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First off, we want to tell you how much we appreciate everyone who reached out expressing discomfort about the use of an outdated and offensive term in not one, but two pieces of content within the past few weeks - our Dropout Presents special Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson and the most recent episode of Breaking News. These should have been caught and removed at an earlier stage, and we want to apologize for letting this happen, especially to all indigenous Inuit, Yupik, and Aleut fans. Chris brought the issue to our attention as well, and we've been working with him to ensure everything was properly addressed.

But what are we doing about it? For one, removing the offensive slurs from those respective episodes. And second, we're donating $5,000 to Arctic Rose, a non-profit organization that helps Northern Inuit & Indigenous youth by providing safe spaces to participate and grow through Indigenous-led, arts-based, and culturally grounded programs.

We appreciate everyone who brought this issue to our attention, and will be mindful about it going forward!

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https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/04/24/475129558/why-you-probably-shouldnt-say-eskimo

Here is a video of a inuit person saying how they feel about the word

https://www.tiktok.com/@inuksuk/video/7085774985393868038

So if you are generally asking about it the consensus is: if you're not of arctic indigenous origins, don't use it because at the end of the day it has been used by colonists as a slur.

But I would take a guess you're being pandantic about this situation not because you want to learn. The inuit have been trying to get people to stop using the word in questions for a while, and it's one thing to not know, and a whole other bs situation to try and get an answer that is 1. easy to find the answer yourself and 2 such a specific scenario to get an answer that you won't take it serious u til you get it. That is a literal technique used by racists and has been in use forever.

But in the event you were generally curious, here you go!

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