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[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Many people in the DC area purchase tickets to watch a football team that has a racial epithet for its name. If you want to find people supporting a racist organization, they are a lot closer to home than Texas.

Do you honestly believe that people buying tickets to a Redskins game are cognizant of or intent on supporting a racist organization? I think the name of the team should certainly be changed, but that does not mean that the organization itself in 2011 practices racism, and it does not mean that a ticket buyer is actively supporting a "racist organizaion". Do you thoroughly research every company that you but products form to make sure they follow your pure ideals in all of theor hiring, advertising and business practices? I am not a Redskins fan at all by the way, and I have never purchased a ticket or anything else form the team, but I think your comparison of this to Perry's situation is silly.

I absolutely think that the name of the local football team is comparable to the name of Perry's hunting camp. You probably don't consider the team's name a big deal. Perry probably didn't consider the name of his camp to be a big deal either. After all, that was it's traditional name. Why change tradition? Perry probably no more thought his leasing that camp was racist then people buying tickets think that is racist. I absolutely think it is hypocritical to be critical of one but not the other.

Yeah, you are right. The two situations are exactly the same. I am going next door to tell my neighbor's 8 year old son that he is a racist because he wears a Redskins jersey. Thank you.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:
Yeah, you are right. The two situations are exactly the same. I am going next door to tell my neighbor's 8 year old son that he is a racist because he wears a Redskins jersey. Thank you.

The boy is wearing a shirt with a racial epithet on it. You seem not to care. It's actually you, not your 8-year-old neighbor, that has a lot in common with Perry. He probably felt the same way about the name of his camp as you do about the name of the team. No big deal and nobody who thinks so should be taken seriously.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Yeah, you are right. The two situations are exactly the same. I am going next door to tell my neighbor's 8 year old son that he is a racist because he wears a Redskins jersey. Thank you.

The boy is wearing a shirt with a racial epithet on it. You seem not to care. It's actually you, not your 8-year-old neighbor, that has a lot in common with Perry. He probably felt the same way about the name of his camp as you do about the name of the team. No big deal and nobody who thinks so should be taken seriously.

How do you know if I have anything at all in common with Rick Perry or not? You seem to be an unbelievably judgmental person, who sees the world completely in black and white, with no gray areas . I have a feeling I could accurately predict your point of view on any issue you name, which is actually a sign of closed-mindedness on your part.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Yeah, you are right. The two situations are exactly the same. I am going next door to tell my neighbor's 8 year old son that he is a racist because he wears a Redskins jersey. Thank you.

The boy is wearing a shirt with a racial epithet on it. You seem not to care. It's actually you, not your 8-year-old neighbor, that has a lot in common with Perry. He probably felt the same way about the name of his camp as you do about the name of the team. No big deal and nobody who thinks so should be taken seriously.

How do you know if I have anything at all in common with Rick Perry or not? You seem to be an unbelievably judgmental person, who sees the world completely in black and white, with no gray areas . I have a feeling I could accurately predict your point of view on any issue you name, which is actually a sign of closed-mindedness on your part.

You are clearly displaying what you have in common. Perry had no problem leasing a camp that had a name containing a racial epithet. You have no problem with a football team that has a name containing a racial epithet. Perry at least acknowledges that his camp's name was unacceptable. You make no such acknowledgement about the team's name. Make of that what you will.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Many people in the DC area purchase tickets to watch a football team that has a racial epithet for its name. If you want to find people supporting a racist organization, they are a lot closer to home than Texas.

Do you honestly believe that people buying tickets to a Redskins game are cognizant of or intent on supporting a racist organization? I think the name of the team should certainly be changed, but that does not mean that the organization itself in 2011 practices racism, and it does not mean that a ticket buyer is actively supporting a "racist organizaion". Do you thoroughly research every company that you but products form to make sure they follow your pure ideals in all of theor hiring, advertising and business practices? I am not a Redskins fan at all by the way, and I have never purchased a ticket or anything else form the team, but I think your comparison of this to Perry's situation is silly.

This is exactly the attitude I've been battling with Washington fans for years. You "think the name of the team should certainly be changed" but you're ok sitting by and letting it just be regardless. In what world does this mean anything but that you are actively supporting said offensive name with this passive attitude?

[Anonymous]

Wished I could take credit for this one, “Washington Post editor goes hunting up at ‘Redskinsrock.’”