Now, focus has turned to ski resort Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows in North Lake Tahoe.
The term squaw is considered an ethnic and racist slur. The American Indian Movement notes that in the Algonquin languages the word means vagina, and is a synonym for "prostitute, harlot, hussy, and floozy." ...
President and Chief Operating Officer of the Squaw Valley Alpine Meadow resort Ron Cohen ... said that the name for the valley originated "sometime in the 1850s or so, as settlers came through here, the anecdotal stories are that they saw all of the (Native American) men were gone out hunting in the summer time and the (Native American) women and children were here in this beautiful valley." ...
I don't comprehend how a person can be upset by a word. If you're that sensitive to words, please die. We need to breed you out of the system so we don't have future dumb fucks and collapse our society.
I don't comprehend how a person can be upset by a word. If you're that sensitive to words, please die. We need to breed you out of the system so we don't have future dumb fucks and collapse our society. That is the point, not sensitivity to words, but, to cause social collapse and then the left (thinks it can) take power.
The term squaw is considered an ethnic and racist slur. The American Indian Movement notes that in the Algonquin languages the word means vagina, and is a synonym for "prostitute, harlot, hussy, and floozy."
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President and Chief Operating Officer of the Squaw Valley Alpine Meadow resort Ron Cohen ... said that the name for the valley originated "sometime in the 1850s or so, as settlers came through here, the anecdotal stories are that they saw all of the (Native American) men were gone out hunting in the summer time and the (Native American) women and children were here in this beautiful valley."
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https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Tahoe-ski-resort-considers-changing-its-racist-15366498.php