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Originally Posted by RchW
Yes it has. What do you think the term "Indian giver" means?
Theodore Roosevelt said, "I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are the dead Indians, but I believe nine out of every 10 are".
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"Indian" and "Indian giver" are two separate things. That is like saying "African-American" is offensive because of the racist phrase "African-American engineering."
For the Roosevelt quote, substitute "Caucasian" for "Indian" and tell me if that makes "Caucasian" an offensive term. Using a word in a racist sentence does not make the word itself offensive.