One more, then I think I need to pack it in for the day before my head explodes..
San Francisco drops ‘chief’ from school job titles over cultural sensitivities
The San Francisco Unified School District announced Wednesday that it would no longer use the word “chief” in employee job titles due to its connection to Native American culture.
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“While there are many opinions on the matter, our leadership team agreed that, given that Native American members of our community have expressed concerns over the use of the title, we are no longer going to use it,” district spokeswoman Gentle Blythe said in a statement.
Dafuq? Just which Native American/Indigeous American/Indian/whateverthehellweresupposedtocallthem language does “chief” come from. What is the etymology?
Because I stupidly thought “chief” was an English word. That it came from Middle English in the 14th century, long before Europeans rediscovered North America.
That Europeans used their own word for the local headman (often a “headman” selected by said Euros, because little hunter/gather tribes actually had no such formal designation in the first place) in much the way that we might refer to a Generalissimo as a General in our own language.
Clearly, since San Franciscans couldn’t possibly be moronic mental midgets, the word really was imported from some obscure Native dialect, as we imported canyon from Spanish.
So which one?
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