Washington Redskins must change their offensive Name...

skeptikal1
Looks like you are typical politically correct modern American - spending your energy being affronted about trivia and being manipulated by the mass media while the U.S. collapses around you. This could only happen in a bored and overly fed country- congratulations-you are truly a deep thinker!

Your ignorance of the OP sustains me......mmmmmmm.....tasty ignorance and butter for my popcorn.

skeptikal1
Looks like you are typical politically correct modern American - spending your energy being affronted about trivia and being manipulated by the mass media while the U.S. collapses around you. This could only happen in a bored and overly fed country- congratulations-you are truly a deep thinker!

Now go back and read all six sentences.

You just ignored 8 pages of discussion.

So, please don't call people names.

Impetuous much?

noonebutme
reply to post by whyamIhere

 

So what if you're offended? Well boo-f-ing-hoo.

What does that mean? Nothing. Who cares? No one has stopped you from breathing, living your life. No one has physically assaulted you. You simply "feel" offended.

I find many things offensive - doesn't mean everyone else does or the world has to pander to my wishes.

Why do people make such a big deal about being "offended"?

Num num num.../smacks lips Num num num.. your lack of reading the OP OFFENDS ME!!!! num num num....and makes my popcorn salty (which,incidentally, tastes like the tears of a clown)

reply to post by whyamIhere
Well, since you sparked this discussion...have you actually ventured an opinion on the issue at hand? I suppose I could scan the last 10 pages, but it's easier to ask you directly.

JohnnyCanuck
reply to post by whyamIhere

 

Well, since you sparked this discussion...have you actually ventured an opinion on the issue at hand? I suppose I could scan the last 10 pages, but it's easier to ask you directly.

This is a tough call.

Private Team in a Private League.

I really don't know how Native's feel about it.

I guess if it was really hurtful to Native's.

I would hope the owner would consider changing it.

whyamIhere

JohnnyCanuck
reply to post by whyamIhere

 

Well, since you sparked this discussion...have you actually ventured an opinion on the issue at hand? I suppose I could scan the last 10 pages, but it's easier to ask you directly.

This is a tough call.
Private Team in a Private League.
I really don't know how Native's feel about it.
I guess if it was really hurtful to Native's.
I would hope the owner would consider changing it.

Good answer (which is to say I agree). Thanks.

reply to post by JohnnyCanuck


Considering all native Americans I have heard speak about this said it's a non issue, maybe us pale-faces should take our guilt and use it more constructively.

fenson76
reply to post by JohnnyCanuck

 

Considering all native Americans I have heard speak about this said it's a non issue, maybe us pale-faces should take our guilt and use it more constructively.

I don't work off of guilt. I work off of contact with the First Nations community on a regular basis, and actually asking...as a dumb white guy...how they prefer to self-identify. I also understand the concept of them having had their cultures suppressed and handed back to them as stereotypical caricatures.

And in taking back their cultures and rebuilding their traditions...that's the first thing that has to go. Their call...not mine. Or yours, I might add.

reply to post by JohnnyCanuck


Here's a homegrown adjunct to the discussion that I saw reference to while reading a Washington Post article (bless the internet, eh?) about our very own Jian Ghomeshi. The reference...

The Nepean Redskins football club has revealed plans to drop its controversial moniker, and will formally retire the team's name on Friday. According to The Ottawa Citizen, Ian Campeau of A Tribe Called Red, who filed a human rights complaint against the team, has offered to perform a fundraising concert to help with the costs of change. Q essay: retire the 'Redskins' moniker

The essay is available to listen to on that site.

reply to post by whyamIhere


Why would you complain about the name, and then say "Hail the Redskins" there at the end?
It kind of defeats the purpose of your whole thing when you use the word that you are trying to say is offensive, don't you think? I don't care either way. I'm a Raiders fan.

reply to post by loveXlight


Try re reading the OP again because it seems you didn't grasp the point.

Grimpachi
reply to post by loveXlight

 

Try re reading the OP again because it seems you didn't grasp the point.

Not only did he miss the point...

He skipped 10 pages of discussion about it.

its a little something i like to call "get over it". Youre offended? Now youve offended me so consider this matter even.

reply to post by whyamIhere


Simply amazing isn't it. This thread keeps me laughing.

It's classic.

holton0289
its a little something i like to call "get over it". Youre offended? Now youve offended me so consider this matter even.

So...on what basis are you offended?

holton0289
its a little something i like to call "get over it". Youre offended? Now youve offended me so consider this matter even.

"Get over it"....

It was only six sentences. Please read the OP again.

Does your knee hurt....You sure jerked it hard.

Every time this thread pops up I have to catch up. A true classic in a very simple way.

I feel like I need a " I'm with stupid" shirt

mikell
Every time this thread pops up I have to catch up. A true classic in a very simple way.

I feel like I need a " I'm with stupid" shirt

edit on 23-10-2013 by mikell because: (no reason given)

After they get all worked up and tell I'm too ignorant to share their planet.

Then they go back and read the OP............Crickets..........

whyamIhere
That's right it is downright disgraceful they continue to use the name.

The name stands for everything bad about America.

I personally get offended ever single time I hear their name.

I almost get sick. I taste throw-up in my mouth just thinking about it.

Please change the name. I can't take it. It's beyond disrespectful.

You must drop that no good word "Washington" from your name.

Hail to the Redskins...

Ha, yeah. I guess I feel pretty stupid after re-reading it.
How did I miss that the first time?

reply to post by loveXlight


Don't sweat it...

Lots of people fell for it.