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Taosman said:
Why does Fungo where a mask?
What is he hiding from?
Is he a "super hero"?
Is he a robber?
Can I shoot him if I'm "standing my ground" outside of Florida?
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Taosman said:
Why does Fungo where a mask?
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Well we all have a face
That we hide away forever
And we take them out and show ourselves
When everyone has gone
Some are satin some are steel
Some are silk and some are leather
They're the faces of the stranger
But we love to try them on

What is he hiding from?
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A better question....what isn't he hiding from?

Is he a "super hero"?
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Hardly. A "meh villain" at best. At BEST.

Is he a robber?
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Is stealing panties considered robbery?

Can I shoot him if I'm "standing my ground" outside of Florida?
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No jury would convict you. You'd probably get a medal!
 
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Are military nicknames and operation names using Indian heroes racist?

Here's an opinion piece from WaPO. Have at it.


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The U.S. military’s ongoing slur of Native Americans

By Simon Waxman June 26
Simon Waxman is managing editor of Boston Review.

Resistance to the Washington Redskins team name has ebbed and flowed over the years, but thanks in part to letters from 50 senators to the team’s owner, Dan Snyder, and last week’s decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to rescind the team’s trademark registration, the campaign to get rid of it has renewed urgency.

-skipped more ranting about the Redskins-

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.
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http://m.washingtonpost.com/opinion...c9a-11e3-932c-0a55b81f48ce_story.html?hpid=z3
 
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Mike80 said:
Are military nicknames and operation names using Indian heroes racist?

Here's an opinion piece from WaPO. Have at it.


Opinions
The U.S. military’s ongoing slur of Native Americans




http://m.washingtonpost.com/opinion...c9a-11e3-932c-0a55b81f48ce_story.html?hpid=z3
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It seems to me that if these things are problems, then all the current geographical names that are Native American in origin but are not intended to be insulting should be excised too. Bye bye, Missouri, Mississippi, Tennessee . . . Of course, if you did that, then you'd surely be accused of being racist for erasing Native American legacies and whitewashing history. I'll concede that there is some appeal to renaming Mississippi Crossburnia or Missouri Methheadland, but I digress . . .
 
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Jagdaddy said:
It seems to me that if these things are problems, then all the current geographical names that are Native American in origin but are not intended to be insulting should be excised too. Bye bye, Missouri, Mississippi, Tennessee . . . Of course, if you did that, then you'd surely be accused of being racist for erasing Native American legacies and whitewashing history. I'll concede that there is some appeal to renaming Mississippi Crossburnia or Missouri Methheadland, but I digress . . .
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I say "fine, we'll change the names, now give back your casinos".
 
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Teams choose names that represent "power" of some sort. Lions, Tigers, Eagles, etc. But, I'm not "native" so I can't really judge the level of racism naming a team or something represents . The old "walk a mile in another man's shoes" thing.
But.
Shouldn't we be sensitive to such things out of basic human respect?
 
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I'm still pissed off that the PC crowd forced the renaming of the Baltimore Bullets. Wes Unseld just wouldn't have looked right with the stupid "Wizards" emblazoned across his jersey.

Does this relate in any way to the "Redskins" team name? No, but I needed to vent.
 
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