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“Mr. Cartman”?
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Caitlin doesn’t get out much.
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A worthy tribute to the Washington Snyders.
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South Park is still around? I thought it jumped the shark right after the movie came out.
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Oh, HELL yeah!
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No, no, no! She’s just using the NYT stylebook – the one that forced Robert Hunter to refer to Meat Loaf in a review of Bat Out of Hell as “Mr. Loaf.”
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more like the washington shysters
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No, it bloody well surfed the shark. Sharks love, being surfed, BTW, especially broiled on a bed of risotto.
I quit paying attention when nobody could reasonably explain why the name was suddenly offensive after 81 years in use.
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You’re white and live in South Dakota, by any chance?
If so, I wouldn’t expect you to get it.
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To re-post my reply to another poster with the same dopey question:
And for a couple of centuries, there was no uproar about referring to niggers, pickaninnies, and darkies, or kikes, or wetbacks, etc., etc. So why did that suddenly change? Are you suggesting that the status quo is made of granite?
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Of all the counters these turds have come up with, the “you’re not really offended, you’re just running with the crowd” one is the most idiotic.
Of course, when you ask them why they’re so utterly furious over the prospect of a name change, they don’t seem to be able to come up with a sensible or plausible answer.
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“Not being able to explain” something is not equivalent to “not being able to explain something so that doninsd can understand it.”
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You do realize that your argument is of the form "But we’ve always called them (insert derogatory term of your choice)?
The people to whom the name is applied get to make the call as to when they consider it derogatory, not you.
Not only that … you are the third person I’ve seen on these boards complaining that it’s been used for years to why now? Please let us know where you get your talking points.
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I’d like to take this opportunity to repeat my earlier suggestion for a new name for the team: The Beltway Bandits.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and the New York Times.
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Yeah, that’s why there has been a movement growing in the Native American community for decades.
You just hearing about it doesn’t make it new.
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It didn’t just suddenly become objectionable. It has become topical. Why is it topical now and not before? Increased advocacy, and sometimes things just go viral.
I went to the university of illinois and I know their mascot, Chief Illiniwek, was put out to pasture seven or eight years ago, but that it took more than a decade of intense advocacy before it happened. And of course there were objections well before then (I remember complaints when I attended in the early/mid 80s), just not enough to result in action.
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How about the Washington Gridlock?
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