[Vision2020] Rick Perry's Newest Problem

[Carl Westberg]

I have wondered about the continuation of the Orofino "Maniacs".  As regards Rick Perry, it will be interesting to see how he deals with the hunting camp issue when (not if) he explains it to Herman Cain in the next debate.  How nimble can he be then?

Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 07:26:10 -0700
From: godshatter at yahoo.com
To: thansen at moscow.com
CC: vision2020 at moscow.com; tiedye at turbonet.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Rick Perry's Newest Problem



  


    
    
  
  
    It makes you wonder if someday descendants of the people murdered by
    an ancient East Germanic tribe when they sacked Rome and Carthage
    might someday look in horror upon a small college town in Idaho that
    had the gall to name their sports team after their killers.

    

    Same thing with people that have been mauled by cougars or bears.

    

    Paul

    

    On 10/03/2011 07:02 AM, Tom Hansen wrote:
    
      
        
          
              Courtesy of Dr. John E. Koontz, Department of
                Linguistics, University of Colorado at:
              

              
              http://spot.colorado.edu/~koontz/faq/etymology.htm
              
                

                
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                Is squaw a bad word?
                The etymology is
                  perfectly innocent.  The problem with squaw has
                  nothing to do with its etymology.  Nigger has a
                  perfectly unobjectionable etymology in Spanish negro 'black',
                  for example.  The difficulty with nigger is that it
                  came to embody and represent a discriminatory attitude
                  toward blacks.  Similarly, the difficulty with squaw
                  is that it is associated with a discriminatory
                  attitude toward Indian people and sometimes by
                  extension toward women generally.  
                The pattern of
                  racism associated with squaw is not readily perceived
                  by many people today, especially by non-Indians,
                  perhaps because the word squaw is obsolescent, found
                  mainly  in historical literature and movies, or as a
                  fossil in placenames and expressions like squawfish, 
                  squaw dance or squaw corn (a term I actually first
                  heard used quite innocently by an Omaha man).  It
                  seems inoffensive to many people in these contexts,
                  and they don't see any point in avoiding it, even
                  though the same people would never use a form like
                  nigger, and may instinctively avoid placenames based
                  on such forms, as well as fossil expressions like
                  niggertoes and perhaps even the wholly unconnected
                  word niggardly.   
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                Another thing concerning offensive language . . .
                

                
                As many schools have reestablished school mascots,
                  so as not to seem offensive (i.e. Stanford University
                  Indians reestablished as Stanford University Cardinal)
                  . . .
                

                
                WHY haven't the Washington REDSKINS, an NFL team in
                  our nation's capitol (for God's sake!), been required
                  to establish a more appropriate mascot???
                

                  Tom
                      Hansen
                  Moscow, Idaho
                
              
            
        
      
      
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