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Originally Posted by Adder
Just so you know, the cool, PC kids are not using this phrase anymore. I think the objection is minimizing the genocide done to native people or something.
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Is there a time when a phrase becomes okay, despite nasty origins? Like I was reading a Facebook fight about a bakery that has a "crack cake." The wounds are still too new, and the destruction too great.
I am not troubled by the usage (crack whatever) but also was not impacted at all by the problem.
We had a similar local reaction when a Mailbox type company opened and called itself "Going Postal." I can walk to the Royal Oak Post Office, it is a very specific, very localized harm, but real.
Anyhoo, it's weird how we turn bad into pretty phrases (though the reservation one was likely grounded in prejudice at the start).
