[Sca-cooks] Now PC Terms Was knives

[Linda Peterson]

It is intended, I think, as a cultural distinction, not a racial one. As 
SCA and as foodies on this list much of what we are interested in is 
grounded in cultural distinctions. Specific terms denoting those 
distinctions are information carrying and valuble. While one's value for 
peoples should be equal, I for one would hate to see the world degenerate 
into homogeneity.  Mirhaxa

   mirhaxa at morktorn.com


On Thu, 30 Dec 2010, Saint Phlip wrote:

> How about forgetting the racial determinations, and just referring to
> them as "people"? Northern people, if you need to be specific. 90% of
> the time, you can completely avoid saying "some black guy" or "that
> gay person" or "that disabled person" and still make your point, just
> as it isn't required to specify "that blue-eyed person" or "that
> freckled person" for most of what you may be discussing. After all,
> bottom line, we're all people- even fur people, feather people, or
> scaled people. While politicos and various brands of stump jumpers
> keep coming up with all these different way to separate people (divide
> and conquer" it is our job, as responsible adults to try to bring
> ourselves together, and hope these stupid distinctions will vanish
> back into the aether, where they belong.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Daniel & Elizabeth Phelps
> <dephelps at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>> ?
>>
>> Was written:
>>
>>> Please, please, please refer to Northern Aboriginal Cultures as Athapaskan
>>> or Inuit. Eskimo is an extremely derogitive term- the same as n*gger down
>>> here.
>>>
>> Wikipedia Entry:
>>
>> In Alaska, the term Eskimo is commonly used, because it includes both Yupik
>> and Inupiat, while Inuit is not accepted as a collective term or even
>> specifically used for Inupiat. No universal replacement term for Eskimo,
>> inclusive of all Inuit and Yupik people, is accepted across the geographical
>> area inhabited by the Inuit and Yupik peoples.[1] In Canada and Greenland,
>> the term Eskimo has fallen out of favour, as it is considered pejorative by
>> the natives and has been replaced by the term Inuit.
>>
>> Personal note:
>>
>> Last I was in the Arctic was for a seismic cruise north out of Dutch Harbor
>> back in the early '80s.  Visited the legendary Elbow Room in Unalaska.  It
>> was reputed to be rated by Playboy as one of the 10 worst/dangerous bars in
>> the US. Don't go looking for it as it closed in 2007.
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> Saint Phlip
>
> So, you think your data is safe?
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>
> Heat it up
> Hit it hard
> Repent as necessary.
>
> Priorities:
>
> It's the smith who makes the tools, not the tools which make the smith.
>
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