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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do not give a fuck what the origin of the word "America" was.

And that's why your position is wrong. I'm not kidding, you need to care about these things. It's the part of this argument that seems to elude you.

It sounds like you don't even disagree that you should just ask people what they prefer, so maybe tone down the "let me tell you the only terms you're allowed to use for a people I don't belong to." It's not for us to say.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Explain to me the relevance that an English word came from an Italian man, then. The continent is called North America. That's what it is called in the language we are conversing in. The word's origin means nothing. What word should we use instead?