Native Americans Say "Occupy" Terminology Is Offensive

[MADem]

118. Oooooooops! Now isn't THAT a bit AWKWARD!

I guess the righteously indignant are going to have to re-calibrate.

Or is "Occupy" the new N word--it's "OK" only if some people use it?

This whole brouhaha is nonsensical to me. On the one hand, one single, solitary person, purporting to speak for all Native Americans, gets their nose out of joint over a commonly-used word with multiple definitions, and way too many people eschew any rational analysis of the complaint and jump to accomodate this snit by an INDIVIDUAL, who is clearly NOT speaking for the greater group from Sea to Shining Sea. Anyone who dares take exception to the overreaching assertions by the one complaining individual is shouted down, accused of being a Freeper/Right Winger/Name Your Favorite Evil Character, and treated with undeserved contempt and scorn.

On the other hand, other Native Americans have used the word actively and successfully in a number of circumstances to do the very thing that the OWS group has been doing since last September...and why, I must ask, didn't this "offended" Native not gripe about this MONTHS ago? Why now? Is there a "News Cycle" issue at play, here? Or something else?

Of course, when you can get a couple of groups of people fighting like ninnies over absolutely nothing, they aren't demonstrating in front of that bank, now, are they?

So you really have to ask the question: CUI BONO, here? It ain't the OWS movement. It ain't the Native Americans. The ones laughing all the way to the bank are the people who have done a good job keeping people down all these years.

To the victor goes the spoils!