The editor-in-chief of liberal magazine Mother Jones voiced concern Saturday that the name of the Tomahawk missile might offend Native Americans.
"That the missiles are callled [sic] tomahawks must enrage a lot of Native Americans," tweeted Clara Jeffery, days after the United States launched said missiles at a Syrian airfield used to launch chemical weapons attacks.
Jeffery's tweet earned her some grief from others on Twitter, who accused her of looking for something to be offended by.
Only those looking for a reason to be pissed off. It's tribute not mockery. twitter.com/ClaraJeffery/s…
Why don’t you whitesplain it to them. twitter.com/ClaraJeffery/s…
I'm Native American. You're an idiot. twitter.com/ClaraJeffery/s…
The tomahawk was created by Algonquian Indians and widely used by Native Americans and European colonialists alike. The iconic "pipe tomahawk" design of the colonial era was made using metal heads provided to tribes as gifts and goods from the British Navy.
7 comments:
Just rename them A$$HOLE missiles and these snowflakes won't notice.
They would be offended because then we'd be naming it after the liberal snowflakes. ❄❄
Omg get over it !
Genocide and biological weapon blankets pale in comparison to the insult of naming a middle after an Indian hatchet.
my last name is Jones and this offends my mother and all mothers who are jonesing for something
Get over it, like naming a football team Redskins.
wow lets see there's the apache helicopter, all those little piper planes with indian monikers, maybe we should call them by candy names?
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