I personally don't find the use of "sherpa" in the #SCOTUS confirmation process to be offensive; as noted by @BGZimmer, the word has been "largely disconnected from its cultural origins," & I don't think it's used nowadays in an exoticisizing way.https://twitter.com/howappealing/status/1024288889798840320 …
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“Ethnic group” is a somewhat misleading way to describe a Roman-era Germanic tribe that hasn’t existed in hundreds of years. Not quite apples-to-apples there.
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Their descendants are still alive. They originated in Poland. What’s the difference btw ethnic group and tribe? Nothing.
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The descendants of the Estrucans and Phoenicians are also still alive, as is the case for dozens of other civilizations of antiquity; that doesn't make it analytically useful or accurate to suggest they constitute a modern "ethnic group"
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So using their name as a slur is okay so long as they don’t exist today?
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