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Army’s Apache under assault: PC police call helicopter’s name racist

Goshin said:
You GOT to be kidding me.


It's called Apache because it is BADASS, like Apaches. Badass isn't insulting, unless you're some kinda wuss.



Ye gawd, this PC crap has gone insane...
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We should just call them "Tribbles", and the worst that would happen is we piss off a few trekkies. ;)


Tim-
 
We need to remove ALL reference to Native Americans from all aspects of American culture. Forge them, let them fade, ignore their history, might offend.
 
grip said:
Should we change the Militaries use of Native American tribal names?
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That must mean the '50 truck Apache is racist too.

We must invent a time machine to go back and make sure that name is never used.

More than likely the owners of those trucks will have to cover the names on the side of the truck or Ebay will refuse to advertise the truck because of the racist name.

Where will this stop?
 
Hicup said:
We should just call them "Tribbles", and the worst that would happen is we piss off a few trekkies. ;)


Tim-
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reality is, you'd probably have more Trekkies that would be pissed than actual Indians pissed at this.
 
Mason66 said:
That must mean the '50 truck Apache is racist too.

We must invent a time machine to go back and make sure that name is never used.

More than likely the owners of those trucks will have to cover the names on the side of the truck or Ebay will refuse to advertise the truck because of the racist name.

Where will this stop?
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that's the point. It WONT stop. The person bringing the suit against the Redskins franchise has made it clear. Her intent is to target ANYONE that uses a name related to Indians. To her it only matters if SHE haz a sad.
 
MrVicchio said:
We need to remove ALL reference to Native Americans from all aspects of American culture. Forge them, let them fade, ignore their history, might offend.
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For their own good of course. Out of respect.
 
VanceMack said:
that's the point. It WONT stop. The person bringing the suit against the Redskins franchise has made it clear. Her intent is to target ANYONE that uses a name related to Indians. To her it only matters if SHE haz a sad.
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People definitely have too much time on their hands.

That is the danger of having life too easy.
 
Indians should be proud of one of their tribe's names on the helicopter. Those aircraft are the definition of badazz.

An old Chevy truck should just be left to rust and a slur for the name of the worst football team in the NFC East should be changed to the Washington congressmen.
 
Soupnazi630 said:
Well one reason is that aside from being names of fierce warrior cultures the names also honor former enemies which the US Army fought against.

These tribes often put up very violent resistance and although they ultimately lost the US army did not always have a lot of fun fighting them.

Seems how the US Army is the only Army I know of to honor a former enemy this way.

Somehow I just cannot see a british army helicoprter being named the Zulu or the Continental.
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As a trivia side note, the British tribal class destroyers were not only powerful fleet destroyers, but many were named after former enemies including: HMS Zulu, HMS Pathan, HMS Cossack, HMS Somali, HMS Afridi etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribal-class_destroyer_(1936)
 
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Mason66 said:
That must mean the '50 truck Apache is racist too.

We must invent a time machine to go back and make sure that name is never used.

More than likely the owners of those trucks will have to cover the names on the side of the truck or Ebay will refuse to advertise the truck because of the racist name.

Where will this stop?
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And if we have to change the Jeep Cherokee and Comanche names. Then all the towns and streets in the Mid West, Michigan, North East and Florida areas with Indian names. It doesn't end that's the point.
 
I think the most depressingly ironic part of calling an army helicopter after a Native American group is that the US Army played a decisive role in pushing them into reservations and slaughtering many of them. Now they've white washed history to claim it's all about how "badass" these bands were and how we're "honoring" them by naming helicopters after their groups. The reality however is that if they were such badasses most of them wouldn't have spent the last 200 years demanding for their land to be returned and for recognition of the fact that their cultures were nearly destroyed.

It's almost as if people didn't understand just why an institution which took a role in this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bad_Axe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Island_Massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ash_Hollow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_River_Massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyesville_Massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Creek_Massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mud_Lake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marias_Massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Big_Hole

May not be seen as the best group to be "honoring" the fighting spirit of Native Americans.
 
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Hatuey said:
I think the most depressingly ironic part of calling an army helicopter after a Native American group is that the US Army played a decisive role in pushing them into reservations and slaughtering many of them. Now they've white washed history to claim it's all about how "badass" these bands were and how we're "honoring" them by naming helicopters after their groups. The reality however is that if they were such badasses most of them wouldn't have spent the last 200 years demanding for their land to be returned and for recognition of the fact that their cultures were nearly destroyed.

It's almost as if people didn't understand just why an institution which took a role in this:

Wounded Knee Massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Battle of Bad Axe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bloody Island Massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Battle of Ash Hollow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bear River Massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Keyesville Massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sand Creek massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Battle of Mud Lake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marias Massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Battle of the Big Hole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

May not be seen as the best group to be "honoring" the fighting spirit of Native Americans.
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Great point! God's gift of manifest destiny.
 
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