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Army vets blast PC police for attacking Apache, Chinook helicopters as racist
The Washington Times ^ | June 27, 2014 | Douglas Ernst

Posted on 06/27/2014 6:32:50 PM PDT by moonshinner_09

Veterans aren’t happy with a recent op-ed by the Washington Post, which charged that the Apache, Comanche, Chinook, Lakota, Cheyenne and Kiowa military vehicles were a “greater symbolic injustice” than the NFL’s Washington Redskins’ name. “Even if the NFL and Redskins brass come to their senses and rename the team, a greater symbolic injustice would continue to afflict Indians — an injustice perpetuated not by a football club but by our federal government,” Simon Waxman of the Boston Review wrote for the Post on Thursday.

He added that the helicopter names were “propaganda” that needed to end, because Native American life expectancy statistics indicate the “violence is ongoing, even if the guns are silent.” Readers at the popular military news gathering website Doctrine Man reacted Friday. “I suspect that the author is less unhappy that our choppers have Indian names, and more unhappy that there is a U.S. military,” wrote Alex Kuhns. Kevin Schooler wrote: “What floors me is that for the most part, it isn’t American Indians who are offended. It is guilt-ridden white liberals being offended on their behalf. How’s that for paternalism?”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Government; Local News; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: military; nfl; pc; racist; redskins; vets
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It is guilt-ridden white liberals being offended on their behalf. How’s that for paternalism?”..That sums it very well.
1 posted on 06/27/2014 6:32:50 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
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To: moonshinner_09
You name after people you admire and respect.

Evidently Lefties don't admire or respect Apaches and Chinooks.

2 posted on 06/27/2014 6:34:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: moonshinner_09

I really thought this was semi-news satire. Damn.


3 posted on 06/27/2014 6:34:31 PM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deco et Vives)
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To: moonshinner_09

Maybe Daniel Schnyder should start using an Apache when he flies out to see his football team lose.


4 posted on 06/27/2014 6:35:31 PM PDT by CharleysPride (A accipitris volatu supra quinque vexillis)
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To: moonshinner_09

So where does this leave the Apache web server? Bill Gates is probably behind this...


5 posted on 06/27/2014 6:39:37 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Most likely their great great grandfathers killed them.


6 posted on 06/27/2014 6:44:37 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read newspapers you are misinformed)
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To: moonshinner_09

At this point, lets do it. Lets erase all reference to minorities/their culture from America. And as each refrence is removed from the public lexicon, make an official speech saying that because liberals were offended, the minority previously being honored can take their eradication from the public square up with the folks responsible for making them meaningless. For making them non persons unworthy of honor or recognition.


7 posted on 06/27/2014 6:44:52 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: moonshinner_09

I’d be willing to let them rename the Apache after me so the liberals aren’t being offended.

Then, they can use the new AH-64 Bryan to reach out to liberals. You know, find them where they are and conduct outreach using the time-tested means that the old Apache helicopter was so well-known for but with the new, friendlier name since names are so important to them.

We can rename the Hellfire the Peace-Love-Tofu and send liberals some Peace-Love-Tofu wherever they congregate.

The chain gun can be renamed Fairness and they always want more Fairness, don’t they. Give em Fairness until they just can’t take any more!

Then we can rename the B-52 the Good Vibes and send some Good Vibes to the big liberal cities and colleges.

I’m sick of those people!


8 posted on 06/27/2014 6:45:46 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyranni)
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I went thro this crap with some bubble headed college girl who tried to scold me for one of my Indian Motorcycle shirts. I tried to explain to her the the bikes were supposed to embody the fine qualities of their names. The Chief was powerful and dignified, Scout quick and agile etc. The stupid was just too strong with this one.
9 posted on 06/27/2014 6:46:04 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I always took it for granted that sports teams and military hardware were named after great indian tribes and leaders out of respect.

Why would someone name something they were very proud of after something they disrespected?! -—> THEY WOULDN’T!
only a fool would think otherwise.


10 posted on 06/27/2014 6:48:46 PM PDT by Bobalu (What cannot be programmed cannot be physics)
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To: CrazyIvan

You just don’t know how to talk to liberals. Here allow me to give you one that always works..

“STFU”

Guaranteed to end the immediate conversation with a lib and make them go away complaining.


11 posted on 06/27/2014 6:49:51 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: moonshinner_09

Who is Simon Waxman?


12 posted on 06/27/2014 6:50:06 PM PDT by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: moonshinner_09

My ancestors belonged to a tribe. Our tribal name is hard to write, but it roughly translates out to “Rotten, Thieving, Whoring, Drunken Bast**ds”.

Yeah, give your helicopter that name.


13 posted on 06/27/2014 6:50:35 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: moonshinner_09
“Simon Waxman of the Boston Review wrote for the Post”

Simon Waxman, now there is an authentic Native American, or Indian, or whatever the politically correct term is.

The simple fact is no one is offended by these names. Liberal phonies just falsely say they are offended to advance some agenda.

14 posted on 06/27/2014 6:50:43 PM PDT by detective
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To: moonshinner_09

I wonder if George H.W. Bush is offended that the Navy named an Aircraft Carrier after him? Dr. Savage is right, Liberalism IS a Mental Disorder.


15 posted on 06/27/2014 6:52:25 PM PDT by 230FMJ (...from my cold, dead, fingers.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Let’s start with Black history Month since we’ve been told calling someone black is offensive.


16 posted on 06/27/2014 6:52:38 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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I always the uss George h w bush was too waspy.


17 posted on 06/27/2014 6:53:38 PM PDT by willywill
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To: Norm Lenhart

LOL! I always think of Mark Twain: “Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.”


18 posted on 06/27/2014 6:53:53 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: moonshinner_09

I guess they forgot about the [racist] Jeep Cherokee too. [/s]


19 posted on 06/27/2014 6:54:55 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: moonshinner_09

I guess Chrysler will have to change the name of the Jeep Cherokee and Grand Cherokee.


20 posted on 06/27/2014 6:55:19 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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