Author Topic: Pelosi: "Redskins" is offensive so let's let everybody use "Redskins"  (Read 3094 times)

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Re: Pelosi: "Redskins" is offensive so let's let everybody use "Redskins"
« Reply #25 on: March 16, 2014, 06:07:30 PM »
If honesty is a criteria, there will need to be some sort of deal with the -Glide/-Lube folks to compensate them from being left out of the mascot/logo thing.

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Re: Pelosi: "Redskins" is offensive so let's let everybody use "Redskins"
« Reply #26 on: March 16, 2014, 11:39:23 PM »
So when are they going to go after non-Asians wearing kimonos, non-blacks wearing saggy pants, non-whites wearing wife beaters, etc.?

There was an brief uproar about Katy Perry, but it didn't stick. 

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Re: Pelosi: "Redskins" is offensive so let's let everybody use "Redskins"
« Reply #27 on: March 17, 2014, 12:41:33 AM »
So when are they going to go after non-Asians wearing kimonos, non-blacks wearing saggy pants, non-whites wearing wife beaters, etc.?


Wait, we own the wife-beater? Sweet. I knew there was some reason I liked them so much. =)

I had this idea that the big, feathery headdress had a certain ceremonial significance, which makes me think the uproar is not entirely baseless. As opposed to kimonos, and such, which are everyday wear. Maybe I'm wrong about both.

I wonder why Katy Perry wearing a kimono is racist "appropriation," but a Japanese wearing Western clothing is conforming to the white man's fashions, or giving up his culture, or whatever.
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