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I hear what you're saying, completely. However, in turn I would politely ask you to consider that a very large number (and by a very large number, I wouldn't feel that it was a stretch to say it might perhaps be a majority) of those screaming the loudest with these issues are often the same ethnic background as those they are pointing the finger at, claiming insensitivity.The problems with the oversimplification of history in your post aside, do you think it would be appropriate for white allies of the BLM movement to wear blackface as a sign of respect and solidarity?
Co-opting the identity, culture, or likeness of America's indigenous people, whose ancestors were victims of genocide and generations of marginalizing U.S. policy, might seem like an honor to some people, but is it really, when it's done by exploitative enterprises that weren't established by those indigenous people, nor originated in a way as to serve the interests of those people?
The name or phrase may well be insensitive, in and of itself. But, why don't we leave it up to the offended group to speak for themselves? Moreover, rather than taking the word of those who, at first may have been acting in good faith, but lately have used Twitter to weaponize division and sow more Discord - - in a country that has already suffered and lost too much from artificially-inflated media division the last 5-7 years, or so.