There's a move on to prohibit Washington's football team from calling itself "Redskins," even though a 2009 U.S. Supreme Court decision said that it has that right. Now the name change advocates are turning to the political arena and intimidation. The NCAA has already banned the University of North Dakota from calling its football team the "Fighting Sioux."
This is the classic method of busybodies and tyrants; they start out with something trivial or small and then magnify and extend it. If these people are successful in banning the use of Indian names for football teams, you can bet the rent money that won't end their agenda. Our military has a number of fighting aircraft named with what busybodies and tyrants might consider racial slights, such as the Apache, Iroquois, Kiowa, Lakota and Mescalero. We also have military aircraft named after animals, such as the Eagle, Falcon, Raptor, Cobra and Dolphin. The people fighting against the Redskins name might form a coalition with the PETA animal rights kooks to ban the use of animal names.
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6 comments:
It is the liberal way. To control others
So we'll call them the Washington Savages. There, name changed!
Or, to be more descriptive, the Washington Savage Aborigines.
Maybe the Washington Native Indians of The Americas.
Hmmm...
No, you liberal democrats...HEY!, now there's a derogatory name! I think Redskins is the best choice of all.
Maybe if we call them the Washington Muslims everything will be ok.
Barrak Hussein Obama offends me. Can that name.either mr. paul would be okay with me
It's all distraction from what's really happening in D.C. Deen, too. (Maybe we won't be seen...or heard...)
This, is the WORST packaged strawman argument I have ever heard in my life on this issue.
The term "Redskin" is a derogatory racial slur directed at Indians. It would be JUST as egregious if the team was called The Washington Wetbacks, or The Washington Wops, or The Washington Niggers.
Please do NOT censor this post for the use of these slurs, they are not being used in a hateful capacity, but rather being used to prove a point. If you do censor the post because of those words, then you NEED to remove the ENTIRE blog post for the same reason, using the RACIAL SLUR "REDSKIN".
See the irony in it? The racial slur Redneck is just as bad as the racial slurs Wetback, Wop, or Nigger. This is the argument being made, not the strawman that this article is presenting.
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