wake20
Well-known member
The Redskins name is an easy fix. Solving long-standing social issues is not.
well there's your problem right there.
I don't understand why the Skins have taken nearly 100% of the PC crowd's ire on this issue. You say you want the chop gone but you are not near as vocal about it.
it just baffles me how in 2013 people can think the name and term "Redskins" is ok. so if they wanted to call the team the "Blackskins" or "Darkies" and people decried it, would jhmd just point to the problems in the black community and say that's more important?
it just baffles me how in 2013 people can think the name and term "Redskins" is ok. so if they wanted to call the team the "Blackskins" or "Darkies" and people decried it, would jhmd just point to the problems in the black community and say that's more important?
Are the people who want to focus on actual problems really getting the "just" treatment on this issue?
How about people who "just" want to throw a fit about a name, at the expense of talking about the actual problems?
To answer your question, I absolutely would choose to focus on real problems that might actually help someone, versus highly selective outrage that will solve precisely zero problems. Every. Single. Time.
Who is defending the name (as you incorrectly characterize)? Do you see that post on here, or do you see people questioning a hierarchy of problems that seems to take great comfort in putting this one at the top? There is a difference.
But don't let me interrupt your handiwork on those decks chairs; they look fantastic. We'll get to the iceberg kerfluffle soon enough...
Of course he would.
Wouldn't you? After taking a continent from someone and then rounding them up and putting them in inhumane, squalor conditions inside infertile lands, you'd take comfort in making it up to them by renaming a football team?
Actually the more I think about it, of course you would.
Wouldn't you? After taking a continent from someone and then rounding them up and putting them in inhumane, squalor conditions inside infertile lands, you'd take comfort in making it up to them by renaming a football team?
Actually the more I think about it, of course you would.
Wouldn't you? After taking a continent from someone and then rounding them up and putting them in inhumane, squalor conditions inside infertile lands, you'd take comfort in making it up to them by renaming a football team?
Actually the more I think about it, of course you would, because that would make YOU feel better. Why stop now?
Because obviously everyone is saying that the "Redskins" name is the ONLY problem facing Native Americans and that changing it would fix all of their problems. Yup. That's definitely what we're saying
Show me the opeds on those problems from the last 90 days? Where are they?
The Redskins name is an easy fix. Solving long-standing social issues is not.
This isn't about making something up to people. It is about recognizing that the widespread use of a racial slur is harmful, and cutting it off now.
The easy change is to not change just to be PC. It is best Washington Redskins. Everybody needs to quit being offended. Everybody needs to quit changing something just because 2 people get "offended". This stuff is just like schools getting rid of Halloween or Christmas. The majority want it be a few don't so they listen to the few instead of the majority.
I will agree wholeheartedly with the first sentence. As to the second, I'll continue to wonder why the people that are targeted by this slur aren't out in front of the charge (and pay careful note to those that say they not only are not offended by it, but embrace the term proudly, and don't want it taken away).
It doesn't actually bother me to change the name. I find the insistence to change it by people who have no stake in the matter---over the objection of people who don't know that they are supposed to be offended by it---odd-to-the-point-of-insincere. I think the best evidence of that is that we agree on the first sentence of your post: what actual problem does this solve? Can we start with that?
If they were the Washington Niggers, would you find that offensive as a white guy?