When people come with that supremacist pedestal
You’re missing the whole point...
You’re missing your own point. And big time even.
The propagation of the term marijuana/marihuana in this article’s context has everything to do with Mexico since that was exactly the demographic Hearst and Reefer Madness were geared against.
Another point you’re missing is that you are seemingly against historical cultural preservation.
Don’t worry, I’ve long accepted that in today’s society in this topic I’m on the losing side. But that does not take away that I am on the wrong side of preserving people’s own history rather than erasing it because we cocked up.
We already cocked up enough times to continue our imperial supremacist bullshit and continue telling others what of theirs is not appropriate and what they should adopt/accept instead. Because... that’s not appropriate.
PS: Spanish is a widespread language in the USA. The Indians didn’t import marijuana, neither did the Chinese so ganja, which itself is a bastard term, would not apply either. Neither are prominent languages either.
Marijuana, the term, is Spanish, the term used by those who brought the thing there’s no need to dig deeper just so you get away from that guilty feeling, it doesn’t fly like that. Stop erasing cultures because that’s the whole point to grasp.
Also, stop calling fries chips or freedom fries because they are fries, nothing else, right. Same logic and yes, I’m Belgian so I darn know what fries are.