'You are screwing up history': Petition to rename Squaw Valley in California because it is a derogatory term for Native American women is blasted for caving to political correctness

A petition to rename Squaw Valley in Fresno County, California because it is a derogatory term for Native American women has been blasted by some residents for caving to political correctness.

A controversial proposal to change the valley's name was put to the Orange Cove City Council Wednesday night after a man named Roman Rain Tree put forward the request in December.

The proposal says 'squaw' is a derogatory term used for Native American women that has come to mean 'both a part of the female genitalia and a woman of ill repute'.

As such, the current name Squaw Valley 'perpetuates a sexualized, exploitative, and humiliating narrative that continues to focus the desires and disgust of early Euro-Americans on the bodies of Native American women', it states.

Advocates for the change are calling for it to be renamed Nim Valley which they say will 'properly honor' the area's Native American communities, in particular Native American women.

But the proposal has sparked a backlash with the Orange Cove Mayor Victor Lopez vowing to refuse to back it and social media users blasting those calling for change as 'snowflakes'.

Orange Cove Council members shelved the renaming in a teleconference meeting Wednesday night saying they need more information before a decision can be reached.

Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig, who represents the Squaw Valley area, said Squaw Valley residents must be included in any discussion about a name change if it is put back on the table, reported YourCentralValley.com.

Magsig said in a Facebook Live earlier Wednesday he was 'not interested in having any cities trying to tell communities outside of their city limits what the names should be of those communities.'

He said residents had been contacting him concerned about the name change and insisted he did not support it unless the community itself wanted it changed.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9197393/Petition-rename-Squaw-Valley-derogatory-term-Native-American-women-blasted.html

PETA roasted for suggesting people drop animal names from insults

Animal rights organisation PETA has been roasted on social media after it called on people to stop using animals names to insult one another.

PETA, which stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, regularly draws the ire of the internet for its controversial campaigns in support of animals.

Taking to Twitter earlier this week, PETA said using animal names to insult people “reinforces the myth that humans are superior to other animals and justified in violating them”.

The organisation listed a number of optional ways to insult humans, including calling someone a “coward” instead of a “chicken” and calling someone “repulsive” instead of a “pig”.

The animal rights organisation said using animal names as slurs “isn’t just harmful, but also inaccurate”.

“Pigs, for instance, are intelligent, lead complex social lives, and show empathy for other pigs in distress. Snakes are clever, have family relationships, and prefer to associate with their relatives,” PETA said.

“Anti-animal slurs degrade animals by applying negative human traits to certain species.

“Perpetuating the idea that animals are sly, dirty, or heartless desensitises the public and normalises violence against other animals.”

The latest idea from PETA has been roasted online, with thousands of people piling on the organisation’s tweet.

Controversial Republican Senator Ted Cruz labelled the idea “bullsh*t” while author Michelle Elman brought up a previous animal insult PETA itself had used.

You must be forgetting the time you compared fat women to whales.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/peta-roasted-for-suggesting-people-drop-animal-names-from-insults/news-story/d8efb750f3662d610ae31b49e23a729f

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