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Court backs Florida law mandating Hillsborough teacher’s pronouns (www.tampabay.com)

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[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 11 points 23 hours ago

This is very clearly a first amendment violation. The state can't dictate how you refer to yourself or how others choose to refer to you. This is another one of those cases that shows the judiciary is infested with people who do not even care to pretend to be practicing law anymore.

[+] nanook@friendica.eskimo.com -9 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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[–] spunow@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Your username is a racial slur and your host instance’s name contains a racial pejorative. What other varieties of bigotry do you partake in?

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

If you look at their comment history you'll see they also seem to think vaccines are a Jewish conspiracy. So the answer to your question may be "all of them."

[–] madlian@lemmy.cafe 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Nanook is not inherently a racial slur. It means polar bear or “the master spirit of bear.”

Their instance is on Eskimo.com, which could be considered insensitive.

Just don’t watch “Nanook of the North” (1922), although it was some pretty interesting filmmaking for the time, it’s very racist.

If you feel strongly, the website has a phone number 😅

[–] spunow@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

“Nanook” is a slur for northern indigenous people in the same way “Chan” is a slur for Chinese people. Sure, there might be some members of that demographic with that name, but using the term as a generalization for that demographic is derogatory in intent.

Using the term “Eskimo” in the instance name is problematic for at least two reasons.

The term itself is considered problematic and derogatory for reasons I don't have time to go into here, but feel free to research why it’s under fire.
I haven’t checked, but the admins are probably not part of the demographics that the term would refer to, so they’re not “reclaiming a slur” so to speak

[–] madlian@lemmy.cafe 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The comparison between “Nanook” and “Chan” is misleading and not linguistically equivalent. “Nanook” originates from Inuit mythology and is not inherently a slur, while “Chan” has been used in explicitly mocking or derogatory ways. It’s important to recognize the context and history behind each term rather than assume they carry the same weight.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

You're right, but also taking together their comment history, we can reasonably assume that they chose their username with the intent to slur rather than as a more benign meaning.

[–] madlian@lemmy.cafe 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I actually think they are the owner of Eskimo.com, as that person uses seems to use that username. And so, I don’t think you’re right about the username being specific to hate… I don’t dare look at their comment history, and will take your word for that.

https://friendica.eskimo.com/friendica

edit: also, haha

https://www.eskimo.com/~nanook/