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Old 02-04-2018, 09:31 AM   #20
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Originally Posted by msupoke View Post
"Indian" and "Indian giver" are two separate things. That is like saying "African-American" is offensive because of the racist phrase "African-American engineering."

For the Roosevelt quote, substitute "Caucasian" for "Indian" and tell me if that makes "Caucasian" an offensive term. Using a word in a racist sentence does not make the word itself offensive.
Seriously? You can't see the obvious difference even in your own words above?
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