Sitting "indian style" is offensive?

[Whiteboy]

he was indian?

wasnt

[Turbosvo]

Damn, now that I think about it my daught says crisscross applesauce to sit Indian style.

[Doug Hatton]

I guess kids playing "cowboys and Indians" would definitely be out of the question then

[racegirl]

I suggested that someone sit indian style on the floor tonight, rather than bother getting a chair, and was told by a friend of a friend that the phrase "indian style" in no longer PC.

Are any of you offended at all by this phrase, or is this more mindless liberal bullshit?

FWIW, the correcting party is a gradeschool teacher in San Diego, and she told me that she has her kids say something like "ankles under knees, on your bottom please" instead.

It's because you live in Cali! Hippies

[CJ-95GT]

I guess kids playing "cowboys and Indians" would definitely be out of the question then

Indian wrestling would also be out. Crisscross wrestling does not compute.

[LaserSVT]

Back around 1981, I was having a conversation with this black girl at work and she was talking about rigging something up at home. My first thought was, "What does rigging mean?". Then it occurred to me, "Oh!! She mean's ni66er-rigging". Her terminology seemed strange to me. That was always a term I had used growing up and never thought of it as a deragatory term.

I started saying "Afro engineering" about 18 years ago and my black friends always laugh.

Oddly enough a couple years ago I started hearing others use the same phrase. Made me wonder if I coined it then I realized I am not clever enough for that and prolly stole it from someone else. LOL!

[Z06killinsbf]

I guess kids playing "cowboys and Indians" would definitely be out of the question then

I prefer to play cowboys and ni66ers.
















j/p, I love that song though.

[TENGRAM]

injuns are badass motherfuckers! Is it even possible to be derogatory to badass motherfuckers??

[Nash B.]

To me cross legged meant to put one leg over the other when you are sitting in a chair. Which looks Ghey, BTW.

You can also cross your legs when you're sitting on the floor. Bend your knees and tuck your feet under them, and suddenly you're sitting cross-legged on the floor!

That's what it was, I didn't put much though into after she went of bout not being PC, I just remember it being a rhyme.

The fact that you came up with that rhyme is almost as bad as the original rhyme.

Back around 1981, I was having a conversation with this black girl at work and she was talking about rigging something up at home. My first thought was, "What does rigging mean?". Then it occurred to me, "Oh!! She mean's ni66er-rigging". Her terminology seemed strange to me. That was always a term I had used growing up and never thought of it as a deragatory term.

Well, it is a derogatory term and doesn't have the same meaning as "rigging."

wasnt

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a woman?

[jdgregory84]

I prefer to play cowboys and ni66ers.

I liked when other kids played ninjas vs mexicans. Didn't matter which one of them lost, I always won.

[line-em-up]

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Well, it is a derogatory term and doesn't have the same meaning as "rigging."

Rigging definition: To make or construct in haste or in a makeshift manner: rig up a tent for the night.

He rigged the tent.
He ni66er-rigged the tent. How is that not the same meaning?

Of course it is considered derogatory now. Times have changed in the last 30 years.

[FATHERFORD]

I started saying "Afro engineering" about 18 years ago and my black friends always laugh.

Oddly enough a couple years ago I started hearing others use the same phrase. Made me wonder if I coined it then I realized I am not clever enough for that and prolly stole it from someone else. LOL!

It is now referred to as presidential solution.

[MutherjuggZ]

I suggested that someone sit indian style on the floor tonight, rather than bother getting a chair, and was told by a friend of a friend that the phrase "indian style" in no longer PC.

Are any of you offended at all by this phrase, or is this more mindless liberal bullshit?

FWIW, the correcting party is a gradeschool teacher in San Diego, and she told me that she has her kids say something like "ankles under knees, on your bottom please" instead.

they say "criss cross apple sauce" now at burleson schools instead of indian style, but I have always and will always call it indian style.

[cool cat]

I get criss cross, but how does applesauce fit into the picture? isn't that offenssive to apple?

[line-em-up]

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I get criss cross, but how does applesauce fit into the picture? isn't that offenssive to apple?

Maybe it's what is left on the floor after that hippo girl gets up from the floor.