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    hestermofet said:
    So what is wrong with calling non-Inuit individuals Yupik and Aleut? How is Eskimo an acceptable status quo? That's like saying "I'm going to keep saying the N-word because African-American isn't widely accepted yet". Which it wasn't always: Colored was at one time an accepted alternative by some people. So if you don't know whether to say "African-American" or "Colored", should you just default to the N-word?
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    African American is not a synonym for the N word, though. And it leads to such absurdities as calling Naomi Campbell (who is British) "African American". I've even seen it applied to Desmond Tutu.
     
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