FireChan Posted May 20, 2016 Posted May 20, 2016 (edited) Yes, they'd probably get mad. But not because the term itself is racist or derogatory, rather because your incorrect use of it is insulting. It's like the difference between calling a Korean person Chinese (annoying, insulting, and you look like an ignorant ass), versus calling them a chink (racist, hateful, derogatory). I think it could be very easily argued that calling someone appearing Oriental "Chinese" is racist. Like the definition. It's insulting because you're making an assumption of their race based on how they look, no? Edited May 20, 2016 by FireChan
DrDawkinstein Posted May 20, 2016 Posted May 20, 2016 I think it could be very easily argued that calling someone appearing Oriental "Chinese" is racist. Like the definition. It's insulting because you're making an assumption of their race based on how they look, no? lol, "oriental".
DrDawkinstein Posted May 20, 2016 Posted May 20, 2016 (edited) Jesus, is that one derogatory too? "Jesus", thats a sin. You just cant win bro. And yes, Asians are people, "Oriental" describes things like rugs, vases, etc. Edited May 20, 2016 by DrDareustein
FireChan Posted May 20, 2016 Posted May 20, 2016 "Jesus", thats a sin. You just cant win bro. And yes, Asians are people, "Oriental" describes things like rugs, vases, etc. I thought Oriental just meant pertaining to the East. That's on me.
BarleyNY Posted May 20, 2016 Posted May 20, 2016 Here we go. Did a moderator really start this one? Over/under on this one lasting two pages at even money. Wow. Kinda like the firemen in Fahrenheit 451.
DrDawkinstein Posted May 20, 2016 Posted May 20, 2016 I thought Oriental just meant pertaining to the East. That's on me. Ha aint no thing. I just thought it was funny given our topic of conversation.
boyst Posted May 20, 2016 Posted May 20, 2016 Now I want Chinese food served by a native American in the women's bathroom in the city of Washington DC. Actually, if you bred Chinese to Native American would they be a yellow skin? Or would be a yerrow skin?
Talley56 Posted May 20, 2016 Posted May 20, 2016 The only thing about "Washington Redskins" that offends me is "Washington". Interestingly, for as much as people say that the Giants and Jets should be called New Jersey and not New York for the same reasons the Redskins should really be the Maryland Redskins.
DrDawkinstein Posted May 20, 2016 Posted May 20, 2016 (edited) Now I want Chinese food served by a native American in the women's bathroom in the city of Washington DC. Actually, if you bred Chinese to Native American would they be a yellow skin? Or would be a yerrow skin? Yellow plus Red is Orange, dude. edit: I guess Syracuse would have to change their name, AGAIN (they used to be the Saltine Warriors, but moved away from that racist mascot in the 70s) Edited May 20, 2016 by DrDareustein
BuffaloHokie13 Posted May 20, 2016 Posted May 20, 2016 Yellow plus Red is Orange, dude. so they would be fake tans?
Homey D. Clown Posted May 20, 2016 Posted May 20, 2016 Article - https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/new-poll-finds-9-in-10-native-americans-arent-offended-by-redskins-name/2016/05/18/3ea11cfa-161a-11e6-924d-838753295f9a_story.html Graphs - https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/sports/poll-native-americans-attitudes-toward-the-washington-redskins-team-name/2034/ Maybe they should have polled white liberals offended by everything. That would make for a biased result.
iinii Posted May 20, 2016 Posted May 20, 2016 (edited) New Poll: How many Native Americans own a Redskins' jersey? And what percentage of Native Americans is that? Guess you should have taken the over on the page count Edited May 20, 2016 by iinii
sir andrew Posted May 20, 2016 Posted May 20, 2016 Didn't you know? https://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/05/28/101-being-offended/
SoFFacet Posted May 20, 2016 Posted May 20, 2016 Maybe they should have polled white, urban SJWs to get the 'correct' answer. ? Its a derogatory term used by trolls to refer to normal people that bother to argue with trolls on the internet. Sort of like a millennial version of the term, "libtard." Accordingly, the vast majority of the people wielding the cudgel are less intelligent and less reasonable than the vast majority of the people it is wielded against.
dwight in philly Posted May 20, 2016 Posted May 20, 2016 Its a derogatory term used by trolls to refer to normal people that bother to argue with trolls on the internet. Sort of like a millennial version of the term, "libtard." Accordingly, the vast majority of the people wielding the cudgel are less intelligent and less reasonable than the vast majority of the people it is wielded against. is that an opinion or a fact?
hondo in seattle Posted May 20, 2016 Posted May 20, 2016 If you called me an a**hole, or any other insulting word, I wouldn't feel offended because my self-esteem is internal and not based on what you say. But calling another human being 'a**hole' is wrong nonetheless. What if only 10% of blacks said the 'N" word was offensive? Would it then be okay to use it as a team nickname? What if only 10% of Hispanics felt offended by the pejorative "sp*c." Could we then name a NFL club with that term? This poll, and questions of methodology aside, the "Redsk*n" name remains wrong.
Luxy312 Posted May 20, 2016 Posted May 20, 2016 Folks, there's hundreds of Native American high schools and middle schools that use implied derogatory names for their teams. The media completely ignores this and continues on the path of trying to make a villain out of the Washington Redskins. I'm about 12.5% Five Nations-Seneca Tribe-Waterson Clan and just don't see it. It comes down to context for me, and if you're going to make the Redskins team name a bad thing, then we need to make every rapper using the "N-word" a bad thing as well. Now I don't believe that necessarily either, as again, I think you have to put it everything in context. Redskins, Yankees, Indians, Patriots, Browns, and many other team names can offend someone that puts the name in their own context. Does that mean we should abandon all of sports history in the name of being politically correct for the minority? Sounds pretty stupid to me all around.
hondo in seattle Posted May 20, 2016 Posted May 20, 2016 Folks, there's hundreds of Native American high schools and middle schools that use implied derogatory names for their teams. The media completely ignores this and continues on the path of trying to make a villain out of the Washington Redskins. I'm about 12.5% Five Nations-Seneca Tribe-Waterson Clan and just don't see it. It comes down to context for me, and if you're going to make the Redskins team name a bad thing, then we need to make every rapper using the "N-word" a bad thing as well. Now I don't believe that necessarily either, as again, I think you have to put it everything in context. Redskins, Yankees, Indians, Patriots, Browns, and many other team names can offend someone that puts the name in their own context. Does that mean we should abandon all of sports history in the name of being politically correct for the minority? Sounds pretty stupid to me all around. If the "media completely ignores this," did you find out for yourself by driving around the country checking for mascot names? Or did you learn it in the media? I respect your point of view. While we can argue numbers, certainly a substantial percentage of Native Americans do not consider the word offensive. So do we just say FU to the ones that do? Or can we respect their point of view, too?
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