12-08-2018, 07:53 PM
By the way, the phrase "son of a gun" is also supposed to be derogatory, yet no one notices because it's not aimed against the right skin colors.
The story goes that many, many moons ago, an Indian (feather, not dot Indian) was heard to remark at a trading post - I believe it was in the Ohio territory - that "the gun is my mother. She feeds me, she clothes me, and she protects me. She is my mother". So the frontiersmen of the time picked up on that and started calling Indians "sons of guns" collectively, or "that son of a gun" individually, in a derogatory manner at the Indian's comment. It caught on all across the frontier.
Flash forward a couple of hundred years, and the meaning has changed a bit, and the phrase has picked up a broader application. I don't know any Indians who take offense at it any more, but if they really wanted to get "the red ass" or go on "the warpath" about it, they could, and have historical backup for their indignation... yet they don't.
Indians have good sense. They move forward when a thing is not productive, unlike a few other groups that I could mention...
... and they just aren't the right minority group for the Left to ass themselves to give it a go.
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The story goes that many, many moons ago, an Indian (feather, not dot Indian) was heard to remark at a trading post - I believe it was in the Ohio territory - that "the gun is my mother. She feeds me, she clothes me, and she protects me. She is my mother". So the frontiersmen of the time picked up on that and started calling Indians "sons of guns" collectively, or "that son of a gun" individually, in a derogatory manner at the Indian's comment. It caught on all across the frontier.
Flash forward a couple of hundred years, and the meaning has changed a bit, and the phrase has picked up a broader application. I don't know any Indians who take offense at it any more, but if they really wanted to get "the red ass" or go on "the warpath" about it, they could, and have historical backup for their indignation... yet they don't.
Indians have good sense. They move forward when a thing is not productive, unlike a few other groups that I could mention...
... and they just aren't the right minority group for the Left to ass themselves to give it a go.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’