Military slurring Native Americans by using tribe names?

[Tech]

Give a libtard an inch, they take a mile. Father served three years on the USS Hopi ATF-71 during WW II.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...c18738-fc9a-11e3-932c-0a55b81f48ce_story.html

 

[Vince]

In the United States today, the names Apache, Comanche, Chinook, Lakota, Cheyenne and Kiowa apply not only to Indian tribes but also to military helicopters. Add in the Black Hawk, named for a leader of the Sauk tribe. Then there is the Tomahawk, a low-altitude missile, and a drone named for an Indian chief, Gray Eagle. Operation Geronimo was the end of Osama bin Laden.

Why do we name our battles and weapons after people we have vanquished? For the same reason the Washington team is the Redskins and my hometown Red Sox go to Cleveland to play the Indians and to Atlanta to play the Braves: because the myth of the worthy native adversary is more palatable than the reality — the conquered tribes of this land were not rivals but victims, cheated and impossibly outgunned.

Why do we have stupid people that write crap like this? Next step, change any name to which anyone in the entire world objects. Soon you'll have to get a government approval to name your children.

 

[BOP]

The trademark decision sounds like an infringement of free-speech rights, but it asserts a degree of pressure in any case. Libtard to english translation: We don't care about no stinkin' constitution...the end justifies the means.

 

[BOP]

Washington Post commenter's post of the milllenium:

"darkmatter1
6/30/2014 10:12 PM EST
Why oh why do you spend so much time protesting the use of words associated with Native Americans? Have you asked any Native Americans? Well, I AM a Native American. You idiots at the Post are a disgusting group of racists, as are the 50 United States Senators who signed that letter to the NFL. Why? You have decided that we Native Americans cannot be trusted to decide for ourselves what does and does not offend us. You are disgusting.

I live in a state with over a million other people of Native American descent. I grew up much of the time on a reservation. I have a large extended family, which is, you guessed it, Native American (apart from a few in-laws). I live in a town where my neighbors are Native American. And I can't find one that objects to "Redskins" as a team name, nor "Apache," "Kiowa," "Choctaw" or any other tribe name as applied to a helicopter. I have asked, lots of times, and it should tell you something if lf all my personal friends, family, neighbors and acquaintances, I cannot find any who are the least upset, including people who are Apaches, Kiowa and Choctaws. In fact, I am Choctaw.

Do you not comprehend how racist it is to spend your time telling those of us who are Native Americans, "You really don't understand how offensive this is! Here, we'll fix it for you!"? Do you not comprehend that when surveys show 90 percent of Native Americans have no problem with the Redskins team name, when whole Native communities have named the local school teams Redskins, that the vast majority of us are NOT offended by the word, but ARE DEEPLY OFFENDED BY YOUR INSISTENCE THAT YOU KNOW BETTER WHAT IS GOOD FOR US!

You at the post who permit such idiocies as this piece by Simon Waxman should be ashamed, rather than so proud for taking care of us "poor, ignorant Indians who don't know to be angry at this abuse!" You are the abusers! SHAME ON YOU!"

 

[BOP]

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/ev...-helicopter-names-are-not-racist-d21beb55d782

Sometimes, you look at an article twice just to make sure it’s not from The Onion. That was certainly the case when I read last Friday’s Washington Post, which featured an op-ed from Simon Waxman demanding the U.S. military drop the references to Native Americans from its helicopter names.

This of course comes in the wake of the recent controversy surrounding the Washington Redskins.

But Waxman, the managing editor of Boston Review, created a false equivalence between a football team named after a term generally considered to be a racial slur—“redskin”—and products named after the proper names for Native American tribes—Apache, Kiowa, etc.

 

[gary_webb]

"INSISTENCE THAT YOU KNOW BETTER WHAT IS GOOD FOR US!"

This is the definition of modern liberalism.

 

[stgislander]

There is a long history of Navy and Coast Guard ships named after Indian tribes. In fact, they ought to go back to that tradition instead of naming ships after political (some still living) figures.

 

[GURPS]

Why do we have stupid people that write crap like this? Next step, change any name to which anyone in the entire world objects. Soon you'll have to get a government approval to name your children.

Logan 5 ... Francis 7