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There Are a Shocking Number of Cars Named After Tribes
Motor Biscuit ^ | June 4, 2023 2:05 pm | by HENRY CESARI

Posted on 02/17/2024 6:34:10 PM PST by Red Badger

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1 posted on 02/17/2024 6:34:10 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

There is no such thing as negatively “appropriating a culture”.

Totally made up. The left doesn’t want non whites to be part of our culture, so they can keep them alienated.


2 posted on 02/17/2024 6:37:10 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Red Badger
Are automakers using tribal names honoring those people or appropriated their culture?

To appropriate means to take something that belongs to someone else for your own use thereby depriving them of it.

You can not appropriate a culture as they do not have owners, only followers.

So the answer is no.

Now buzz off you annoying little crustacean.

3 posted on 02/17/2024 6:41:11 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: Red Badger

Don’t forget about the Super Bowl Champs...KC Chiefs...but they are ok I guess because they have taylor swift.


4 posted on 02/17/2024 6:41:18 PM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: Red Badger

So what??????

Geez, people just feel the need to be perpetually offended these days, don’t they?


5 posted on 02/17/2024 6:42:57 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Red Badger
Rename everything that's currently named with Indian names or words. Erase them from maps and from history.

To paraphrase the pharaoh from The Ten Commandments "Let the names of American Indians be stricken from every book and tablet, stricken from all pylons and obelisks, stricken from every monument of America. Let the names of American Indians be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of men for all time."

Most of the names are there for history or respect. If you don't want that then you will get nothing.

6 posted on 02/17/2024 6:43:10 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: Williams
As i just posted on a thread not even a minute ago:

Let's just start calling people like this crazy.

If the "Normal Majority" of fed-up Americans just started actively ridiculing these Leftist bozos, rather than kowtowing to them for fear of being called "racist" or "sexist" or any of the other "ists", we might just save the country.

It's well past time to be what these entitled snowflakes hate so much. It's time to be mean.

7 posted on 02/17/2024 6:44:01 PM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: Red Badger

Toureg - named after a tribe where men wear the veils.


8 posted on 02/17/2024 6:44:24 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Red Badger

“Introducing the all-new, 2024 Ford Dindu Nuffin. It’s a steal!”


9 posted on 02/17/2024 6:48:24 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Free Republic's most controversial and outspoken FReeper)
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To: KarlInOhio

Off the topic, but Chevrolet made a “Confederate” model...

I suspect it’d be very popular today.

Well, maybe not...


10 posted on 02/17/2024 6:49:37 PM PST by Does so ( 🇺🇦...Motels for Migrants give legitimate addresses for mail-in ballots.)
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To: metmom

Yes, unfortunately.


11 posted on 02/17/2024 6:50:04 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Red Badger

“Where’s the Fire, Chief?”

- Mad Mag in the 60s...


12 posted on 02/17/2024 6:50:11 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: JennysCool

If people had stood up to them black kids would still be seeing the modern versions of Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben.

But then a lot more would be alive as well if we hadn’t allowed the kooks to hold back police protection.


13 posted on 02/17/2024 6:50:17 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Red Badger

Some tribes probably don’t deserved to be honored. The worst of the worst were pretty horrific.


14 posted on 02/17/2024 6:53:06 PM PST by FreedomForce
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To: KarlInOhio

This is exactly what’s happening. Pretty soon Native Americans won’t be known or remembered at all.

The names aren’t making fun of Indians - they are Honoring them! And if they don’t want that and manage to banish it, then we won’t remember or mention them at all.

(But the fact is that surveys taken of Native Americans have shown that the great majority of them have taken no offense to the Indian names of sports teams, etc. Again, we have a noisy activist minority trying to speak for the entire Native population.)


15 posted on 02/17/2024 6:53:11 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: FreedomForce

We have Apaches helicopters and Tomahawk missiles..............


16 posted on 02/17/2024 6:54:25 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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"...The big one here is Pontiac, which happens to be a town in Michigan–but in truth, the automaker was named after the tribe...."

BULLCRAP! Pontiac was the name of the chief of the Odawa tribe, not the name of the tribe.

If he can't get the basic facts straight, what else is wrong with this article?

17 posted on 02/17/2024 6:55:32 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: Paal Gulli

The author’s bio says he has a degree in anthropology. I’m guessing not an honors student.


18 posted on 02/17/2024 7:00:23 PM PST by FreedomForce
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We have Apaches helicopters and Tomahawk missiles..............

Hmmm. Seems racist. 😆😆😆😆😆

19 posted on 02/17/2024 7:02:19 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: Red Badger

I’d guess most native Americans are happy to have associations with sports teams, automobiles, etc. Those names are designed to promote strength, toughness and endurance.

The objectors are a small group of agitators trying to gain attention sympathy (and a payoff,) and are sought out by the media to promote the narrative.


20 posted on 02/17/2024 7:08:39 PM PST by Fido969
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