian) squa "woman" (cognate with Narraganset squaws "woman"). "Over the years it has come to have a derogatory sense and is now considered offensive by many Native Americans" [Bright]. Widespread in U.S. place names, sometimes as a translation of a local native word for "woman." In old New England writers, sometimes paired with sannup (1620s) "married male member of a Native community." It's an offensive slur, but it doesn't mean 'vagina' or anything like that. It's just what you thought it was: white people using a loanword from a people they committed genocide against. It's offensive because of who's using it and the manner in which they're using it, not because the word itself is innately offensive.
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The better Homer-not-knowing-the-difference dialogue was Homer: Are you sure you don't want to come? In a Civil War reenactment we need lots of Indians to shoot. Apu: I don't know which part of that sentence to correct first.
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stealie72 posted:Ah, yeah, for sure. Going to go with "It was not widely considered racist (by white people) 20 years ago." Having 20 years ago lived in one of the parts of North America with the highest per capita indigenous populations, that word then would have certainly gotten you an rear end kicking.
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Haschel Cedricson posted:The better Homer-not-knowing-the-difference dialogue was Given my understanding of American history I suspect Homer is less inaccurate than implied.
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I think we just have to accept there were a lot of episodes where the writers were too hosed up off of rotisserie chicken to be not racist
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FWIW, the writers claim to have not known that the term "queer" was also offensive when they wrote the Homer thinks Bart may be gay episode. Even though Homer literally says "That's our word for making fun of you."
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While the pools are the obvious stars of that post, I too would like to express my fondness for the Canadiana in that post
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Probably in large part thanks to this thread I've been rewatching the show lately and goddamn are the early episodes just packed with material. I think I figured I'd recognize one or two memes from this thread per episode but it's just hit after hit after hit, literally minutes apart (if that.)
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The other day I watched an old episode of Diners Drive-ins & Dives and the chef was called Ray Ray. They interviewed a customer who explained it is his nickname: "You can call him Ray or you can call him Ray Ray or you can call him James" and it's not like there's actually any point to this story but I thought of you, meme thread, while I was tying the onion to my belt.
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It's it a clearly poor taste joke? Like squaw being a native American (indian) and Apu being Indian Like I get the joke, but that doesn't mean it's good taste
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Jestery posted:It's it a clearly poor taste joke? Who are you arguing with
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mind the walrus posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVmw3ZhdzEs This was amazing. At first I was shocked it was just shy of 300 likes, but then I saw it was only posted a day ago. Impeccable work.
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I'm seein' triple here... Nine Krusty burgers!
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mind the walrus posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVmw3ZhdzEs Masterful.
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History Comes Inside! posted:Who are you arguing with Sorry got sniped, I thought on the last page that it had gone over someone head. Simpsons has a few bad jokes in their run 
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Jestery posted:Simpsons has a few bad jokes in their run https://twitter.com/sohamberlamps/status/983200703660351488
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