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Why the Left's Preoccupation with the Redskins?
Townhall ^ | 7/2/14 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 07/02/2014 8:38:11 AM PDT by rhema

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1 posted on 07/02/2014 8:38:11 AM PDT by rhema
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The left gloms onto trivia. The left have decided that Indians should be offended by the Redskins name. So, they are taking up the cause of cleansing America of Indian nicknames.

Irony is that many of these liberals aren’t even football fans or follow sports at all. But they are busy bodies who will tell the rest of us how to live.

Reminds me a bit of the reaction to the Obama rodeo clown at the rodeo. The liberals who were agahst at that know nothing about the rodeo, and do not follow rodeo. Yet they knew all about how allegedly disrespectful it was to have an Obama masked rodeo clown.


2 posted on 07/02/2014 8:41:04 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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If I were a Redskin, I’d be offended that they use the name Washington.


3 posted on 07/02/2014 8:41:12 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: rhema
“For about 80 of those years, virtually no one, including the vast majority of American Indians, was troubled by the name”

In truth, no one is troubled by the name today.

A few leftists with an agenda dishonestly claim to be offended. They have the backing of the Democrat Party and the Obama Administration.

4 posted on 07/02/2014 8:42:20 AM PDT by detective
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Because accusations of racism, true or false, is a powerful tool and they can't keep themselves from using it.

5 posted on 07/02/2014 8:44:46 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: rhema

Anything to distract attention away from Obama’s scandals and failures.

Democrats just throw poop against the wall to see what sticks.


6 posted on 07/02/2014 8:45:21 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The Obamas Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
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They don’t really care about the name, it’s merely a way to give themselves another front from which to fight their war on America.


7 posted on 07/02/2014 8:45:48 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'd rather be a living "gun culture" member than a dead anti-gun candy-ass.)
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To: rhema

I’m wondering if maybe theres a simpler reason. Maybe the owner of Redskin got some left wingers angry (maybe something was said, donated to wrong ppl, refused to donate), so they manufactured some reason to get revenge


8 posted on 07/02/2014 8:47:56 AM PDT by 4rcane
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To: rhema

Distraction story.


9 posted on 07/02/2014 8:48:54 AM PDT by YourAdHere (I flip off all Obama bumper stickers.)
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A one word answer; DISTRACTION
The 'outrage' over the Washington Redskins use of the word redskin in their name is pretty much the same as when they start screaming.”Look over there, a Confederate Flag.” A Distraction. Always remember, Keep you eye on the pea.
10 posted on 07/02/2014 8:49:33 AM PDT by Tupelo
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You stole my joke. : )


11 posted on 07/02/2014 8:49:36 AM PDT by YourAdHere (I flip off all Obama bumper stickers.)
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To: rhema

It is the Democrat way. ALWAYS complain and carp about EVERYTHING! They need to have free enterprise and capitalism always on the defense while they are out there murdering tens of thousand of unborn babies each year.


12 posted on 07/02/2014 8:51:15 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: rhema; Liz; sickoflibs; null and void; MrB; LucyT; left that other site; SandRat; Old Sarge
Second, the corollary to the above is that those who do not fight the greatest evils invariably loathe those who do. The left hated American anti-communists much more than it hated communists. The left today hates traditional America much more than it hates traditional Islamists. The Redskins name is a symbol of that hated America.

There's times Dennis Prager can think so far outside the box - and with such insight that it's spooky... This article - all of it - is one of those times.

13 posted on 07/02/2014 8:56:06 AM PDT by GOPJ (Why no outrage over IRS targeting? Same reason Pravda didn't make a stink about gulags.FREnterprise)
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To: 4rcane

Me, too. Like someone in the patent office getting a healthy kickback from sale of redskins ripped off logo. It’s always about money in the end.


14 posted on 07/02/2014 9:00:21 AM PDT by Red Boots
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“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?… Has it ever occurred to your, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?…The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.” - Syme

“It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself—anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face… was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime…”


15 posted on 07/02/2014 9:03:44 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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Yes. I love that man.


16 posted on 07/02/2014 9:11:05 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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If I were a Redskin, I’d be offended that they use the name Washington.

DING! DING! DING! We have a winner!!!

17 posted on 07/02/2014 9:15:05 AM PDT by llevrok (Straight. Since 1950.)
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simply something to take EVERYONES mind off obammy’s screwing America.
Nothing to see now move along. You want an audit?
Maybe a re-edumacation camp?


18 posted on 07/02/2014 9:26:59 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) obammy lied and lied and lied)
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To: rhema

The Left hates particularities, because the Left is collectivist. Hatred of particularities means that natural categories are to be abolished, which is most easily accomplished through the manufactured narrative that they’re hateful.


19 posted on 07/02/2014 9:27:23 AM PDT by Romulus
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I’ve actually lived in Communist countries. Above all, Leftists feel politics and government are always greater than society, so politics and government should always be in control of issues that should be left to society.

The “constant struggle” is a key component of far left politics. The constant beat of the drum on race, supposed inequality, sex, etc... is a tactic for controlling debate and keeping (their) politics always at the forefront of the public’s eye.


20 posted on 07/02/2014 9:27:29 AM PDT by PGR88
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