Posted on 06/27/2014 6:32:50 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
Veterans aren’t happy with a recent op-ed by the Washington Post, which charged that the Apache, Comanche, Chinook, Lakota, Cheyenne and Kiowa military vehicles were a “greater symbolic injustice” than the NFL’s Washington Redskins’ name. “Even if the NFL and Redskins brass come to their senses and rename the team, a greater symbolic injustice would continue to afflict Indians — an injustice perpetuated not by a football club but by our federal government,” Simon Waxman of the Boston Review wrote for the Post on Thursday.
He added that the helicopter names were “propaganda” that needed to end, because Native American life expectancy statistics indicate the “violence is ongoing, even if the guns are silent.” Readers at the popular military news gathering website Doctrine Man reacted Friday. “I suspect that the author is less unhappy that our choppers have Indian names, and more unhappy that there is a U.S. military,” wrote Alex Kuhns. Kevin Schooler wrote: “What floors me is that for the most part, it isn’t American Indians who are offended. It is guilt-ridden white liberals being offended on their behalf. How’s that for paternalism?”
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I suggest a couple of new names:
Raging Queen
Vicious Beeeatch
I’m sure these names would be passable.
Too bad the A-10 is going to be retired. The term ‘Hog Driver’ would be celebrated.
All kidding aside, I do not understand why people ALLOW liberals to spout crap like in this article. Politeness?
We are talking about people that think killing babies is a holy sacrament. People that think the right of a man to pack another man’s fudge trumps the right of another man to bake a cake or pray. People that want soldiers to stand and be shot at so as not to offend the shooter and think your personal income belongs to the local crackhead.
As soon as we give them the same respect they earn, life gets better. And yes actually I do deal with liberals in real life that way. Which is why I don’t get out much. ;)
Powderpuff, teddybear, Tinkerbell, Boo Boo, & binkie.
Obama: If attacked, we will rain down on the enemy hundreds of Tinkerbells, Boo Boos & binkies.
Special forces can be called smurfs.
Attack helos can be called Mr. Rogers Neighborhood Conflict Calmers.
> You just don’t know how to talk to liberals. Here allow me to give you one that always works..
“STFU”
Guaranteed to end the immediate conversation with a lib and make them go away complaining.
Why are we even considering this stupidity when there are much more important things to take care of? So stop giving a damn what liberals think. Just grab their underwear, yank it, and give them a wedgie. Embrace the bully inside and tell them to grow some balls and grow up to be real men, not those effiminate butt pirates...: )
Exactly ;)
I think I flew in that one in Nam.
Are whites ever going to tell them all to GFT?
I always thought Chinook meant a dry hot wind that melted snow in a heartbeat. Didn’t know it was a tribe.
In Vietnam when a CH-47 came to a hover over our firebase, it “dusted us off” with a dry hot wind you could hardly stand up in.
Anyway, this Indian names PC is pure garbage. Indian names of military assets celebrate the courage of the warrior and his ability to be “the finest light cavalry in the world”.
Eat the facts, you PC WaPo nerd.
As a half-breed (Cherokee), I am not the least offended, and I know my deceased dad was not offended either. These white liberals want to find the weakest, most pathetic thing and name that after us?
This makes me so mad I can’t say anything else on this issue on this forum.
Maybe they’d prefer the A-10 Fudgepacker and similar.
I am deeply offended by the Ford Thunderbird.
How about “Blueeyed Skydeath”. or “Whitey’s Skydeath”, or the “Anglo Arrow”?
Don’t forget the proper name designation for the Bell UH-1... what everyone calls a “Huey”, is really an Iroquois.
I am all for renaming the B-52s from Stratofortress to Rock Lobster.
Not nearly as offended as I am about San Francisco. It insults hispanics and forces christianity on people while offending christian hispanics with homosexuality.
Day by day it becomes clearer that Orwell was indeed a propher.
Why defend your position? Does it matter? Will anything good be a result? Frankly, that type of person doesn't deserve to be engaged in intellectual conversation. Engaging her in sexual congress is about the most you can hope for. Expect an STD, however.
Active Duty ping.
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