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Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14
Watch how with a few changes in words to your quote it can be used to fit my "stampeders" argument:
And I do not believe they are doing it for political reasons, because that would actually involve doing something. Seems like a high horse for the overly self righteous.
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I'm going to requote myself
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Originally Posted by Cole436
The use of the word "Redskins"..... are both repressive, and used as words or images that control ideas of "otherness" or ethnocentrism.
Being informed and aware of issues isn't being overly PC. The real issues deal with people who stick their head in the sand and say "this is the way it's always been".
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Case in point, would you believe it to be appropriate to address a Native as a "Redskin"? That has the connotations as myself being addressed as a "Wop".
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It's not ok to use an ethnic slur as the name of a professional football team.