re: Why are the Redskins getting so much heat?

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Indian

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incorrect, while tens of thousands of years ago, they traveled from the land now known as india...they aren't indian. They do however have a skin color most closely resembling red (I'm actually color blind so please don't get into further detail with actual color )and obviously I get where its origins come from; however the original meaning and the current meaning are not the same...which leads me to

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The definition has changed.

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what a novel idea...so you mean a word like "redskin" could theoretically not be racist even though it once was

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just as Hitler changed the meaning of Aryan and the swastika.

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precisely...and it can change back in 150 years...who the frick knows. You're assuming that only works in one direction...except you're not because you think "indian" is a more accurate description of native americans


words mean, what we want them to mean