“like an old aunt who still talks about ‘colored people’”
I still say that term, and negro, and black. I will not use the currently mandated hyphenated name.
Two years later, I made a sales call to the casino offices and encountered three members of the tribe wearing Washington Redskins caps and sweatshirts.
I mentioned this to some hand-wringing liberals and they were aghast that the Indians were "still being adversely influenced by a white culture that demeans them."
My reply, "You might have something there. My horse was greatly offended when I told him that a mere human was once named Crazy Horse. The poor animal has been seeing an animal psychiatrist for three weeks now trying to get past that demeaning insult."
If they can’t be the Washington Redskins, why not just call them the Washington Foreskins?
“The article, to its credit, acknowledged that the term ‘redskins’ was not coined as a racist epithet....”
Nor were almost all the other words that give today’s oh-so-sensitive folks the fainting swoons. There is probably a term for the psychological syndrome of consistently seeking out ways to hear “racism” in words.
Why do liberals lecture us on so many issues? We get lectured about the evils of capitalism, racism, sexism, bullying of homosexual youth, global warming, and other liberal causes. American Indian team nicknames are another liberal =cause for which we’re supposed to react with outrage that these team names exist. We’re led to believe that our lives will be =complete if only Indian nicknames are eradicated from the face of the earth.
Do liberals have too much time on their hands, when liberals feel such angst over a subject such as this?
I fully expect the Redskins to cave—as did the Swiss handbag shop, the Missouri State Fair, and just about everyone else who gets accused of “racism.”
Hilariously, Syracuse U changed their mascot name a few years ago from Orange Men to just “Orange.” The fruit should be outraged!!
Redskin Potatoes?
Washington Wampum?
It doesn’t matter. Concussions should make football extinct in a few years.
Perhaps there are enough Blacks on the R-skins team for them to change it’s name to Blackskins.
The country is on fire and the world is going to Hell, yet this kind of crap is somehow important!? There are far too many Thinskins.
As if Slate readers watch football anyway.
Its all about some white people trying to feel morally superior to other white people. The former being nothing but a joke.
How many people know that the baseball team that played in Atlanta before the Braves moved there was known as the “Atlanta Crackers” which is supposedly a derogatory term for whites? An of course you might be a “redneck” if.... Redneck was once a derogatory term for lower income whites [according to a PBS documentary the term was originally use to refer to striking coal miners who wore red around their necks to distinguish themselves from the Pinkertons hired by the coal mines.]
I’m surprised it’s taken them this long to ramp up their hissyfit on the Redskins name.
They got “Washington Bullets” changed to “Wizards” a long time ago.
If I owned a sports team my mascot would be an Indian with an AK-47. Chief Pop a Cap.
OK - I will no longer refer to the online magazine “Slate” by it’s name (after that one anyway)....I will substitute “Jock Itch”.