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Originally Posted by flameswin
Haha, there's nothing better than non natives (assuming) explaining how ridiculous it is that natives would be offended at a team name. "I mean as a white guy people need to just stop being offended at stuff. It's getting out of hand!"
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It is also just as ridiculous to hear statements like...
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Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14
I for one would get an absolute kick out of the Washington Whities or the Washington Crackers. But then it would be racist for under representing minorities.
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As if derogatory slurs directed to white people is exactly the same as those that have been inextricably tied to a long history of racial violence, cultural expunction, and even genocide. Why am I not offended by these words? I suspect it has something to do with the fact that as a white person living in the Western world, all I have ever known is civil liberty. Never been racially threatened. Never been culturally undermined. Can some of you really not see the difference?