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  • Don't Gimme An "N": "Redskins" is nothing like the "N-word"

    08/31/2014 6:34:31 PM PDT · by Daniel Clark · 30 replies
    The Shinbone: The Frontier of the Free Press ^ | August 31, 2014 | Daniel Clark
    Don’t Gimme An “N”: “Redskins” is nothing like the “N-word” by Daniel Clark If you’ve watched any media panel discussions about the Washington Redskins’ nickname, you’ve noticed that the typical, knee-jerk liberal response is, “Calling a team the Redskins is no different from calling it the N-word.” A more honest critic would stop to wonder why that’s never been done. It can’t be that people have been more sensitive about offending blacks than Indians. Back when many sports teams were given their nicknames, nobody would have guessed that a racial slur would one day be censored as “the N-word.” The...