2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum'Indianoplace'? That's what Hillary Clinton called us
http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/behind-closed-doors/2015/10/02/hillary-clinton-indiana-basketball-indianoplace-email/73218878/Indianapolis has done much in recent years to bolster its image OK, create an image with an increasingly thriving Downtown, an award-winning airport, and its penchant for hosting big-time sporting events such as, you know, that little thing they call the Super Bowl.
"Are you still in basketball-crazed Indianoplace?" Clinton wrote in an email to an aide in 2010, one of the many missives or maybe we should call them diss-ives recently released by the U.S. State Department in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
Then again, she also is apparently hip to Indys not-so-hip "noplace" and "naptown" nicknames.
How unhip? The UrbanDictionary.com says "Indianoplace" is generally regarded as a derogatory name for Indianapolis. And then adds this zinger: "Comes from the evident lack of anything to do other than get drunk and watch sports and the apparent resistance of many of its inhabitants to allow culture, change, or diversity into the mix."
I wasn't going to post this because at first I assumed they were being silly about a typo. And then I got to the urban dictionary paragraph.
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)I never heard that before, or ever even heard mention of that pronunciation of Indianapolis by anyone ever before in my life. Could it have been a typo?
djean111
(14,255 posts)And I personally feel that Hillary regards the entire 99% as "noplace", except for their votes.
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)So, I gather it is something "used" as a derogatory reference to the city? Completely unfamiliar with the term and the intended meaning. If it was a purposeful use of the term, then what connotation is being inferred by it's use? Guess I should probably look it up. Interesting post. Thanks.
OK, I looked it up and got a surprising number of links to a term I've simply never heard of before in my life...and I'm pretty old according to my kids. It appears to be a term used essentially by the elite, but I would guess given the size of the Clinton bank account you could consider them part of the elite?
Helena the rich woman: "Oh, Lancelot! My heart hangs heavy! We shall never see young Chadwick again!!"
Lancelot (dropping monocle in his caviar): "No!! Has he passed on?"
Helena the rich woman: "Worse, dearest one! He has moved to... (30 second pause) INDIANOPLACE!!!!"
I suspect you'll be getting an apology over this one now that it's apparently been made public.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)Top Definition
Indianoplace
n. Generally regarded as derogatory name for Indianapolis, Indiana. Comes from the evident lack of anything to do other than get drunk and watch sports and the appearant resistance of many of its inhabitants to allow culture, change, or diversity into the mix.
Helena the rich woman: "Oh, Lancelot! My heart hangs heavy! We shall never see young Chadwick again!!"
Lancelot (dropping monocle in his caviar): "No!! Has he passed on?"
Helena the rich woman: "Worse, dearest one! He has moved to... (30 second pause) INDIANOPLACE!!!!"
(Both gasp in terror. Organ music. A guy in overalls shucks corn in the distance ominously.)
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)and edited my post to add the definition. Based on it clearly being something used most frequently by the elite, I am guessing that she has probably heard that many times in her life and possibly regarded it as a cutsey thing not truly understanding the background? I almost have to believe that to be the case because if the use was intentional knowing full what the actual image it imparts then that's something I believe she should be called upon to justify. I'll bet dollars to donuts she will state that she didn't really understand the meaning it conveyed when she used it.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Oh my! To the fainting couch.
The first and only time I heard that nickname for Indianapolis was from a native thereof.
Show me the place that doesn't have a takeoff on the name or slogan.
Good golly of all the things to get worked up over... You forgot to put "Hoosier trigger alert" in the subject line.
Of course the town and the state are named after "Indians", since the natives of this continent were originally hoped to be somewhere else entirely.
It should be Nativeamericanapolis, but everyone insists on using the offensive term Indianapolis.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)but from what I've read at least some of the locals were unhappy with it.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Anyone ever ask what Native Americans think of the correct name anyway?
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)I don't know if anybody ever asked the Native Americans what they think of it, but I suspect they were less than thrilled.
Which has exactly what to do with Hillary's email dissing of the place?
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)And you never bothered to find out. Because, well, who gives a shit that they were run out of the area that was then ironically misnamed after them.
But you insist on people using the derogatory term "Indian" to refer to things named after Native Americans?
Is that it?
Are you one of those "I don't see why the Redskins should change their name" folks too?
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)The articles that refer to "locals" are referring to people living in the area right now. They didn't specifically ask what local Native Americans think of the renaming of their home.
Your attempt at distraction/hijacking has reached the point of annoying. Welcome to ignore.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)There is no racist or sexist or homophobic crap but it can be very salty and profane.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)DCBob
(24,689 posts)This is so unfair to dump tens of thousands of her personal emails out to the public. Would anyone not have anything in their emails that might be considered controversial over a period of 4 years??
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)boston bean
(36,223 posts)BlueWaveDem
(403 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)We should go through all of her emails looking for typos, misspellings, bad jokes, sarcastic comments, incorrect punctuation ... because we do that with all candidates for President.
LoveIsNow
(356 posts)They've been there. They know it deserves that name.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)in the 1950s and 60s. We always called it (half endearingly, half scornfully) "Indianoplace." It's what the natives always called it. I still refer to it that way sometimes, though it's changed immensely since my days there.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Who of us hasn't made fun of one or more American locales?