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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (404269)	8/4/2008 8:07:08 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1571811

Ted, > You really are one naive human being. Growing up watching the Redskins, I never realized how "offensive" the name might be until some Native American radio talk show host wrote an editorial about it in Newsweek. That was around my high school senior year. Guess I must have been a "racist" until then for cheering for a team named the "Redskins," huh? Why are you doing this? Why would you be expected to know at ten that the Redskins is a derogatory term? I know I didn't. In fact, that's the point.......most of us would not know its a derogatory term but Native Americans think of it as one. If there was a team called the New Orlean Niggers, do you think blacks would not be offended? Would that name be acceptable to you? Since then I've seen many more examples of hypersensitivity and how they've resulted in absolutely nothing but making certain topics too taboo to discuss. I've watched the Washington Bullets change their name to the Washington Wizards without resulting in any decline in gun violence. (What, gangsters in D.C. are supposed to trade in their guns for magic wands?) I've seen my high school try and regulate cheers because they thought some were too derogatory to the opposing team. None of them involved any profanity or racism, but that mattered little to the administrators. Trust me.....as a white man in this society, its not hypersensitivity. Discrimination is alive and well in this country. I can't tell you how many times I have heard racial or religious slurs against nearly every ethnicity, religion or color. It even goes on between minorities as well. It seems to be a part of human nature. If this society were homogeneous it might be less of a problem but in a culture as diverse as ours it only creates unnecessary tensions. More importantly, I've seen guys like yourself take over the whole issue of race relations and twist it around into a sad image of its former self. Political correctness has done nothing to help race relations or increase sensitivity. All it has done is achieve censorship. Now you tell me who is the naive one, Ted.

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