Posted on 06/27/2014 6:32:50 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
Veterans arent 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 NFLs 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 isnt American Indians who are offended. It is guilt-ridden white liberals being offended on their behalf. Hows that for paternalism?
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Therefore, so is North DAKOTA, and South DAKOTA, and OHIO, and Kansas and Arkansas, and probably 25% of city and town and state names in the entire nation.
I truly don’t think I can take much more of this nonsense.
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We need to go after Waxman first, because his name is offensive to car wax, floor wax, surfboard wax and candle wax, not to speak of bikini wax. Second the last part of his name is “man” which should immediately be offensive to any real man, girlie man, wo(man), he-man, hey man, man caves, man-nipulators, and on and on and on.
Why don’t we just turn this PC crap around and shove it back in the face of those that are pushing it? It has gotten so ludicrous, it’s hard no to laugh at how far these people stretch credibility to try and justify their prejudices.
My favorite response to the political correctness junkies, is that it doesn’t apply to me because I am not in politics. Go harass your own kind.
I agree with Norm in post 11. Now that you tried to do the right thing, and use reason and logic, next time, just ask her if she knows where the sun don't shine?
It's not. It was saved.
Let me temper my last post with: it has a better chance of being saved, now. It’s future is more certain than it was.
Well then, let me be the first to welcome you into our tribe! Your official tribe name is “Mighty Warrior Of The Glistening Glade Who Flew In The Rusty Sky Bird And Who Runs Like The Deer And Has The Courage Of The Mountain Lion And The Wisdom Of The Muskrat” or “Bud”, for short.
As a tribal member, you’re entitled to a 25% discount on insurance from AARP (Association of American Rum Drinkers). Yeah, I don’t know how you come up with a “P” for “Drinkers”, either. They tell me it’s a tribal secret.
Our tribe has a long and glorious history. We know this because the prisons keep such good records. Our tribal headdress is three chicken feathers and an extra crispy drumstick. We used to wear loincloths, but we were in Chicago one time and the wind kept blowing up our loincloths and all the women in Chicago started following us around.
And so I close with our tribe’s traditional farewell.
“Who’s buying the next round?”
Have the Kiowa Warriors been scrapped?
As a true Redskin, I am OFFENDED that they want to change the name of the team.
It has always been my understanding that one names their team for something they ADMIRE. Warriors, Tigers, Braves, etc, all indicate prowess and might.
Herewith are some unlikely names for teams that would never be chosen because they are things people DONT admire:
The Washington Whiners
The Boston Bed-Wetters
The Philadelphia Flops
The Atlanta Asses
The Texas Tax-Collectors
The Pittsburgh Pilferers
The Detroit Deadbeats
The LA Lapdogs
The Bangor Boot-Lickers
The San Francisco Snitches
The Milwaukee Milquetoasts
So, ergo, redskins are GOOD, otherwise why would anyone name a team after them?
As for the helicopters, I LOVE those names! I am just OFFENDED that they have never named one after MY Tribe, the Mic Miac. Since I am also part Irish, and a gun-toting right wing wacko, we could call the next helicopter Gunship the “Mic Mac Paddy Whack” in MY honor!
Oh yes...
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Thank you for your service! I believe that there is a special place in heaven for Corpsmen/ Medics.
Hope you’re right.
Why on Earth we’d consider getting rid of these is beyond me.
You can have the fancy Mach ?? time machines. They certainly have their place - and I’m awed by the speed and technology - otoh:
I’ll take the low, slow, chaperone to the gates of hell any day.
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