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Ah, so, it isn't really a racial slur then, is it?
Go say it then.
Ah, so, it isn't really a racial slur then, is it?
Kind of like black people who played in the Negro Leagues. But yeah...
Having a laugh is never a waste, especially when you're learning.We aren't talking about the GOP.
Join us on topic or quote someone else's posts.
This was a waste of 40 seconds, 35 of it trying to read your gibberish and 5 typing this response.
Go say it then.
That I agree with, though undoubtably for a different reason than you. The Redskins PR staff's incompetence rivals that of John Huntsman campaign managers in the last primary season. They've been RIDICULOUSLY stupid in this whole thing. The worst thing you can do with a ridiculous persons ridiculous bull**** is to actually respond to it as if it's legitimate and worthy of discussion. The Redskins had largely not addressed the issue for years and as such it would flare up once in a while but quickly die out because no one really gave a ****, the majority of native americans included. But for whatever idiotic reason the Redskins thought it'd be intelligent to try and make a comment against it at one those flare up points and then have CONTINUED to make comments over and over again....often in ridiculously stupid fashion...that has kept this going. At this point the various PR backlash (which is bad) and boycotts (Which are in reality largely irrelevant in terms of their impact thus far) are absolutely in large part their own doing.
The accuracy of polls significantly degrades when measuring very small subgroups.None of which changes that it was still conducted in accordance with the standards for scientifically conducting such a poll. The entire purpose of polling is to garner a sample that can then realistically be extrapolated to the samples group at large.
Agreed, it's the best we have. But it should be weighted according to its reliability which is better than nothing, but not great.I admit, it's an old poll. The data may have changed slightly. But once again I'll note it is the most recent FACTUAL EVIDENCE on this manner that I've seen. if you have something more recent please present it. Otherwise I'll go with scientifically conducted, FACTUAL, information over anecdotal evidenced based primarily over whose loudest and gets the most media attention (Which has been deridingly skewed)
Touche' Point you.I find this funny that you claim "native americans", stated in this broad fashion, have been complaining since the 60's...but then suddenly you're suggesting that native americans didn't have the knowledge to be introspective on the issue :roll:
True, but aren't those the ones we should be most concerned with?Not all native americans are members of active tribes.
Yes, but statically understating demographically concentrated areas will skew your polls.Once again, native americans on reservations are not the only native americans. Secondly, that still provides for a significant sample on reservations that were able to answer a land line poll. Once again, do some research and take some classes on how polling is conducted....the entire purpose for scientific polling is an understanding that you can't reach every single person within a population.
And no, that's not accurate.. In any statistical query you're going to have a confidence measure. I'd say that you could say with 10% confidence that 90% of Native Americans are not bothered by the Redskins name.Which is why it's accurate to claim, at the very least, 90% of native americans are not bothered by the name.
There's nothing more recent. But things don't become more true in the absence of other information.You find me something "more accurate" or "more recent" and I'll be happy to have it. If you don't, all you're doing is pissing and moaning with quibbles and casting stones because I'm actually going off something factually sound and you're going off pure and utter anecdotal. You say the poll has issues? I say your factual evidence as to the names offense or the belief of native americans that it should be changed to be nonexistent. I'll take some minor issues over nonexistent.
Native Americans and organizations opposed[edit]
Native Americans and organizations opposed[edit]
The following groups have passed resolutions or issued statements regarding their opposition to the name of the Washington NFL team:
Tribes[edit]
Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians[154]
Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma[154]
Comanche Nation of Oklahoma[154]
The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (Washington)[154]
Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians (Michigan)
Hoh Indian Tribe[155]
Inter Tribal Council of Arizona[156]
Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes[157]
Juaneño Band of Mission Indians (California)[154]
Little River Band of Ottawa Indians (Michigan)
Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians, Gun Lake Tribe (Michigan)[158]
Menominee Tribe of Indians (Wisconsin)[154]
Oneida Indian Nation (New York)[159]
Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin[154]
Navajo Nation Council[98]
Penobscot Nation[160]
Poarch Band of Creek Indians[161]
Samish Indian Nation (Washington)[162]
Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians (Michigan)[163]
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes (Idaho)[164]
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (North Dakota)
The Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (North Dakota)[165]
United South and Eastern Tribes (USET)[166]
Organizations[edit]
Advocates for American Indian Children (California)
American Indian Mental Health Association (Minnesota)
American Indian Movement[167]
American Indian Opportunities Industrialization Center of San Bernardino County
American Indian Student Services at the Ohio State University
American Indian High Education Consortium
American Indian College Fund
Americans for Indian Opportunity
Association on American Indian Affairs
Buncombe County Native American Inter-tribal Association (North Carolina)
Capitol Area Indian Resources (Sacramento, CA)
Concerned American Indian Parents (Minnesota)
Council for Indigenous North Americans (University of Southern Maine)
Eagle and Condor Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance
First Peoples Worldwide
Fontana Native American Indian Center, Inc. (California)
Governor’s Interstate Indian Council
Greater Tulsa Area Indian Affairs Commission
Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council (Wisconsin)
HONOR – Honor Our Neighbors Origins and Rights
Kansas Association for Native American Education
Maryland Commission on Indian Affairs
Medicine Wheel Inter-tribal Association (Louisiana)
Minnesota Indian Education Association
National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)
National Indian Child Welfare Association
National Indian Education Association
National Indian Youth Council
National Native American Law Student Association
Native American Caucus of the California Democratic Party
Native American Finance Officers Association (NAFOA)[168]
Native American Journalists Association[169]
Native American Indian Center of Central Ohio
Native American Journalists Association
Native American Rights Fund (NARF)
Native Voice Network
Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs
Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi (Michigan)
North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs
North Dakota Indian Education Association
Office of Native American Ministry, Diocese of Grand Rapids (Michigan)
Ohio Center for Native American Affairs
San Bernardino/Riverside Counties Native American Community Council
Seminole Nation of Oklahoma
Society of Indian Psychologists of the Americas
Southern California Indian Center
St. Cloud State University – American Indian Center
Tennessee Chapter of the National Coalition for the Preservation of Indigenous Cultures
Tennessee Commission of Indian Affairs
Tennessee Native Veterans Society
Tulsa Indian Coalition Against Racism[170]
The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
Unified Coalition for American Indian Concerns, Virginia
The United Indian Nations of Oklahoma
Virginia American Indian Cultural Resource Center
Wisconsin Indian Education Association
WIEA “Indian” Mascot and Logo Taskforce (Wisconsin)
Woodland Indian Community Center-Lansing (Michigan)
Youth “Indian” Mascot and Logo Task force (Wisconsin)
Individuals[edit]
These prominent Native Americans have put their opposition to the Redskins' name on the public record:
Sherman Alexie (author, Spokane)[171]
Notah Begay (Navajo, PGA pro golfer) called the Redskins' name "a very clear example of institutionalized degradation of an ethnic minority."[172]
Clyde Bellecourt (Ojibwe, co-founder of the American Indian Movement)[173]
Bob Burns (Blackfeet elder)[174]
Vine Deloria, Jr. (Sioux, historian/author)[175]
Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Northern Cheyenne, U.S. Senator)[176]
Kevin Gover (Pawnee, director of The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian)[177]
Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne/Hodulgee Muscogee, author/activist)[178]
Litefoot (Cherokee/Chichimeca, rapper) ironically celebrates Native American team names as "recreational genocide" on the track 'Stereotipik'.[179]
Russell Means (Oglala Lakota, activist/actor)[180]
Billy Mills (Sioux, Olympic gold medal winner)[181]
Ted Nolan (First Nations Ojibway, NHL player and coach)[182]
Buford Rolin (Creek tribal chairman)[183]
Shoni Schimmel (Umatilla, Louisville Cardinals guard, class of 2015)[184]
Charlene Teters (Spokane, artist/lecturer)[185]
W. Richard West Jr. (Cheyenne) - President of the Autry National Center in Los Angeles: Redskin is "an openly derogatory term. It always is and it always has been.” West also characterizes the Original American's Foundation as an "attempt to divert attention from the fact that his team’s nickname is coming under increasing heat from people who think it’s an offensive racial term."[186]
No, because that has nothing to do with what I posted.
Why would Navajo Indians in AZ intentionally slur themselves if the term "Redskins" is a slur?
By the way, most people don't use the term "Negro" anymore. You must be confusing me with Harry Reid.
Harry Reid is making this political. Did you see that SOB on the Senate floor today throwing lobs at Snyder?
My point is that this is human nature and it happens a lot. I think you agree with me but aren't quite willing to admit it. That's fine.
Why would the United Negro College Fund use that term then?
That I agree with, though undoubtably for a different reason than you. The Redskins PR staff's incompetence rivals that of John Huntsman campaign managers in the last primary season. They've been RIDICULOUSLY stupid in this whole thing. The worst thing you can do with a ridiculous persons ridiculous bull**** is to actually respond to it as if it's legitimate and worthy of discussion. The Redskins had largely not addressed the issue for years and as such it would flare up once in a while but quickly die out because no one really gave a ****, the majority of native americans included. But for whatever idiotic reason the Redskins thought it'd be intelligent to try and make a comment against it at one those flare up points and then have CONTINUED to make comments over and over again....often in ridiculously stupid fashion...that has kept this going. At this point the various PR backlash (which is bad) and boycotts (Which are in reality largely irrelevant in terms of their impact thus far) are absolutely in large part their own doing.
Does anybody but Harry care about Harry? He probably should concern himself more with the image he is projecting about himself to the world, IMO. A grown man acting overwrought and overly emotional about things like he does is not considered normal for a male.
Would you say the Patent Office is being an Indian giver?
I SPECIFICALLY responded to your comment:Which would be wonderful if I was suggesting that NO native americans or native americans organizations were opposed to the name. There are absolutely some.
I just did, the list of tribes, Indian groups and individuals opposed and demanding a name change IS by definition "made up of parts from various sources or of various kinds" of tribes/IndiansI've asked for evidence that "native americans" as a conglomerate group find it offensive, or evidence showing the amount/percentage of the native american population that have issue with it.
It does not change....the belief of native americans that the name should be changed?Many of those groups were outwardly opposed to the name back in 2004 too. So that doesn't really change things.
I SPECIFICALLY responded to your comment:
"I say your factual evidence as to the names offense or the belief of native americans that it should be changed to be nonexistent."
You claimed the evidence for its change among NA to be "nonexistant", I showed it does in fact EXIST.
I just did, the list of tribes, Indian groups and individuals opposed and demanding a name change IS by definition "made up of parts from various sources or of various kinds" of tribes/Indians
It does not change....the belief of native americans that the name should be changed?
Really?
What sort of pedantic gymnastics await?
Correct. Somethings is derogatory if it's being disrespectful or critical in attitude towards something.
First, one of the primary reasons why racial slurs are used—so that dominant racial groups can sustain social inequality—has not been fully explored in the study of racial slurs. Existing research has uncovered important insights, ranging from how slurs can be used to threaten another group’s identity (Boeckmann and Liew 2002, Leets 2001) to how the linguistic complexity of slurs determines their impact on victims (Leader et al. 2009, Mullen and Rice 2003). However, less is known about how group members’ desire for social inequality can drive the prevalence of racial slurs. Given that most organizational settings are predicated on meritocracy, it is important to understand how the use of racial slurs can contribute to the exclusion and subjugation of certain social groups by other social groups.
Racial slurs comprise a subset of interpersonal aggression that is targeted at racial groups (or individuals who are members of racial groups) to inflict personal or psychological harm, such as damaging their character or injuring their reputation. Accordingly, in our conceptual framework, we consider racial slurs to have three defining characteristics—they are serious, overt, and discriminatory.
The content and the linguistic terms that characterize racial slurs are in themselves discriminatory (Graumann 1998). There is a straightforward comprehension that the remark is meant to send a denigrating message to a target because of the target’s racial heritage and to distinguish the targets from other racial groups. Racial slurs place targets into inferior out groups and aggressors into superior in-groups (Allport 1954). The discriminatory nature of racial slurs can be distinguished from most other acts of serious interpersonal aggression that are not inherently discriminatory, including stealing from coworkers, endangering coworkers with reckless behaviors, and behaving in a physically aggressive manner (Robinson and Bennett 1995).
It doesn't matter how offensive "redskin" is, nor how many people are pissed off about it, the patent office doesn't have the authority to regulate free speech.
The appeals process will keep this sucker tied up for decades.
Yeah, the name is not going to change. It'll blow over in a month or two, maybe less.
It doesn't matter how offensive "redskin" is, nor how many people are pissed off about it, the patent office doesn't have the authority to regulate free speech.
No, the sensitive people will continue to melt down about it. The other NFL owners will get pissed because merchandise is pooled and the revenue shared, and they won't want to take a hit. Harry Reid will carry on on the Senate floor again soon enough. One of the Redskin cheerleaders will hire Gloria Allred to represent her. It will re-emerge.
They're Americans, just like we are. They should pay taxes, just like we do.