California ski resort changing name,
citing offensive word
Associated Press,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: JunkYardDog,
8/26/2020 1:08:29 PM
California’s popular Squaw Valley Ski Resort will change its name because the word “squaw” is a derogatory term for Native American women, officials announced Tuesday. The site was the scene of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
The decision was reached after consulting with local Native American groups and extensive research into the etymology and history of the term “squaw," said Ron Cohen, president and COO of Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows. The word “squaw,” derived from the Algonquin language, may have once simply meant “woman.” But over generations, the word morphed into a misogynist and racist term to disparage Indigenous women.
Fox business?
by Ass Press?
Huh?
You mean there’s no difference anymore?
We knew that!
As for that ski resort
Get woke Go broke
Commie-Fornia!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
zoidberg 8/26/2020 1:16:40 PM (No. 521472)
Change it to Beeyotch Valley.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
klezmer 8/26/2020 1:19:00 PM (No. 521473)
It must suck to live your life being constantly offended by everything
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Noj15 8/26/2020 1:30:53 PM (No. 521480)
Gee, I wonder why hundreds of thousands are fleeing this failed state of California.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 8/26/2020 1:32:53 PM (No. 521482)
Ok so what's it gonna be now? Ho Valley? This is beyond stupid. It might be "offensive" to some, but to most people I know it is of no consequence and totally insignificant. But this is Kookiforniaco. Totally expected.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 8/26/2020 1:33:51 PM (No. 521483)
There's a business TV show called Squawk Box. I guess they'll have to trash the name since someone will assume it refers to Indian maidens.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 8/26/2020 1:34:26 PM (No. 521484)
Oh please give me a break!! Did one snowflake claim to be offended!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
valinva 8/26/2020 1:44:08 PM (No. 521498)
Change the name to Woke Valley.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
aasilver 8/26/2020 1:58:16 PM (No. 521510)
So if someone calls me whitey I will be offended.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
snakeoil 8/26/2020 2:02:17 PM (No. 521511)
Elizabeth Warren Valley? I have my Master Card. Is the Slave Card on the way?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Luandir 8/26/2020 2:07:40 PM (No. 521515)
Snowflake Valley sounds innocuous enough...
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Aud 8/26/2020 2:07:45 PM (No. 521516)
Cohen & Co. probably began to panic when they heard about Land O’ Lakes removing the Indian maiden from the butter package, Mutual of Omaha removing the Indian man in headdress logo and the Washington Redskins losing the team name.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
lakerman1 8/26/2020 2:12:55 PM (No. 521520)
squawk Valley? Easy to modify current signage.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 8/26/2020 2:21:24 PM (No. 521529)
For chrissake, that’s what they called themselves.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
coyote 8/26/2020 2:28:27 PM (No. 521537)
The land of free speech is now the land of politically correct speech. (but only for a time)
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
StrikingViking 8/26/2020 2:35:42 PM (No. 521552)
The Left uses language as a weapon against conservatives. Orwell's "1984" is their bible. "Bastard" was replaced with "illegitimate child" was replaced with "child born out of wedlock" was replaced with "nonmarital child" was replaced with whatever the Left dreams up next. "Negro" (e.g. the United Negro College Fund) was replaced with "colored people" (e.g. the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) was replaced with "African-American" was replaced with "People of Color" was replaced with "Black." "Squaw" is an innocent, bias-free descriptor for a female Native American. Only the Orwellian Thought Police could think otherwise.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Right Time 8/26/2020 2:36:16 PM (No. 521554)
Did the white man create the term"squaw" way back, or wasn't 'squaw' the word used by the native Americans (i,e., Redskins) themselves to refer to their womenfolk?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/26/2020 2:38:30 PM (No. 521555)
The ski resort really needs to get a life. This is ridiculous.
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#18 - My neighbor is half native (great guy); his wife is Caucasian. Guess what he calls her?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 8/26/2020 3:10:19 PM (No. 521596)
Skiied there years ago. Normal stuff is now "offensive".
Big middle finger to those who are offended.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 8/26/2020 3:37:58 PM (No. 521639)
What do you mean Fox, used to mean? Words do not change meanings in a language. However Liberals will twist and hijack them to push their agenda. I have been to that area several times in my youth, and it is a beautiful place. Shame so much leftist ugliness has crept in. Are they going to issue new Olympic medals as well?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/26/2020 3:56:44 PM (No. 521659)
New Name: SUCK UP Valley Skidoodle Resort...
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When I was in the Army, there was training range in the Pacific Northwest that had a geological feature -a nice rounded hill — that was called Squaw’s Tit. Said so on our maps and everything. You could easily envisage how that name stuck.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DrOstrow 8/26/2020 4:25:02 PM (No. 521706)
Oh for the love of ................................................
People who are offended by common words offend me.
Somebody needs to grow at least one and tell these offended complainers to ..........................................................
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 8/26/2020 5:18:45 PM (No. 521775)
Who's saying “squaw” is a derogatory term for Native American women? Is that what they were called in some tribes?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Folsomguy 8/26/2020 5:25:27 PM (No. 521785)
To my generation, and probably the one after me, will always call this Squaw Valley regardless of what the cancel culture wants to call it.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
SALady 8/26/2020 7:53:20 PM (No. 521923)
The Indians that support this are suddenly going to wake up one day and find that nothing if named in any way that references Indians any more.
Then they are going to cry about how nobody honors Indian heritage!!! But you get what you asked for!!!!!
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
or gate 8/26/2020 8:12:37 PM (No. 521939)
That is the only name change that I have ever seen that needs it.
This is a very bad word in French.
Let the Indian Girls decide.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 8/26/2020 9:18:25 PM (No. 521979)
Since snow is white, change the name to Caucasian Valley Ski Resort. We won't mind.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Goose 8/27/2020 5:36:32 AM (No. 522163)
How niggardly of them!
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 8/27/2020 6:40:11 PM (No. 523153)
"But over generations, the word morphed into a misogynist and racist term to disparage Indigenous women."
Utter hogwash. Words do not "morph" Squaw is S-Q-U-A-W now and always. You can react to the word any way you choose. If you choose to think it is somehow "racist", that's your choice, not the word's.
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