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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Libramarian" data-source="post: 7234327" data-attributes="member: 6688858">OP is a crystal clear example of virtue signalling: the concern explicitly is whether the portrayal of the Uthgardt conflicts with "modern sensibilities", not whether it's offensive or derogatory to Native Americans. The latter is actually a much easier but I guess less interesting question to answer.That's quite a stretch and there are only about a million things you could do instead right now that would more directly help people. That's kind of like thinking you're fighting crime in your neighborhood by dressing well. Just as we can recognize that it's nice to dress well without being self-righteous about it, we can recognize that it's nice to use very refined language for other cultures and ethnicities without thinking this will change the world for the better. Most people most of the time recognize the difference between being nice and doing good, but for some reason many people playing this particular language game are off the reservation (so to speak) and don't see the difference anymore.By the way, "American Indians" is definitely a faux-pas. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> The correct term is "Native Americans", or if you'd really like to be on point (at least here in Canada), "First Nations".</blockquote>

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