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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Did you miss, like, the last 500 years or something?

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It wasn’t Americans who invaded America…

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

How many genocided peoples called it America before the colonizers started killing them?

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works -4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean… Japan isn’t called Japan in Japanese either. Unfortunately we don’t speak Mayan, or Incan, or Cherokee, or etc.…

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I'm fairly certain they wouldn't collectively name it after a random ass Italian dude.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 days ago

My point was that it’s the only word we have in English.