• NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz
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    14 days ago

    You’re right, as a group of people they prefer the term American Indian, but I’m not going to go and say “your should ask the Indians about that” because that sounds as stupid as whatever your argument is.

    Which was I think about using “native” instead of “indiginous”, which are literally synonyms in the context.

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      14 days ago

      which are literally synonyms in the context.

      From my first reply:

      Indigenous is more correct because that involves the land changing someone, not just something coming from there.

      You might not be aware of every pedantic difference, I didn’t assume anyone would, that’s why I explicitly stated it

      Feel free to Google and check my work, but this isn’t an argument someone can win, words have meaning.