Than anything Trump has said?

She was talking about Trump.

If Bernie said something racist or sexist would it be ok or not be brought up as long as it wasn't aimed at Hillary?

this is minor

And there is nothing minor about Clinton saying it.

But...do you really think this would be ignored if Bernie said it? I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.

I think bernie would not have said that in the first place.

He wouldn't but she did.

I'm just trying to point out the ridiculousness of calling it a minor issue, when we all know what would have happened if Bernie had said it.

Remember popegate?

but that was about trump. seriously.

You're reaching.

Hard to keep up with things when one is under sniper fire, after all.

but is this the battle you want to fight?

needlessly, but racism is important.

criticism now might help her think twice before using the phrase again in the future.

Who cares who it was aimed at? It's an insulting, racist phrase.

I just had agreed with that.

... If you are going to be offended at least spell the term correctly.

You should be proud.

I do.

Maybe thoughtless insults are all that is left.

And yeah, they are sensitive to things like this. Years and years of attempts to deny and destroy Native culture can lead to sensitivity. Go figure.

Wtf?

like bring them to heel

enemies catch her in these things. Not!! There are a bunch of reason why virtually all our "minority" groups support her.

Back to this no-no, I'm surprised after all her years in public she hasn't culled this phrase from her mind. No doubt her enemies among Far Lefters and the Right will eagerly supply sufficient aversion therapy to make sure it doesn't happen again, tho.

and to my knowledge, she has never reached out to native americans or muslims or independents,or college students or poor kids

agree that the earth is round.

Nevertheless, the major blocks within each major minority group, and most of the others, support her, including most Asian Americans, most Latinos, most Blacks, most Native Americans, most Muslims, most sexual-identity groups, and most left-leaning independents. Bernie has most LIBERAL college students, not most college students.

This extremely broad support doesn't fit the evil-Hillary frame, but it's reality.

If one were to judge who should be our national leader by breadth of support alone in an extremely varied nation, Hillary would be outstandingly the one right choice.

Pathetic excuse.

if they say it is offensive, just never occurred to me that it was anything negative about being on the reservation. Not exactly been on my radar.

It was a racist use of a.racist term
Being on the reservation is not good thats where your government put us acter they had tried every other method.crom smallpox to massacres to steal our lands and make us disappear
Its fucking racist and disgusting and i dont give a european fuck if it was directed at trump or not.

old movie.

over it ever. Just conceptually, it wouldn't occur to me, because being on the res is a good thing. But I guess if that is because you'd be in danger, it isn't good. Never had a reason to think about it. Gotta love people implying I am racist for never having to have to think about it. That's awesome.

It implies that when you go "off the reservation" you are doing something shady like getting drunk and killing or stealing cattle, etc.

If you will, consider the use of the "Washington Redskins". Native Americans say it is offensive to them. They say the use of "Off the reservation" is rude. I'm not a Native American, but if they say either are offensive, who am I to disagree with them?

I can easily pick up on casual sexism, as well as casual homophobia. Just because someone is oblivious to it doesn't make it okay.

I had always assumed it was more about unity- leaving your roots (which is not necessarily a bad thing!) - but the bigger history was not something I ever had to consider. Thanks!

we all mess up in some way like this. The only way to change it is to kindly discuss it with each other.

context would naturally be the place I preferred us all to be. Never thought of it as being a swipe AT reservations, but never had the chance to give it deep thought. Not sure I have heard the phrase outside of old movies.

I had a conversation with someone recently who only just found out that "gypped" is a slur against the Romani.

Here's a fucked up one I just learned about - "Free, White, and 21".. At least that one didnt survive into the current zeitgeist.

I'm old enough to remember "Song of the South", too.

love old movies. And there is always tons of archaic and disturbing stuff in old movies. Honestly, the little I have known about "the rez" have been from a couple people who spoke proudly of being from the rez, so I really always took it as a unity thing. But I don't think I have heard it in a good twenty years.

Thats why she should have me writing her speeches.

And I WISH I could say that about some fuckers here, LOL.

THEY COULD USE MORE PEOPLE LIKE US!

(Although if I'm rigorously honest with myself, sometimes I am unpleasant. Especially when I haven't eaten)

Also, to the Hillary Campaign, I work cheap. Except the only person I know of here actually tied to the campaign probably doesn't like me since I made fun of him for thinking the name of my state's Jr. Senator is "Jeff Berkeley"

a world of good, LOL.

that instead of staying on the reservation, with the "good and obedient" population, this individual or group has "gone renegade" and needs to be dealt with.

Just as offensive as the "inside" point of view, no doubt.

But, yes, the term has been used in meetings at work, and I'm sure no hostility was intended, but ...

I think about several things I say now. Even about animals. I'm more sensitive than I used to be. Maybe old age or just maybe more compassion for life as I get older.

Both sides are becoming absurd with this...

Same meaning and nothing nefarious about the term despite your ridiculous false claims.

in which he said it is NOT that

She said she was sorry for make-um heap big boo boo. Kemosabe.

seem innocuous but have deeply offensive origins that you were unaware of. I know I have been embarrassed by letting some things slip by.

That said, Hillary deserves to be reprimanded. It shows her need to examine her own awareness before she slings rocks and arrows at people like Bernie as being sexist and racist. For all the grief thrown at Bernie for using the word ghetto in its very personal and original sense to him.

No one in their right mind would ever use that phrase out in Lapwai.

This reservation is larger than some Eastern states and is populated by a tribe that never surrendered.

Most people know its a highly offensive statement. But just try and explain that to the clink of clannikans purveying it.

I do not care for it at all.

says something to shore up Clinton.

Read the article instead of trying to emphasize what some anonymous person had to say.

The article has the author's name attached to it, so it is easy to know whose work you are reading.

In any case, my point is that I read an article with an attributed author that said something entirely different. Furthermore, I agree with the author of the article. If asked, I wonder how wholehearted that endorsement would be today.

communities to let them know he is with them.

when it involves her around here.

This is mildly offensive at best. Like a fart in church. Let it pass and focus on the homily. There's some crazy shit happening in the pulpit.

....shortly after that comment, and most people consider it over and done with.

That most of her supporters (see what I did there) give her a pass on for some reason.

Who cares if it's a day old? Maybe that's not the point?

....but she did, and everyone has already moved on.

I'd like to apologize for using this phrase, with and without my American Indian clients, virtually every day of my professional life with them, hundreds of times, often ironically but not always, for years.

I expect about half of Indian Country will be lining up to join me.

"I have a lot of experience dealing with women who sometimes get off the reservation in the way they behave and how they speak."

It may just be my experience, but I hear a lot of "I'm not wrong, I just didn't know it was racist, so no big deal" baby boomer generation non-apologies. That may suffice for the general population of ignoramuses, but a politician, someone who strives to be a leader of the United States, should know better.

but appealing to the Least Common Denominator among those who now call themselves Democrats.