Whether you like it or not.
...and this has NOTHING to do with me living in Seattle....(which is an Indian name and I will post an additional Taranto item below)
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110007802
What's Black and White and Red All Over?
Yesterday we noted that the Seattle Times was limiting references to the Washington Redskins in news articles about this weekend's playoff game between the You Know What Skins and the Seattle Seahawks. It seems that the District of Columbia team's name is offensive to the descendants of people whose ancestors lived in America before Columbus discovered it.
If the Seattle Times is serious about this policy, though, it will also have to stop using the first word in the Seattle Seahawks' name. True, it's a reference to the city, but the city is named after Chief Seattle, who was what, in less enlightened Times, was known as an Indian.
Come to think of it, the Seattle Times will have to stop using its own name for the same reason. But what name would be better? Just the Times is too confusing, since there are Timeses in New York, London and a few other places. Washington Times is taken, too.
Here's an idea: How about using an anagram? From now on, the Seattle Times will be known as Let's Eat Mites! OK, it's not exactly elegant, but it beats Talentless Piglet Erection.
BUMP
The Redskins should respond: no interview of Redskins players.
I've never liked the name "Redskins" - it just sounds bad you know?
I've heard of people wanting to get rid of names like "Indians" and "Chiefs" supposedly due to it's insulting nature. Thing is, if these names weren't featured these people would be just as mad (trying to sweep history under the rug are we?).
Sheesh, who cares? How oversensitive can one be? Have a team called the crackers, see if I care.
IM NOT WHITE IM "FLESH COLORED"!
Who can I sue?
How will we have fun with the "Cowboys and Indians" thing if we change the name?
Redskins....Hail to 'em!
;-)
Just call them the "Washington Churchills."
Even though I'm a resident of Washington State, I hope against hope that the 'Skins rip the beaks off the Seahawks.
That is a fact. I don't know why that makes you so uncomfortable.
Whether you like it or not.
Dang, the grocery stores up here sell a potato called a "redskin." Wonder what it should be called now?
Yep! We call them Deadskins down here in Texas...
And, yeah, they did beat us Cowboys twice this year, but considering we won 14 of the previous 15, and next season is not too far away... Payback is hell, ya know?
Call them reservation rats. PC is out of hand.
So slap a temporary decal of a "Pontiac Red" spud on the helmuts, and STILL call them "Redskins".
They're all a bunch of potato heads anyway.
Ask injun.
What term would you use for the Red Mesa high school football team on the Navajo reservation?
The Thinskins vs the Redskins..Personally, I think they should change the name to The Washington Indian Redskins..That should piss somebody off.
Changing the name of the Redskins would be as stupid as changing the name of the Bullets to the Wizards.
Not to disparage your position, of course ;-)
The editors at the Seattle Times showing what completed IDIOTS they have become.