Zizek has a great example. The term "native American" is used by wokes as more respectful term for Indian. But "American" is a European term. The term Native American and Indian are equivalent and both imply that the Native Americans/Indians are lesser than the white immigrant population. Both terms are inherently racist. There's no shortage of Native American languages to pick words from. Perhaps one of those? But those won't catch on, because then the majority population wokes won't have a word, they understand, telling them how much more awesome they are than Native Americans.
Your explanation for the term "Native American" is that it has to be an English word so racists can feel good about themselves?
As in:
"American" is superior to "Native American"?
"American" is superior to "Indian"?
The example Zizek gave in the video was pretty funny. One perticular guy prefers to be called "Indian" instead of "Native American" because it's a constant reminder of white people's stupidity. I can get behind that!
There's a page on WIkipedia that gives an overview of this problem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_name_controversy
Your explanation doesn't feature at all. At most, it could be inferred by the fact that some indigenous people reject all exonyms, no matter what language they are in. You wouldn't fix this problem by picking a Native American word, either, because you'd be missing the point.
No, wait... there's an even better way to settle this.
Just fuck everybody's feelings. Don't put so much importance on what other people call you. Let everybody use whatever words they want. If it hurts your feelings... that's ok. We don't need to agree on using any terms. This is a stupid pseudo debate in order for one group, the woke's to get to inflate their own importance and feel superior to those who use the wrong words. We just need to get better at tolerating the fuck ups of ignorant people. And it's got to be ok to be ignorant. Not everybody needs to know every cultural quirk of every culture. That's just dumb. And demanding that from normal people is as ridiculous as it is extreme.
I'm pretty sure that native Americans are more upset about being relegated to reserves and having their ancestors murdered rather than what words you use to call them. There's no culturally sensitive way to paper over that lil' transgression.
In order to be considered a civilized citizen of USA nobody should be required to read that wikipedia page. Nobody. And nobody should be considered a bad person for using the wrong word. How about focusing on good intentions instead? Woke's don't seem to care about the intent. They're more focused on packaging than content. More focused on what can be copy pasted and shared on social media rather than what people are actually trying to do.
And more importantly, just because you use a more politically correct word than someone else, doesn't make you a better person than them. You know nothing about them or why they said what they said.