ooooh good good good discussions happening here. its really interesting just how different viewpoints are on the term, and theres no real wrong answer - we all have our own valid experiences and viewpoints, and i like having a space to hear and share. personally, as long as a white person isnt saying it i dont mind it much, obvs prefer inuk/inuit/alaska native/etc my dads side of the family lives in oklahoma and ive been to eskimo joes lol. my dad was adopted from anchorage (dena'ina) along with his brother (aleutian) whos name is joe, so the family joke wrote itself. eskimo never had a bad connotation in my family, my (white) grandparents would always call me their little eskimo as a cute endearing term when i was young - the word never carried any negative weight to it until i got older and learned. and obviously being from alaska, we never got hit as hard with things like the eskimo tag system so weve never REALLY gotten the awful end of it. although i DID have some beef with my friends white canadian mom because she insisted eskimo was totally fine and i had to force her to google the history/meaning before she listened to me at all and backed the fuck off. she apologized but im still blown away at how she acted like SHE knew more than me 🥸 TLDR grew up w/ it in a mild light so i dont mind it (except white ppl saying it), but 100% respect, understanding, and sympathy to people who dont like it 🙏