re: Why are the Redskins getting so much heat?

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Moron, idiot, and imbecile all began as neutral, medical terms. Those fell out of favor in the medical community as their use in the culture at large deemed it inappropriate. The same thing happened to retarded. The same thing will happen to mentally challenged.

By your exact same logic, it is entirely appropriate for me to call a mentally handicapped person an idiot.

All of our words evolve and change over time. Lesbian used to just mean someone from Lesbos. It may seem silly in the short run to just keep replacing them as their cultural definitions and connotations change. But that's the way it's always been, going back to ancient times. You can look at the Greek word "barbarian" and how its definition changed over time within the Greek empire.

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Well if redskin has evolved overtime the only thing it evolved to would be the name of the team in Washington DC. It definitely is not more derogatory now than before. In fact, ive never heard anyone use the term outside of the football team.