redskin

The point is there wasn't one cited source that showed redskin specifically was a slur, only general evidence that white settlers were racist against Native Americans.

The tribes among whom the proto forms of redskin first appeared lived in the area of the upper Mississippi River called Illinois country.

For fiber, I eat a variety of nuts like redskin peanuts, walnuts, and brazil nuts.

Their extensive contact with French-speaking colonists, before the French pulled out of North America, led to these phrases being translated, in the 1760s, more or less literally as peau-rouge and only then into English as redskin.

It doesn't seem to say this - there's quite a nuanced discussion about whether or not it was a slur during that time period[1]: > The term redskin underwent pejoration through the 19th to early 20th centuries and in contemporary dictionaries of American English it is labeled as offensive, disparaging, or insulting..

There's little doubt that "redskin" is a slur today - Native Americans say so, and it's kind of up to them.

Plus the term "redskin" was used historically as a pejorative and associated with contempt, derision, condescension, or sentimental paeans to the noble savage.

It's no longer cool to call people "yellow" or "redskin", so why are those still accepted?

'"Redskin" is a term for Native Americans.

Fwiw, the current article still says: > A controversial etymological claim is that the term emerged from the practice of paying a bounty for Indians, and that "redskin" refers to the bloody scalp of Native Americans.[55] Although official documents do not use the word in this way, a historical association between the use of "redskin" and the paying of bounties can be made.

Last time I asked brave fanboys why they don't redskin Firefox and the response was "Firefox is pita to build" all the while we have projects like palemoon and waterfox that are hobby projects.

And I take a bit of an offense at you telling me or my Dad what you think Redskin means versus what he grew up with and myself growing up on a reservation with the slang "skins" being used often and not in anyway like your dictionary definition probably written by someone who had never set foot on a reservation.

There's little doubt that "redskin" is a slur today - Native Americans say so, and it's kind of up to them.

Plus the term "redskin" was used historically as a pejorative and associated with contempt, derision, condescension, or sentimental paeans to the noble savage.

It's no longer cool to call people "yellow" or "redskin", so why are those still accepted?

'"Redskin" is a term for Native Americans.