I really want Irish academics to also stop using indigenous in their work. The word isn’t neutral and the continued use of it legitimizes this nonsense in the photo above.
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There are other words to use. Autochthonous or local, perhaps.
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But it is a white supremacist dogwhistle to refer to the “indigenous” inhabitants of Europe because it is used in an anti-immigrant, anti-refugee, anti-semitic, and generally racist context.
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Seriously, I have read maybe 8 publications in the last month that refer to indigenous Irish.
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This is all kinds of wrong
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