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American Indian Genocide(s) (lemmy.world)

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[–] JustZ 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He said that while there was a push from academia about 30-40 years ago to refer to indigenous peoples

Academics don't care what you call other people. They aren't pushing anyone to do anything, except perhaps for people in their fields to recognize their novel, useful ideas.

All that matters to the academy is what peers are calling something. And that basically boils down to trends in language and the decisions the editors in chief of a few influential journals and a few influential authors in whatever field. You can say whatever you want. If you submit a paper for publication though they're probably going to change yours to their own preferred usage.

[–] oxomoxo 3 points 3 months ago

Yep, cool, I just meant trend, maybe ‘push’ was a poor choice of words.