Abjure the Word

[jp1]

Maybe we should start calling America (north, south, the United States of. All of it) whatever folks called it before it got named after some rando Italian dude.

[bae]

Interesting article on it all:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/19/opini...lon/index.html

[ToomuchStuff]

I see USC will no longer use the term “field”, on the assumption it may offend people descended from slaves or migrant workers. They will now play football on a “practicing”. That way, when the Trojans take the practicum there will be no unfortunate word connotation.

Sure about that? Slaves in ancient Greece and Troy?
Trojans for gullible people that take weird gifts out of the blue.

[LDAHL]

Sure about that? Slaves in ancient Greece and Troy?
Trojans for gullible people that take weird gifts out of the blue.

As my friend Virgil says, “Timeo Danaos et Dona ferentis”. As my friend Norbert says, “There’s never a Trojan around when you need one”.

[catherine]

Maybe we should start calling America (north, south, the United States of. All of it) whatever folks called it before it got named after some rando Italian dude.

I''m reading an interesting book called "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" by Graeber and Wengrow, and it really is a fun and enlightening read. So far, one key takeaway is that I always get caught up when they are talking about colonial America, and they always refer to the Natives as "Americans" vs the "Europeans" I kept having to twist that in my head: "No, they don't mean the colonialists, they mean the natives."

The second takeaway is that when people, no matter where they were from--whether they were "Noble Savages" or "Enlightened Europeans," when faced with a decision to live closer to either form of life after having experienced both, they all chose the life closer to that of the "noble savage" (the term is completely dissected in the book, which is the reason for the quotes.). I'm only early on in the book, but in general it helps me pry open my Western culture biases long enough to be able to chew on them for a while.