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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Age: 48
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Re: Judge Sides With Redskins in Team Name Suit
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I'm not desperately grasping at anything... I'm adding to a discussion. If you polled African-Americans in the 50s, I'm guessing the overwhelming majority weren't offended at the term "colored" back then either. Are you saying we have to wait until some future point in time where the polls will reflect otherwise for NAs? *Although, I'd like to fast forward to such a time in order to see if your stance on our team's name was really, in fact, dictated by poll numbers. The term "redskins" isn't really even borderline in today's non-football vernacular. Quite the opposite, the majority of dictionary publishers, English professors and most citizens (in general) cite an offensiveness with this term when used to describe the Native American people. Why do we have to wait until there's some type of government-sponsored poll of Native Americans to do the right thing? Several universities have already reversed their long-standing traditions... they've waken up. As a society, we make the conscious decision to render words obsolete- we don't have to wait until the offending group deems it so. But feel free to continue responding to something you don't agree with using emotional pejoratives... everything's black and white, right? Last edited by itvnetop; 07-15-2008 at 04:54 AM. |
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