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Old 06-21-2014, 01:43 AM
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Location: Pine Grove,AL
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So is "Fighting Irish". Well; not to me even tho I'm of Irish family.
Irish is a nationality, not a derogatory term.
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Old 06-21-2014, 01:46 AM
 
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what are the sports casters going to call them now? they should say, "the team, formerly called the red skins. LOL
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Old 06-21-2014, 01:49 AM
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Location: Pine Grove,AL
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Of course it is. Five Indians said so and the patent office was ordered to be politically correct like all too many sycophants on the left and right coasts.

Go Redskins!
Your argument is that the word isnt offensive simply because you arent offended by it, that is flawed logic at its worst.
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Old 06-21-2014, 01:51 AM
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Location: Pine Grove,AL
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what are the sports casters going to call them now? they should say, "the team, formerly called the red skins. LOL
No, but this works fine

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Old 06-21-2014, 03:14 AM
 
Location: Someplace Wonderful
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So is "Fighting Irish". Well; not to me even tho I'm of Irish family.
What if they were The Drunken Irish?
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Old 06-21-2014, 03:58 AM
 
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Irish is a nationality, not a derogatory term.
So for fun and to illustrate your point further, you'd be okay with team names such as the The Lazy Mexicans, The Lying Kenyans, The Cheap Israelis,The Greasy Spaniards,The Dumb Pollocks, etc.?
They are all nationalities, not derogatory.
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Old 06-21-2014, 04:31 AM
 
Location: Michigan
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So for fun and to illustrate your point further, you'd be okay with team names such as the The Lazy Mexicans, The Lying Kenyans, The Cheap Israelis,The Greasy Spaniards,The Dumb Pollocks, etc.?
They are all nationalities, not derogatory.
Sticking a defamotory word in front of the nationality makes them derogatory. (I never knew 'pollock' was a nationality or even a country........)
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Old 06-21-2014, 04:34 AM
 
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Sticking a negitive word in front of the nationality makes them derogatory. (I never knew 'pollock' was a nationality or even a country........)
My point to that poster if you'd been following along.
But yeah I erred on the Polish one.
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Old 06-21-2014, 04:35 AM
 
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What if they were The Drunken Irish?
To make it offensive it would have to be The Fighting Micks!
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Old 06-21-2014, 04:38 AM
 
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Redskins is offensive, period.
Only to white liberals
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