It was funny until I saw him run for the house! Damn!

I assume he was running because he saw the police coming. That SUV in the video was a municipal vehicle, and would have called the local detachment.>> ^notarobot:

It was funny until I saw him run for the house! Damn!

No matter where in Canada you are, there's always some form of absurdity occurring. Wouldn't have it any other way.

"eskimo" is a racial slur, btw.

^True, Inuit is used in it's place now.

wow, are you kidding me with this fucking bullshit? cant even say eskimo now? watch this.
eskimo ! nigger! wop ! beaner! midget ! yea, i said it! midget !! just words. idiot almost kills himself but heaven forbid we call him an eskimo.

oh p.s. i am no longer a white person. i find that extremely offensive. i am now pretty pink person. and anyone who doesnt refer to me as such will be called out for the racist hateful bastards they are !!!
join me ! pink ! pink ! pink! pink !

You're welcome to be offended by the word "eskimo" but I shall continue to use it despite this, thanks.

@robdot & @shuac

In Canada and Greenland[1][14][17][20] the term Eskimo is widely held to be pejorative[20][11] and has fallen out of favour, largely supplanted by the term Inuit. However, while Inuit describes all of the Eskimo peoples in Canada and Greenland, that is not true in Alaska and Siberia. In Alaska the term Eskimo is commonly used, because it includes both Yupik and Inupiat, while Inuit is not accepted as a collective term or even specifically used for Inupiat (who technically are Inuit). No universal replacement term for Eskimo, inclusive of all Inuit and Yupik people, is accepted across the geographical area inhabited by the Inuit and Yupik peoples.[1]

Since the 1970s in Canada and Greenland Eskimo has widely been considered offensive, as mentioned above. In 1977, the Inuit Circumpolar Conference meeting in Barrow, Alaska, officially adopted Inuit as a designation for all circumpolar native peoples, regardless of their local view on an appropriate term. As a result the Canadian government usage has replaced the (locally) defunct term Eskimo with Inuit (Inuk in singular). The preferred term in Canada's Central Arctic is Inuinnaq,[21] and in the eastern Canadian Arctic Inuit. The language is often called Inuktitut, though other local designations are also used.

While I agree that certain terms (Indian, Midget, etc) are stupid to take offense to, but when they actually have a conference and agree upon something they prefer to be called, I can respect that, and respect their wishes.

They did not just say "No, you can't say that anymore, that's our word" or "I find this term offensive" they made a name for their race as a whole.

>> ^robdot:

wow, are you kidding me with this fucking bullshit? cant even say eskimo now? watch this.
eskimo ! nigger! wop ! beaner! midget ! yea, i said it! midget !! just words. idiot almost kills himself but heaven forbid we call him an eskimo.


Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

Are youse guys really lecturing Throbbin on the use of the term Eskimo. Why don't you ask him instead, he is after all an Inuk. And while Eskimo has become a passe term in Canada it is still commonly used in Alaska. And while the Unuit people may find offensive meaning in the term it has hardly been used as a racial insult. For the most part it has been used as a generic term to describe all Arctic peoples by people who had no idea of its real meaning.

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Well, at least the video is funny.

That eskimo is looking for some sqauw!

While I'm not crazy about the word 'Eskimo' (it's actually a Cree word that the French adopted), we do use it amongst ourselves.

As for others using it - a friend of mine once asked an Inuk Elder what he thought about the word. The Elder responded that we never asked white people what they wanted to be called (we call them Qallunaq), so why should we get upset about what people call us?

>> ^Throbbin:

While I'm not crazy about the word 'Eskimo' (it's actually a Cree word that the French adopted), we do use it amongst ourselves.
As for others using it - a friend of mine once asked an Inuk Elder what he thought about the word. The Elder responded that we never asked white people what they wanted to be called (we call them Qallunaq), so why should we get upset about what people call us?


Sir, that may be one of the most racially tolerant (and awesome) things i've ever heard. Kudos!

*Quality.

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by Shepppard.

>> ^nanrod:
Are youse guys really lecturing Throbbin on the use of the term Eskimo. Why don't you ask him instead, he is after all an Inuk. And while Eskimo has become a passe term in Canada it is still commonly used in Alaska. And while the Unuit people may find offensive meaning in the term it has hardly been used as a racial insult. For the most part it has been used as a generic term to describe all Arctic peoples by people who had no idea of its real meaning.


you can't really fault anyone on that since it's not exactly self evident info.

I come from the USA but have lived in Thailand for a few years now.

Here any westerner is called a "farang" in Thai, which would technically mean "Frenchman" as a direct translation but the de-facto definition is any westerner. A few westerners take offense to the term, for whatever reason, so some Thais (10-20%) are hesitant to use it for fear of causing offense. For me personally, I don't feel offended when being called a farang.

However, there is another term for westerners: "kee nok", which translates to "bird shit". We're whities, bird shit is white, and there you go. That one is intended to be derogatory (fairly obviously). I don't find the phrase itself offense, it is actually rather humorous -- but in general if a Thai calls a westerner "kee nok", they intend to cause offense.

So I guess that I'm saying that the intent is important to consider, and I figure a lot of people that would use the word "eskimo" don't know or intend it to be offensive.

>> ^kir_mokum:

"eskimo" is a racial slur, btw.

SWEET! I learned another way to offend people! You ESKIMO!

Man, Inuit sounds far more derogatory than Eskimo. Eskimo sounds nice and fluffy ; Inuit rolls off the tongue in a similar fashion to 'idiot'.

>> ^SuperHotbUNZ:

That eskimo is looking for some sqauw!


You win.

>> ^Throbbin:

While I'm not crazy about the word 'Eskimo' (it's actually a Cree word that the French adopted), we do use it amongst ourselves.
As for others using it - a friend of mine once asked an Inuk Elder what he thought about the word. The Elder responded that we never asked white people what they wanted to be called (we call them Qallunaq), so why should we get upset about what people call us?



Awesome post. This needs to be re-read again. A word is not derogatory unless it is meant to be so. There are words for other cultures everywhere on the planet. Someone should see what Russia and China have decided to call peoples living in the Siberian Tundra. Same situation?

Eskimo in Canada became a political hot button issue, but the word was not meant to be offensive. It is mildly like the usage of Indian in place of Native Americans. All Indians I know do not mind; if they do they tell you what they prefer (Apache, Ute, etc...).

Go compare the history with "Eskimo" and bigotry. Then look up any of the rest that are very well known biased, derogatory, racial slurs, and more...like: Ni;#er, Uncle Tom, Aunt Jemima, Apple (Indian (or N.A.) that acts white), and ethnic slurs across the world.

I wasn't faulting anyone for not knowing he's Inuk, my comment was more of a disagreement with your characterization of "eskimo" as a racial slur.>> ^kir_mokum:

>> ^nanrod:
Are youse guys really lecturing Throbbin on the use of the term Eskimo. Why don't you ask him instead, he is after all an Inuk. And while Eskimo has become a passe term in Canada it is still commonly used in Alaska. And while the Unuit people may find offensive meaning in the term it has hardly been used as a racial insult. For the most part it has been used as a generic term to describe all Arctic peoples by people who had no idea of its real meaning.

you can't really fault anyone on that since it's not exactly self evident info.

"Did you know that 'Eskimo' is offensive?"

"Yesh, Inuit."

>> ^Throbbin:

it's actually a Cree word that the French adopted

Very few linguists, apparently, agree with that etymology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo#Origin_of_the_name_Eskimo

What's 'Qallunaq' translate to?

How about we call you guys 'snow-chinks'?

Thats too bad that they don't agree. The Cree in northern Manitoba confirm that they call us Eskimo based on "eaters of raw-meat", but hey, what do they know?

Qallunaq (also pronounced kabloonak) comes from kabluk (eyebrows), and naak (stomach). The story goes that Scottish whalers who came over in the 1700's had big bushy eyebrows and big stomachs - and the name stuck.

You can call me a snow-chink if you want. I won't feed that troll.>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^Throbbin:
it's actually a Cree word that the French adopted
Very few linguists, apparently, agree with that etymology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo#Origin_of_the_name_Eskimo
What's 'Qallunaq' translate to?
How about we call you guys 'snow-chinks'?

"Inuit Pie" just doesn't have the same ring.

Let me simplify this whole PC thing: don't be a dick. It's ugly. Grow up already.



...mmm, Inupiat Pies...

Soon the white kids will be wearing fur, eating whale, and calling each other the E word.

>> ^Throbbin:

I assume he was running because he saw the police coming. That SUV in the video was a municipal vehicle, and would have called the local detachment.>> ^notarobot:
It was funny until I saw him run for the house! Damn!



If he was doing something criminal, the municipal officer probably would have pursued him with a little more effort. I assume he was just concerned that Mr. Faceplant was probably too drunk to drive and should walk (the ten feet) to his house. In a community that size, that SUV probably was the local detachment.

I was chuckling at the drunken shenanigans until I saw that he had left parts of his face by his snowmobile.

My only problem with the term Indian is it can mean one of two very cultural distinct groups of people from opposite sides of the world. So I find it less confusing to use Native American in reference to American Indians.

I'm not so hot on the whole 'I don't mean it in an offensive way, so it's not offensive' thing. Not everything is offensive, but that argument sounds like an excuse for ignorance to me.

I see what you mean. However, this community (Inukjuak) does have an official police presence. The cops were called. As they should have been.>> ^notarobot:

If he was doing something criminal, the municipal officer probably would have pursued him with a little more effort. I assume he was just concerned that Mr. Faceplant was probably too drunk to drive and should walk (the ten feet) to his house. In a community that size, that SUV probably was the local detachment.
I was chuckling at the drunken shenanigans until I saw that he had left parts of his face by his snowmobile.
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