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minus-squareatomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down5·11 days agoIt wasn’t Americans who invaded America…
minus-squareShinkanTrain@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-211 days agoHow many genocided peoples called it America before the colonizers started killing them?
minus-squareatomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down5·11 days agoI mean… Japan isn’t called Japan in Japanese either. Unfortunately we don’t speak Mayan, or Incan, or Cherokee, or etc.…
minus-squareShinkanTrain@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-211 days agoI’m fairly certain they wouldn’t collectively name it after a random ass Italian dude.
minus-squareatomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·10 days agoMy point was that it’s the only word we have in English.
It wasn’t Americans who invaded America…
How many genocided peoples called it America before the colonizers started killing them?
I mean… Japan isn’t called Japan in Japanese either. Unfortunately we don’t speak Mayan, or Incan, or Cherokee, or etc.…
I’m fairly certain they wouldn’t collectively name it after a random ass Italian dude.
My point was that it’s the only word we have in English.