Is Kemosabe a racist word? ⇒
18 January 2007, late morning
It really depends if Jared Taylor is the one saying it. (Click the link for a "Canada is going to shit because of all the immigrants" article by a prominent White-supremacist.)
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It may be racist, but I suppose whether people take offense is the real question.
Regardless, I don’t think anyone was offended by the fact that Jeff Rubin used the word “sheik” — I think it was the context that upset the public. Comparing his use of “sheik” doesn’t seem to be in line with the other guy’s use of the word “kemosabe”.
Personally, I think it’s pretty funny that he was calling everyone kemosabe. I wonder if he said it in a particular voice, sort of imitating the Lone Ranger. That would be the icing on the cake.
by rishi on January 18 2007, 12:04 pm #
Tonto was the one who called the Lone Ranger Kemosabe, so he’d need to do it in some faux Native American accent. (I hope he wasn’t doing that.)
People like Taylor and Sailer seem to argue that if they aren’t calling Black people Niggers, Chinese people Chinks, Brown people Pakis, etc, etc, they clearly aren’t racist. They aren’t White-Supremacists, they’re just White-Nationalists. Mind you, I don’t know what racism is.
by ramanan on January 18 2007, 12:27 pm #
Right, my bad. Tonto.
I don’t think name calling alone qualifies as racism.
by rishi on January 18 2007, 12:49 pm #