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To: Pyro7480
Well, while I personally find the term "redskin" as offensive as if someone called blacks "BlackSkins", or asians "YellowSkins", I never could see the point of making a federal case out of it...
12 posted on 10/01/2003 10:23:59 AM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (<Tag>Something unspeakably clever</Tag>)
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To: Chad Fairbanks
Well, while I personally find the term "redskin" as offensive as if someone called blacks "BlackSkins"...

But, you see, that would never happen. People know better than to say things like that. For some reason, many people seem oblivious to ethnic slurs when it comes to American Indians. They don't even seem to be aware of what they're saying. I see it all the time on FreeRepublic, and it drives me crazy.

39 posted on 10/01/2003 10:51:51 AM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (I'm not perfect, but parts of me are excellent.)
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To: Chad Fairbanks
blacks "BlackSkins", or asians "YellowSkins",

Actually the politically correct term for them is "peoples of color." That's offensive to me. I have color in my skin. I shoul dsue the govt. for every document with that phrase in it.

43 posted on 10/01/2003 10:54:56 AM PDT by 69ConvertibleFirebird (Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
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To: Chad Fairbanks
So I should be upset if somebody calls me a white guy? Not meaning to disparage, but methinks this is far less than a tempest in a teapot! What an insignificant thing to be upset about - LOL!

If someone is black, white, red, yellow or brown (the five anthropologically defined "race" groupings), aren't they black, white, red, yellow or brown? What would they like to be called, if not black, white, red, yellow or brown?

Maybe lifestyle should be the identifying factor, so we can say socialist liberal pondscum, or faggot, or racist, or criminal, or (worse yet) politician, or WHAT????

Perhaps the underlying political correctness, PC being an abomination in its own right, is the real problem. It's the same dufus idiocy which prevents profiling when profiling is so obviously applicable (let's see, should I search the little old 80 y-o white grandmother or the male of mideastern decent between 17 and 40 years of age?).

Hmmmmm!

48 posted on 10/01/2003 11:01:56 AM PDT by mil-vet
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