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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThe Washington Post<\/a> can’t find much room in their pages for news about this administration’s scandals these days, but they found space to print some stupid garbage written by some perpetually outraged Leftist Simon Waxman of the Boston Review<\/a>. I guess Simon was one of the millions of guilt-ridden Liberals who assuaged their “white guilt” by opposing the name of that team of US footballers in the nation’s capitol.<\/p>\n Now, that they’ve gained a foothold on that issue, it’s time to find something else to make themselves feel better. In Simon’s case, he wants the military to dump the Indian names from their arsenal. You know, names like Apache, Comanche, Chinook, Lakota, Cheyenne Black Hawk and Kiowa helicopters. Also the Tomahawk missile and he’s also upset that the hunt for bin Laden was Operation Geronimo.<\/p>\n 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 \u2014 the conquered tribes of this land were not rivals but victims, cheated and impossibly outgunned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Don’t forget, Simon, the 2d Infantry Division is the “Indian Head Division”. Their patch;<\/p>\n I’m guessing that the names were given out of respect for the warriors that our fore-bearers had for the fighting prowess of their enemies and also their allies. Unfortunately for Simon, the military is about war fighting, and the Indian Wars are part of our history, and our culture. But Simon, to fortify his argument, draws from that great American philosopher, Noam Chomsky;<\/p>\n Noam Chomsky has clarified the moral stakes in provocative, instructive terms: \u201cWe might react differently if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes \u2018Jew\u2019 and \u2018Gypsy.\u2019 \u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Nice straw man, Noam and Simon. No comparison. Unless you’re a guilt-ridden Liberal hack trying to convince other guilt-ridden Liberals that words are sticks and stones, and that words are strictly how guilt-ridden Liberals define them.<\/p>\n You know what offends me, what words I think would make my life more pleasant if I never heard again? Just about everything that Liberals think I need “fighting for”. Most of all, what with all of the problems in the world, I think we can do without pencil-necked dorks who worry more about language than they do about solving those problems. In fact, I’d like to see the Washington Redskins become the Washington Pencil-Necked Dorks, to honor all of the Simon Waxmans of the world.<\/p>\n Thanks to the twenty or so folks who sent the link to me this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"Indianhead](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Indianhead-Division-272x300.jpg\")
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