FCC Considers Banning ‘Redskins’ From Public Airwaves

" Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

 

Oh please....will you people put a cap on it. You know damn good & well this a ridiculous issue that's being hyped by the PC media police and small group of the "offended" and if you don't, then catch up. And if the FCC decides to put their hammer down it'll be because of political pressure from that whining PC crowd, not because it's justified or good for the country.

 

What is obscene, indecent, and/or profane about the word redskins? The word Oklahoma is a Choctaw Indian word that means red people.

Egad's, heaven forbid, somebody file a grievance with the FCC and stop this travesty.

Just stop, this idiocy is retarded. Ooops sorry, this idiocy is mentally less advanced than normal.

 

Realize that and used FOUR as a more sensitive way to get the message across.

 

This is a stupid thing to get worked up over.

 

There are bad examples of all sports. I thought the KC/New England Monday night game was as dull as drying paint.
A good rugby game is fast paced with constant action. You'll never see everyone standing around waiting for the replay officials to make up their minds on the rugby field.

 

I personally don't think it is obscene, indecent, or profane, and I suspect the FCC will conclude likewise. However, I also think that Dan Snyder should stop being an ass and just change the name. It's only a football team. It isn't the name of a state, it's the mascot we've given to a group of guys who run around in tights on a grassy field piling on top of one another. Just let it go, Dan! Don't be such a dick!

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For example...?

 

Redneck Island, Hillbilly Handfishin, Rocket City Rednecks, My Big Redneck Wedding... want more?

 

Yeah, the FCC, like the MPAA, operates a little too arbitrarily and independently for my liking. Both are also not elected in any way, but rather somehow appointed or hired.

It's wrong in principle, and a case like this shows us how wrong these arbiters of right and wrong can go when left to their own devices.

 

If it isn't obscene, indecent, or profane, somebody needs to let it go, but it isn't the team or the owners, it's a bunch of whining fools who can't seem to get their facts straight.

In 1932, the NFL team moved to the historic Fenway Park and under the leadership of George Preston Marshall, the name was changed to ‘Redskins' in honor of then-coach Lone Star Dietz, an American Sioux. It was in tribute to a real person and his heritage.

 

Oh... you find those programs obscene, indecent, or profane? I am surprised you're so sensitive; but if you're genuinely offended then you're welcome to petition the FCC to ban the broadcast of the words "hillbilly" and "redneck."

 

Right but see it wouldn't do any good. Because it's okay to be racist towards whitey. That's the entire point.

 

Great! Then there should be little opposition to changing the name to the Lone Stars! That's what the rest of us would consider a compromise.

 

Of course what you're saying is total speculation because the FCC hasn't ruled anything about "Redskins" and no one has petitioned them on "hillbilly" or "redneck."

 

This is getting silly now. I am all for boycotts and public pressure but when the government starts bullying I draw the line. This is no different than when Chicago tried to ban Chick Fil A at the behest of gay rights activists.

They have chewing tobacco called Red Man. Is the DEA or FDA going to get involved with that? This is just getting obnoxious now.

 

I hear ya and I'm sure given enough time and persistence I could probably come to like it to some degree, but I'm just not interested in spending the time to acquire the taste, so to speak.

Kinda the same for European racing, like formula 1. It's radically different than American racing and although I like motrosports in general, the minutia of much of the European racing doesn't interest me, or I find it tedious. I'll still watch it some times, but I never take the time to keep track of the rules, who is winning in the points, etc.

It has nothing to do with being anti-European, or anti anything. I grew up in this country on this country's forms of sports. I tried others and even lived in Europe for a number of years and have nothing against them. I just prefer American sports, specifically football and motor sports.

 

So it took 82 years for someone to get offended?

Gotta be some kind of record <snort>

 

These sports commentators and tv stations should take it all the way to the Supreme Court. This will NEVER pass muster. The federal gov't cannot stop people from saying a word because THEY don't like it or think it's not politically correct.

IF I got to BAN everything I didn't care for....then the liberals would hardly be able to talk.

 

Well, again... We're talking about Washington DC. They should be called the RED COATS

 

trojans vs the four skins.. lol

 

I have mixed felling, if the team wanted to call themselvs the N-word, I would object, but that is because I know it is offensive

if red skins is offensive, then change it, but is it offensive, the team enjoys being called the redskins, so they are not being disrespectful

would this bee off the table too

the Jew Bears, the Christian GayLords, the Muslim Muskrats, the....

....I would say yes

just change it so we can move on.....

 

Remember the good ol' days when you could go over to your neighbor's house and ask him nicely not to play his music too loud when your kids were napping, and he'd say, "Sure, no problem!" because that was the neighborly thing to do? Nowadays if you ask that of your neighbor he gets incensed and acts like a dick saying he has the "right" to play whatever he wants as loudly as he wants. Then you have to be a dick and take the issue up with your local government, who then passes an ordinance banning music that exceeds a certain decibel level at certain times of day, and then your dick neighbor gets issued a citation and finally moves out... when all he had to do in the first place was turn down his (*)(*)(*)(*)ing radio for a couple hours a day and everyone would be cool.

This whole issue could be similarly resolved with respectful, good-neighborly behavior. But instead, Dan Snyder is being the dick neighbor and refuses to change his team's name because it's his "right" to keep the name as it is. Yes, it is his right; but it's also a just the name of a football team that some people find offensive and many others find embarrassing and ignorant for a team hosted in the nation's capital. Why can't he just be the bigger man and change the name?

 

While I agree that the word "Redskins" has lost its derogatory weight over the years, this issue has nothing to do with the US Constitution, this solely an FCC issue on public issue policies, period.