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Washington Post says Redskins’ name should ‘no longer be tolerated,’ keeps using it
Twitchy ^ | 9/13/2013 | Brett Taylor

Posted on 09/13/2013 2:55:10 PM PDT by markomalley

President Obama himself has yet to “evolve” on the issue, but Slate’s decision to not use the R-word to refer to Washington’s NFL team has in the space of a month trickled up to the Washington Post, which has declared that the name should no longer be tolerated.

Editorial board: The team's name is a racial slur that should no longer be tolerated wapo.st/17wRGeD
Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 13, 2013

We’re not sure if there are any Native Americans on the Washington Post’s editorial board, but it published a piece today declaring that “the team’s name — no matter its storied tradition or importance to many fans — is a racial slur of Native Americans so offensive that it should no longer be tolerated. Imagine, as we wrote in 2006 advocating a name change, Mr. Snyder, or anyone else for that matter, sitting in a room with Native Americans and calling them ‘redskins.’ Not likely.”

The Post did acknowledge that the name is a racial slur in a 2006 editorial, and yet that didn’t stop the paper from printing it a few thousands times since then. To its credit, Slate (which rarely covers sports) settled on ________ as a workaround, while the Post is apparently waiting for the team’s owners to make the decision for them.

Twitter kindly provided plenty of alternative names for the team (like the Washington Lame Ducks). Will the Post insist on one as a condition of covering the team? Do people care?

@washingtonpost I'm often critical of WaPo ed board, but they're spot on here.—
Col. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) September 13, 2013

Momentum RT@washingtonpost: Editorial board: The team's name is a racial slur that should no longer be tolerated wapo.st/17wRGeD
Peter Ogburn (@peterogburn) September 13, 2013

Thank you for supporting the Native American Community by calling on Dan Snyder to change the team name 'Redskins' @washingtonpost #lakota
Tyrell Pierce (@tetonlakota) September 13, 2013

A protest is expected at this weekend’s game in Green Bay.

Members of the @OneidaNation tribe plan to protest the @Redskins at Lambeau Field this weekend wapo.st/17w6av2
Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 13, 2013



TOPICS: Politics; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: mascot; nfl; redskins
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To: Hoodat
The meat packers are a noble union. They'd probably have better luck with the Browns.

-PJ

21 posted on 09/13/2013 4:14:35 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: markomalley

I have long recommended that they be renamed to “the Dead Skins.”


22 posted on 09/13/2013 4:29:32 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: zot; Interesting Times

skin time weight in. What about the CommieSkins?


23 posted on 09/13/2013 4:30:42 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Political Junkie Too

I believe that the DC radio station that covers the Redskins’ games calls them only the “Skins.” It’s been that way for a few years now.

I live in the DC area, but I not a native. I’m not a big fan of Dan Snyder or the Redskins. But I applaud Snyder’s refusal to knuckle under (so far) to this pressure to change the team’s name. These people need to get a life. They’re not happy unless they’re ruining somebody else’s.


24 posted on 09/13/2013 4:31:23 PM PDT by huckfillary
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To: huckfillary
I believe that the DC radio station that covers the Redskins’ games calls them only the “Skins.”

That's because radio sports announcers are always trying to "out-cute" each other, primarily through abbreviating names and terms.

'Skins = Washington Redskins
"A's" = Oakland Athletics
D-backs = Arizona Diamondbacks
K's = Strikeouts

I can understand the use of RBI instead of Runs Batted In, but "K" for Strikeouts? Come on!

Back to the Washington Redskins and the need to get rid of the "R-word", just change it to the Washington RedNECKS!

Hang, we don't mind being called the "R-word". Especially if we can get a percentage of the royalties & license fees!

25 posted on 09/13/2013 4:58:06 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("Life is short. It's even shorter if you suggest going out for pizza on your anniversary" Peter Egan)
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To: BwanaNdege

Or, with all the many NFL players now sporting dreadlocks, maybe the R-word could be changed to:

Washington Reggaes

or

Washington Rastafarians

/s


26 posted on 09/13/2013 5:01:12 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("Life is short. It's even shorter if you suggest going out for pizza on your anniversary" Peter Egan)
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To: BwanaNdege

Forget all of the above.

The new “R-word” and team name is:

The Washington RGIIIs!

Only problem is that he is modest and probably insist on it being seen as a team

...a team

...our team

R-team...

yeah, that’ll work.

The Washington R-team! (insert your own favorite meaning for “R”)


27 posted on 09/13/2013 5:05:23 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("Life is short. It's even shorter if you suggest going out for pizza on your anniversary" Peter Egan)
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To: GreyFriar

Cancel the Compost. Keep the Redskins.


28 posted on 09/13/2013 6:10:15 PM PDT by zot
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To: Hoodat
I’m waiting for homosexuals to protest the name of the Green Bay NFL team.

Won't happen - it turns them on - thank the stars that Wisconsin isn't into the fudge-making business..

29 posted on 09/14/2013 4:42:21 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: zot

I canceled the ComPost almost 20 years ago.


30 posted on 09/14/2013 5:40:14 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: zot; markomalley; huckfillary

Bear down CHICAGO BEARS!!!


31 posted on 09/14/2013 5:48:19 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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