Murkans

[Conager]

All you furriners need to get off my reservation!





Seriously, it was a table for Juan...

I don't know how it is out there but here the natives are far from restless; they're fat and happy, exacting tribute from the numerically challenged.

 

[Disgustipated]

I don't know how it is out there but here the natives are far from restless; they're fat and happy, exacting tribute from the numerically challenged.

AJ isn't Native American therefore he's poor. Amirite?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I don't know how it is out there but here the natives are far from restless; they're fat and happy, exacting tribute from the numerically challenged.

lol

Our Casino is a riverboat of concrete that technically floats, but cannot sail...

The White Man's answer to the reservation.

 

[Ishmael]

lol

Our Casino is a riverboat of concrete that technically floats, but cannot sail...

The White Man's answer to the reservation.

Wed. night I was looking at the New Mexico voting patterns. If you bother to check it out there is a great big red square in the far northwestern corner of the state. That's the Navajo reservation, the place where they wear Redskins sweatshirts during football season.

Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Wed. night I was looking at the New Mexico voting patterns. If you bother to check it out there is a great big red square in the far northwestern corner of the state. That's the Navajo reservation, the place where they wear Redskins sweatshirts during football season.

Ishmael

They're OFF DA RESERVATION!!!



Then again, like the AAs, maybe they are tired of competing with Mescans for jobs...

Or as VDH tells the story, maybe they are tired of being invaded, having their copper stripped, trash dumped on their lands and DUI deaths by Mescalifornication...

 

[EllieTalbot]

I didn't. I pointed out that it looks like the same kind of persecution complex.

Ah, so that's what you were after. No, it's not a persecution complex, hence the Python bit I posted when you were being direct.

What group of people are "Muricans"?

It's not a group the way black people are a group, it's a chosen attitude and behaviour.

Hold right there for a moment. That's exactly the rationale used by those who continue to use the word "nigger" pejoratively. "I'm not saying all black people are niggers. I'm not racist. When I say nigger I'm talking about the ones who act this way or that."

Just like hipsters, preppers and Social Justice Warriors. That's the qualititative difference here.

Those terms can be used perjoratively, but they're not meant to be demeaning the way "Murkans" is starting to.

If we can't ridicule silly behavior for being silly without being called haters, then political correctness has truly gone off the rails.

Agreed, which is why I don't say it lightly. And as a Murkan, by Gawd I'll use my Gawd-given second amendment right to bear arms to defend your first amendment right to call me a Murkan.

Yes, it started out as a bit of mirth. Good-natured ribbing. It's as if it was replacing "redneck" or "hick." But it's in the early stages of morphing into something else, something truly contemptuous and hateful. It's not directed at behaviors anymore, but at groups of people whether they display certain behaviors or not.

I suggest that those who use it examine what's behind their impulse to do so.

Unsullied in the US,
Ellie

 

[Hypoxia]

I do not use the term 'Murkans' to designate any subset of the USAnian population, but rather as a signifier of USA residency. 'USAnians' works just as well for me but that's one letter longer. As I said, 'Americans' refers to residents of the entire Americas, not merely the 50 states plus territories that constitute the USA. DAMN that Amerigo Vespucci! Look what he's caused us!

 

[BotanyBoy]

Which side of the line are you on?

I'm not a human GPS, but I've won my fair share of accolades and bragging rights in land nav competitions with little more than a map and compass.

 

[EllieTalbot]

I do not use the term 'Murkans' to designate any subset of the USAnian population, but rather as a signifier of USA residency. 'USAnians' works just as well for me but that's one letter longer. As I said, 'Americans' refers to residents of the entire Americas, not merely the 50 states plus territories that constitute the USA. DAMN that Amerigo Vespucci! Look what he's caused us!

Indeed.

Although I never hear Canadians or people in South American countries call themselves Americans. Only people from the US.

Could have something to do with the fact that it's the only nation with America in its name.

High in Humboldt,
Ellie

 

[Liar]

Hold right there for a moment. That's exactly the rationale used by those who continue to use the word "nigger" pejoratively. "I'm not saying all black people are niggers. I'm not racist. When I say nigger I'm talking about the ones who act this way or that."

Both terms are not separate from their origin. On one hand racist oppression, on the other a comedic archetype. Don't try to pretend otherwise.

 

[Hypoxia]

I never hear Canadians or people in South American countries call themselves Americans. Only people from the US.

License plates and highways between Guatemala and Panama are prefixed CA, Central America, and residents refer to themselves as Central Americans (among other things). So says my Central American cousin-in-law. YMMV.

 

[Saint Peter]

Indeed.

Although I never hear Canadians or people in South American countries call themselves Americans. Only people from the US.

Could have something to do with the fact that it's the only nation with America in its name.

High in Humboldt,
Ellie

Columbus called us Indians.

Its all good.

 

[patient1]

Your loss!!!

I came back to this thread to thank you for the laughs, Botany Boy. Great link. "Bed, Bath, and Beyond"


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As for American Samoa, did anyone consider that a possible reason for the high military participation is the path to full citizenship which it offers?

 

[patient1]

Indeed.

Although I never hear Canadians or people in South American countries call themselves Americans. Only people from the US.

Could have something to do with the fact that it's the only nation with America in its name.

High in Humboldt,
Ellie

Then you must have missed Lobido's rant. As a Central American by birth, he considered himself as American as anyone else here.