Washington Post editorials will no longer use ‘Redskins’ for the local NFL team

Washington Post ^ | August 22, 2014 | Editorial Board

[Brad from Tennessee]

THIS PAGE has for many years urged the local football team to change its name. The term “Redskins,” we wrote in 1992, “is really pretty offensive.” The team owner then, Jack Kent Cooke, disagreed, and the owner now, Daniel M. Snyder, disagrees, too. But the matter seems clearer to us now than ever, and while we wait for the National Football League to catch up with thoughtful opinion and common decency, we have decided that, except when it is essential for clarity or effect, we will no longer use the slur ourselves. That’s the standard we apply to all offensive vocabulary, and the team name unquestionably offends not only many Native Americans but many other Americans, too.

We were impressed this week by the quiet integrity of Mike Carey, who recently retired after 19 seasons as one of the NFL’s most respected referees. As recounted by Post columnist Mike Wise, Mr. Carey asked the league not to assign him to officiate any Washington games and, since 2006, the league granted his request. He never made any announcement about it. “It just became clear to me that to be in the middle of the field, where something disrespectful is happening, was probably not the best thing for me,” Mr. Carey said. . .

[trebb]

Just call them the “foreskins”

If you mean those on the "editorial board", then I agree.....they're really ignorant dick-heads.

[Rummyfan]

Why is the Washington Post editorial page writing about the Redskins period?!

[b4its2late]

That they are!

[Albion Wilde]

This is understandable. Different people are offended by different things. For example, I am sometimes offended by Post content, such as the above editorial. Why can’t they just do the decent, reasoning thing and go out of business?

LOL!!

[Albion Wilde]

KR will no longer use the Washington Post. (actually, that was as of c. 1973)

I sympathize -- it's hard to boycott a paper you wouldn't read for free in Starbucks. When I was growing up in DC, there were two papers: the Washington Star (for normal Americans) and the Washington Post (for Democrats). We would never have the Post in our house.

[Albion Wilde]

WaPo is run by a bunch of smarmy little jerks. Their moral superiority smells to high heaven.

Last year, the WaPo was bought by Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com. So, yeah... leftie moral superiority.

[Albion Wilde]

But I now know how the expression “Dumb as a Post” became a synonym for stupid

Nice one!

[Brad from Tennessee]

[Why is the Washington Post editorial page writing about the Redskins period?!]

Great point!

[lentulusgracchus]

That probably hasn’t gone on since the end of Camelot. Nowadays D.C. `power people’ suck up to the likes of Sally Quinn or Michelle Obama. Really class acts, both of them.

I like the shots of Moochelle's butt going through a doorway. It's always an adventure in architectural survival.

[lentulusgracchus]

[What are they going to do? Call them “The R-words”?]

The Ebonyskins.

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"Redmen".

"Ruddymen".

"Assassins, genocides, and cannibalizers of the original Eurasian paleo-occupants of America".

Oops. Now I've done it.

[Taxman]

LOL!

[elcid1970]

“...an adventure in architectural survival.”

LOL! I like to refer to Hillary as “The Flying Buttress” but she has some dangerous competition. They don’t like each other too much, either.

[apoliticalone]

Society changes its views not based upon society, but based upon media propagandists. The media as way too much discretionary controll over acceptability of our thought processes as they pit us against one another.