This all too offensive! But it is not PC to complain about walking down an urban street and chronically being subjected to the F-Word, the Mother of all F-Words and N-Words being blasted from passing cars at high volume and blatantly expressed by malingerers loitering in front of liquor stores and barber shops.
When will OUR "Commissars" start to vanish from photographs and history altogether? m/r
Washington Redskins -- PC Name Change Push Will Continue | National Review Online
by GEORGE WILL September 5, 2015
Autumn, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, also is the time for the Washington Post and other sensitivity auditors to get back on — if they will pardon the expression — the warpath against the name of the Washington Redskins. The niceness police at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office have won court approval of their decision that the team’s name “may disparage” Native Americans. We have a new national passion for moral and historical hygiene, a determination to scrub away remembrances of unpleasant things, such as the name Oklahoma, which is a compound of two Choctaw words meaning “red” and “people.”
Connecticut’s state Democratic party has leapt into the vanguard of this movement, vowing to sin no more: Never again will it have a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner. Connecticut Democrats shall still dine to celebrate their party’s pedigree but shall not sully the occasions by mentioning the names of two slave owners. Because Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners have long been liturgical events for Democrats nationwide, now begins an entertaining scramble by states’ parties — Georgia’s, Missouri’s, Iowa’s, New Hampshire’s, and Maine’s already have taken penitential actions — to escape guilt by association with the third and seventh presidents.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/423610/out-redskins-and-everything-else-george-will
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