What's in a Name? Political Correctness and Tyranny!
So now it's politically incorrect to refer to a professional football team's name as the Redskins. After a century of existence, somehow now that is a racist and offensive name. Let us just call them the Skins, says Charles Krauthammer, a usually thoughtfully commentator. Yikes, that's pretty macabre. I know some native Americans -Indians, as it were - who are not in any way offended by that team's name. In fact they're proud of it. Here in Florida a few years back, the same tightly wound, perpetually offended pantywaists decided that the University of Florida's mascot Seminoles was offensive to Native Americans. Demeaning somehow. BS, the FSU alumnae said! BS, the Seminole tribe said. We're not offended, far from it. We take pride in our heritage.
So why bother trying to recast longstanding brands? In any application of the notion, it's simply tyranny by way of thought control. Native Americans - Indians - are victims of the vile aggressive white man, and in no way can a white man utter that redskin slur. The "N" word is another example. It's merely a contraction of the word Negro, which is the proper name of the race, just as Caucasian is the proper name for the white race. But they, too, are victims of the white man in the progressive mind. The white man's culture must be changed, rewritten, for the better, and for the common good.
Don't buy that? Well, George Orwell had it identified over a half century ago - define the language and you define the culture. And it's the culture the liberals/progressives/Marxists seek to fundamentally change. Remember that slogan Hope and Change? This is a manifestation of that change; the erasure of the Western, Caucasian culture. And that attempt to rewrite history is racist.
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