No more Native American headdresses or facepaint in Washington stadium

[RoryN]

Another thing Deplorables were fighting.

Another fight they lost.

 

[pecksniff]

It always did look silly . . . but, then, football crowds always do.

 

[pecksniff]

Say, when is the Washington Football Team going to pick an actual name?

There was once a baseball team called the Senators. That would do.

 

[Specula]

Another thing Deplorables were fighting.

Another fight they lost.

Right on!

 

[RoryN]

Say, when is the Washington Football Team going to pick an actual name?

There was once a baseball team called the Senators. That would do.

Next year.

 

[SyLent]

Another thing Deplorables were fighting.

Another fight they lost.

https://images.8tracks.com/cover/i/009/099/710/Off_Your_Rocker_music_cover-7336.jpg?rect=19,0,440,440&q=98&fm=jpg&fit=max

 

[Bud_Spencer]

No
Fun
League

So I guess that hallowed Right to Free Expression ends at the field's edge, eh? Go ahead and kneel, just make sure you don't offend the Privileged Class's tender sensibilities.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

No
Fun
League

So I guess that hallowed Right to Free Expression ends at the field's edge, eh? Go ahead and kneel, just make sure you don't offend the Privileged Class's tender sensibilities.

It seems very strange to make being an asshole a Constitutional issue.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Free expression at the expense of an entire people's dignity? Why not call the Washington Football Team the Washington Slavers or Washinton Genocides? But wtf do you care? Free expression and all that.
And since when have First Nations People been privileged?

Native Americans, as numerous polls show, were either apathetic about the name or even proud of it. The entire push for the change came from the usual quarters of woke white soibois who would be killed in one play on an NFL field.

And since when is taking offense a reason to silence expression? Plenty of people were offended by the kneelers, but the NFL insisted on letting them express themselves, no? What about the people paying the bills, do they not count?

 

[Bud_Spencer]

It seems very strange to make being an asshole a Constitutional issue.

See: Colin Kaepernick, LeBron James, etc.

You cretins made it a Constitutional issue, not me.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Native Americans, as numerous polls show, were either apathetic about the name or even proud of it. The entire push for the change came from the usual quarters of woke white soibois who would be killed in one play on an NFL field.

And since when is taking offense a reason to silence expression? Plenty of people were offended by the kneelers, but the NFL insisted on letting them express themselves, no? What about the people paying the bills, do they not count?

They probably didn't really care because they have bigger issues but those polls were never reliable. OF course they were going to say it doesn't bother them rather than get the backlash from people like you.

See: Colin Kaepernick, LeBron James, etc.

You cretins made it a Constitutional issue, not me.

You made it on. You could have done a lot of things, like what you were already doing and making sure you were getting beer, using the bathroom or sitting at home rather than reacting at all. But bigots wake up in the morning and have to do something offensive, its how they feel alive.

 

[pecksniff]

. . . the Privileged Class's . . .

We do have one of those, but "college-educated liberals" is not its definition.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

We do have one of those, but "college-educated liberals" is not its definition.

Not that I cite him often, but David Brooks calls them the "BoBos," and he's pretty spot-on.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

They probably didn't really care because they have bigger issues but those polls were never reliable. OF course they were going to say it doesn't bother them rather than get the backlash from people like you.

Hush up, Tonto, we'll decide for you what you need to be offended about.

You made it on. You could have done a lot of things, like what you were already doing and making sure you were getting beer, using the bathroom or sitting at home rather than reacting at all. But bigots wake up in the morning and have to do something offensive, its how they feel alive.

When Fuzztop took a knee, the port side howled at the suggestion that the NFL and the owners had the right to limit their players' behavior while in uniform and on the clock. It was a despicable restriction on the First Amendment, don't you know?

Well, now that spectators - who are paying everyone's bills - are saying things in protest, that Deeply Held Principle goes the way of every other Deeply Held Principle when it runs afoul of the leftist agenda: Out the window.

 

[RoryN]

When Fuzztop took a knee, the port side howled at the suggestion that the NFL and the owners had the right to limit their players' behavior while in uniform and on the clock. It was a despicable restriction on the First Amendment, don't you know?

Well, now that spectators - who are paying everyone's bills - are saying things in protest, that Deeply Held Principle goes the way of every other Deeply Held Principle when it runs afoul of the leftist agenda: Out the window.

^^^
Desperate, contrived & busted logic of an uneducated Deplorable.

The effort required to create this "analogy" should have been a hint.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

^^^
Desperate, contrived & busted logic of an uneducated Deplorable.

The effort required to create this "analogy" should have been a hint.

It's not even an analogy, it's identical.

 

[RoryN]

It's not even an analogy, it's identical.

https://i.imgur.com/HZwFKIK.gif

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Bullshit.

From a symposium on the use of Native American imagery in sports. Held in Washington.


• From E. Newton Jackson, professor of sports management at the University of North Florida and a member of the Cherokee Tribes of South Carolina: "How does one person tell another that they honor them best? How do we do that when I'm telling you that what you're saying and doing does not honor me?"

• From Lois Risling, land specialist for the Hoopa Valley Tribes, who attended Stanford University in the early 1970s, when the school's teams were known as the Indians and were cheered on to "scalp the [Cal] bear": "We were told it was an honor to have an Indian mascot chosen as the symbol as a great university. When 55 of us presented a petition to have the name and symbol changed, we were told we were all taking it too personal and should just get over it. When we said Prince Lightfoot [the school's live mascot at the time] was wearing clothing that was wrong, and that his dance was wrong, we were told, 'Stanford Indians dress like this, and anyone who goes to Stanford is a Stanford Indian, so that makes it OK.'"

• From John Orendorff, a U.S. Army colonel and Native American: "I often feel that the underlying point of these 'honors' is that my Indian heritage is owned by others. The message I'm constantly getting is: 'We own you. We will define how we honor you. Don't tell us whether you like it or not, because we own you. When we hunt down Osama bin Laden, we can refer to him as Geronimo -- which happens to be my son's name -- because we own you. You don't control how you're perceived. We control that. Because we own you.'"

• From Robert Holden, deputy director of the National Congress of American Indians: "I'm a sports junkie, but I don't think the [team] owners understand that they're not honoring us. Honors like that we don't need. Please, take it back."

• From an audience member who identified himself as Native American: "If [team owner] Dan Snyder truly thinks the word 'Redskins' is honorific, I challenge him to attend the next meeting of the National Congress of American Indians and try using that word to people's faces."

https://www.espn.com/blog/playbook/fandom/post/_/id/18144/native-americans-speak-on-sports-imagery

Anecdotes from members of the Grievance Industry.

These results echo those of a 2016 poll that found that only 9 percent of Native Americans described themselves as offended by the Redskins name, while 90 percent said it did not bother them.

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...redskins-name-finds-proud-most-common-answer/

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Lmao, from your article:

The Washington Post did not publish the full results of the survey, so we do not know what percentage of respondents offered each response.

ETA: Go to a reserve, ButtSpencer, and start calling Native Americans red skins. I dare you.

The results are typical. It only offended white lefties.

 

[pecksniff]

Not that I cite him often, but David Brooks calls them the "BoBos," and he's pretty spot-on.

I've read Brooks. He's full of shit.

The term "Bobo" comes from Brooks's 2000 book Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There. The word is a portmanteau of the words bourgeois and bohemian.[1] In the book, Brooks (who self identifies as a "bobo") argues that modern American culture is controlled largely by these upper-class baby boomers who mix counter-culture with consumerism. This sort of pop psychology is Brooks's stock-in-trade.

This is not a "privileged class" except in terms of high earnings they still have to earn. The actual privileged class does not have to earn.