Posted on 08/22/2014 1:22:31 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
THIS PAGE has for many years urged the local football team to change its name. The term “Redskins,” we wrote in 1992, “is really pretty offensive.” The team owner then, Jack Kent Cooke, disagreed, and the owner now, Daniel M. Snyder, disagrees, too. But the matter seems clearer to us now than ever, and while we wait for the National Football League to catch up with thoughtful opinion and common decency, we have decided that, except when it is essential for clarity or effect, we will no longer use the slur ourselves. That’s the standard we apply to all offensive vocabulary, and the team name unquestionably offends not only many Native Americans but many other Americans, too.
We were impressed this week by the quiet integrity of Mike Carey, who recently retired after 19 seasons as one of the NFL’s most respected referees. As recounted by Post columnist Mike Wise, Mr. Carey asked the league not to assign him to officiate any Washington games and, since 2006, the league granted his request. He never made any announcement about it. “It just became clear to me that to be in the middle of the field, where something disrespectful is happening, was probably not the best thing for me,” Mr. Carey said. . .
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Until they came out in the second preseason game with their hands up in support of Saint Thug II, I was rooting for them to make the super bowl just to see the consternation on the Left.
I shall be watching even less than next to nothing of NFL offerings this year, even if the Viqueenies play the 9ers or Skins
Hmmmm...it offends me to hear Obama called “President”. Could we stop that slur as well?
I hate that our first and finest Presidents name has been so abused by lunatics.
And millions of people will not list Washington comPost as source for any news.
I assume the Sports Section will still use “Redskins”.
I would not assume that…….
In light of this, Michael Sam and the handling of the Dolphins DB who DARED to criticize “the kiss”, and all the offseason criminal activity, I decided to unplug the NFL this year, too. I’ll get my fill on college and the occasional old USFL video on Youtube.
The Washington Compost has been offending me and many of my conservative FRiends for years and years!
The Compost is only fit to line the bottom of my bird cage!
I suspect the Editorial section ban is to soften the inevitable blow of when they remove it from the sports section.
Well how often are the Redskins even mentioned in their editorial section?
I’d like to see how they will show a photo gallery of game action without showing the logo. Maybe they will airbrush it out of every picture.
The editors can check with the staff of Pravda to see how they did it in the 1930s.
They should change the name of the 9ers.. To the Thinskins.. Or the Forty Whiners!!
Brand new stadium, the turf is toast.. 1.3 billion
Ouch!
See ya at the SB .. Not!
Maybe all Redskins fans should cancel their subscriptions and see if the new management cares.
I wonder how many subscriptions the Post has.
Newspaper circulation has dropped way off in the past 10 to 15 years.
Some papers are charging to subscribe on the website. But I wonder how many people do that?
Good point. How often do the editorials have any mention of sports or football or the Redskins in the first place? It’s just a symbolic action, which the liberals on the editorial board felt compelled to make, to prove how liberal they are.
Just call them the “foreskins”
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