Please stop calling that particular homeless encampment "The Jungle". The term and the imagery inherent in that name - a place of such intense human suffering - is both demeaning and racist to its inhabitants.
Insn't the term organic in the sense that it was called that by the people that passed through there, and lived there? If that's the case, it is not racist or demeaning to call it the "jungle."
Everybody: thanks for chatting about this one, regardless of how you feel. This one's been bothering me for awhile - I'd love to be convinced that it's "OK-ish" but I'm just not feeling it.
There have been many names for neighborhoods over the years inhabited by a single race, poor people, or both. Some stick, some change with the times.
Is the term "Chinatown" racist when used by non-Asians?
Is it OK to refer to someone's neighborhood as a "ghetto" if they're poor and you're not?
What should we call it then? Upper Sodo? Stadium View? Should we consult a real estate marketing firm?
As far as Chinatown is concerned, several decades back an earlier generation of Seattle navel-gazers decided that Chinatown should be called the International District, and many Asians - Chinese and otherwise - were dissatisfied with that result.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1tj2zJ2…
http://www.authentichistory.com/diversit…
@2 was being sarcastic, I think.
There have been many names for neighborhoods over the years inhabited by a single race, poor people, or both. Some stick, some change with the times.
Is the term "Chinatown" racist when used by non-Asians?
Is it OK to refer to someone's neighborhood as a "ghetto" if they're poor and you're not?
As far as Chinatown is concerned, several decades back an earlier generation of Seattle navel-gazers decided that Chinatown should be called the International District, and many Asians - Chinese and otherwise - were dissatisfied with that result.