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A Sense of Doubt blog post #2361 - Racial Slurs Are not Tributes or Fitting Team Names
Do you remember when people cared about other people?
Do you remember when people cared about other people?
Can we get back to that way of life instead of this incessant hate?
The thing about the term "woke" is that it means the state of existence after "waking up." Thus, all these conservative wing nuts who are trying to make "woke" a dirty word are NOT AWAKE.
Isn't being awake better than being not awake? "Not awake" is not necessarily asleep, it just means stunted, not activated, stagnant, closed off, shut down, powered off, and generally lacking in actualization.
I am happy to say that I am "woke." I would rather be "woke" than "not woke."
I am also happy to care about other people, which is a thing we all need to practice.
Outrage is the new opioid for the masses. Outrage will not get us anywhere as a human species.
I have decided to eliminate the term "political correctness" from my vocabulary. It's the same campaign of hate against caring about others through use of language that is currently being touted against being "woke."
When I avoid racial slurs, use the pronoun someone has asked me to use for them, or avoided hate speech that has reached acceptable levels by some, I am not being "politically correct"; I am simply exercising sensitive and loving life practice in being kind to others, in being gracious to others, in responding positively and not negatively to the universe, in showing EMPATHY and COMPASSION to others, especially those who suffer attacks, hate, and violence for being who they are, experiences I do not have because I am privileged to be in the hegemonic class, sex/gender, and race.
It is not politically correct to avoid using "ghetto" as synonym for "cheap, rundown, shoddy, gross, etc." I am not being "woke" to use the term "sleeveless t-shirt" rather than "wife-beater." Really? We're going to call a piece of clothing something that disgusting??? The code for that merchandise at some mall stores is "WB" for wife-beater. I am not being "correct" or "political" to refrain from using the word "gay" as a synonym for "stupid." For all these things and more, I am simply being kind, showing empathy, being a good person, following the teachings of Christ (and many other religious messiahs and icons), and I do not even consider myself a Christian.
And yet so many CINOs (Christians In Name Only) do all these things and more.
It's why many love Donald Trump because he "speaks his mind."
What little of it there is...
And so the soon to no longer be CLEVELAND INDIANS.
True, the Cleveland Baseball team was named for a Native American on the roster when the team was named from the "Cleveland Spiders" (and I wish they had gone back to THAT name) to the "Indians" because of the way Louis Sockalexis was knocking the cover off the ball at the time.
Yes, true.
But if 10,000 native people whose ancestors were decimated in an intentional campaign of genocide against them and are still murdered in alarming ways today with little interest from the "white" criminal justice system, if these people say "hey, that's a hateful name, you should change it." Then, uh, let's change it, regardless of the tribute origins.
If I officially renamed the Republican Party the GOAP -- Grande Olde Assholes Party -- and made ASSHOLE logos for their hats and referred to them all the time as ASSHOLES and banged asshole war drums and wore asshole headdresses at their Asshole games that MAYBE these ASSHOLES would say "hey, that's kind of hateful to us, maybe you should stop that."
I do call them ASSHOLES a lot. It's wrong of me, even if they are BEING ASSHOLES. Just like my play on RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) with CINOs earlier in this post.
Yeah, I am not immune. I have trouble managing my outrage.
But come on, man... doesn't this just MAKE SENSE.
The Washing Redskins -- an even more hateful and racistly-charged name -- dropped the Redskins, banned "headdress" costumes at their games, and are the WFT -- Washington Football Team -- until they think of a new and better name.
And so the ATALNTA BRAVES and their racist "tomahawk chop" are the only Native American slur team left in professional sports at the major league level. I do not presume to know all the minor and G-league team names, so...
Besides, INDIANS has always been a misnomer. COLUMBUS did not find INDIA and so the native peoples here were not and are not INDIANS for FUCK'S SAKE.
Here's some WONKETTE attention to this topic by my favorite Wonkette scribe, Ms. Robin Pennacchia.
Word!
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2108.05 - 10:10
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2108.05 - 10:10
- Days ago = 2225 days ago
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