Updating Our Language - Day 20
“Eskimo”
The word Eskimo is an incredibly offensive term used by non-Native colonizers to describe Indigenous people in Canada, Greenland, Alaska, the Arctic, etc.
Throughout July we will be making posts about updating our language.
We live in a society that has normalized using many words and phrases with racist origins.
Part of the anti-racist work involves acknowledging you have used them, beginning the process of eliminating them from your vocabulary, and gently correcting others when you hear them used.
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