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Prostitution, murder, and incest?
Is that a rhetorical question?
Prostitution, murder, and incest?
They'll agree that the people that thought calling a team the Redskins was perfectly fine... not to mention that your entire argument here is a Straw Man.
It's a metaphor for pointing out the changing standards. 30-40 years ago slurs were common: Gook, Chink, Spic, Kike, Jap...the whole nine yards, few people hesitated using them in 1975. Nowadays those words jump right out of the page at you.
Times change. Common sense suggests that the team in our nation's capital follows suit. It seems rather silly to defend their use of what many perceive is a racial slur. And, I don't even care.
Is that a rhetorical question?
Common sense
many perceive is a racial slur
Yes. :lol:
How many times have you called a Native American a "redskin" as a means of insulting them? How many times have you heard the term used outside of the team we all know and hate (at least we Giants fans hate them!)?
50 years ago white people all over the South, without batting any eye, walked past countless drinking fountains, lunch counters, department stores, and hospitals which were denied to blacks. They sat at the front of the bus thinking nothing was odd when all the blacks were shuffled to the rear. A hundred years before then most of them thought enslaving blacks was fine too.
Well, today a bunch of whites watch football thinking nothing is wrong with calling a team "Redskins". What will people say about that 50 years from now? 150?
Someone needs to buy a "t", an apostrophe, an "r" and an "e", Pat.
Nonsense. But you go right on believing it.
How many "redskins" do you actually run into, and then feel compelled to call a "redskin".
I'll tell you what. I run into real Indians all the time and I would love to call them derogatory names. :lol:
Favorite kinds to answer or just favorite kinds?
Prostitution, murder, and incest?
Oh I see them a lot. My husband & I go with our friends to their casinos as often as we can (Mohegan Sun & Foxwoods). They're all over those places. They love taking our money.
Nobody really cares about this issue... that is why I am right. The things you mentioned were actually a big deal and more importantly, UNCONSTITUTIONAL!
I'd change the name of the team to Whiteskins.
:lamo
Many? How many and who? Are there numbers?
(I believe there was research/polling done on this with Native Americans years ago, and they found 9 out of 10 didn't care about the use of the term)
Pretty much... and I would toss in rape, land theft and genocide to make it work even better.
What is unconstitutional?
And slavery. Lots of that went on for the last few thousand years too. In fact, like all of the others, it's still going on.
I believe you're wrong about that, and I also believe that it doesn't matter.
I believe you're wrong about that, and I also believe that it doesn't matter.
And you shout, "you damn redskin heathens!" too, huh?