He’s obviously full of shit. To him, that’s preferable to admitting he’s stupid.
This is why I don’t use American Indian at all and why I only refer to people who are from, or whose ancestors are from, India as Indians. There are a lot of Indian immigrants, and their descendants, in the US now. It doesn’t make any sense to refer to indigenous people as American Indian now, even if some indigenous people are ok with that label. It just makes more sense to refer to such people as Native Americans or indigenous people, even leaving the racism out of it.
