I'm not disregarding wishes. I'll call any INDIVIDUAL whatever they want to be called. Groups will be referred to by the most accurate and accepted name. Indians are from India and it's ridiculous to call Native Americans/American Indians that. It's as ridiculous as calling any black person "African American", like when the interviewer insisted on that terminology for Idris Elba, a black British man. That's it. I'm not calling them "Redskins", for example. I'm using a perfectly respectful and accepted term and not one that may or may not be accepted, depending on who you ask, and not one that is literally incorrect.

Edit: There's a person directly below this comment whose relatives hate the term "Indian".

Buuuuuut.... you did say "Unless you're American indian", so that does imply that you or someone else CAN speak for all of a group. So I'm a bit confused here. I will call you whatever you'd like me to call you, including "Indian" on its own if that's what you'd prefer to be called (even though that doesn't make sense to me), but you didn't actually answer my questions. Let me try again- how is it bigoted to not assume that a group of people would want to be called something that is fundamentally incorrect by definition, has a turbulent history, and is not what most federal programs call them- you yourself say that the benefits go to "American Indians", not "Indians".

Thanks for the coloring page, is it one of your favorites?

They actually recently changed that name. They're the Cleveland Guardians as of 2021.

So you speak for ALL American Indians, then? Do I speak for ALL Germans? Or have I been in the US long enough that I'm no longer German? My grandmother was born in Germany, is that too far? Or is it just skin color, I speak for all whites, no matter the country or culture of origin? I'm curious to the rules here- I shouldn't speak for American Indians because I'm not one, right? So who can speak for all American Indians and all 547 distinct tribes (federally recognized)? Do you speak for every tribe? If not you, then who? Your phrasing was "Unless you're American indian", so... yes? You speak for all 547 tribes and 5.2 million people?

What? Where do you work that you get paid for 40 hours while working and clocked in for 32 and also get to be clocked in while you're not there? I have a fantastic boss and do not let myself get pushed around.

Hell no. I've been salaried and I've been hourly. I am more than willing to put in a few 50-55 or so hour weeks a year in exchange for being able to come in late or leave early for appointments without trouble, working about 35 hours a week every other week at most, being able to work from home more or less whenever I need to, never getting flagged for not clocking in/out at the right time... the list goes on and on. My salary is for 40 hour weeks, and I hold to that when I need to. But the reality of my job is that when there's a crisis I need to be there. I'll take that for all the advantages any day.

Unless you're salary. A wise man once told me "The longer it takes us to do this, the closer we get to minimum wage."

I don't know why q47tx uses it, but there are a lot of niche support communities that would be very difficult to give up. Subs that encourage sobriety, give basic legal or medical advice to those that can't afford lawyers/doctors, and subs with resources for domestic violence are just a few examples. I don't begrudge anyone for continuing to use reddit if they use it for things like that. I find myself there often because unfortunately, it's basically the largest resource for user-curated information and solutions, and a lot of my google searches for particular issues are only solved by going to an answer there. The part where I'll judge someone is if they continue to mindlessly browse reddit, as I used to until the API fuckery, but for all those things, yeah, reddit is still the best, as much as I don't want it to be. Lemmy could get there eventually, but the simple fact is, it's not yet.