{"id":8568,"date":"2013-08-08T11:10:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T11:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/08\/08\/redskin-offensive-what-about-guinea-pig\/"},"modified":"2013-08-08T11:10:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T11:10:58","slug":"redskin-offensive-what-about-guinea-pig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/08\/08\/redskin-offensive-what-about-guinea-pig\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Redskin’ Offensive? What About ‘Guinea Pig’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently<\/a>, the online magazine Slate<\/em> will no longer be referring to the Washington Redskins under that name lest some Indians take offense.  By the way, I take offense at 'native American.'  I am a native Californian, which fact makes me a native American, and I'm not now and never have been an Indian.<\/span><\/p>\n

But what about 'guinea pig'?  Surely this phrase too is a racial\/ethnic slur inasmuch as it suggests that all people of Italian extraction are pigs, either literally or in their eating habits.  Bill Loney<\/a> takes this (meat) ball and runs with it.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then there is 'coonskin cap.'  'Coon' is in the semantic vicinity of such words as: spade, blood, spearchucker, spook, and nigger.  These are derogatory words used to refer to Eric Holder's people.  In the '60s, southern racists expressed their contempt for Martin Luther King, Jr. by referring to him as Martin Luther Coon<\/em>.   Since a coonskin cap is a cap made of the skin of a coon, 'coonskin cap' is a code phrase used by creepy-assed crackers to signal that black folk ought to be, all of them, on the wrong end of a coon hunt.  <\/span><\/p>\n

'Coonskin cap' must therefore be struck from our vocabulary lest some black person take offense.<\/span><\/p>\n

But then consistency demands that we get rid of 'southern racist.'  The phrase suggests that all southerners are racists.  And we must not cause offense to the half-dozen southerners who are not racists.<\/span><\/p>\n

But why stop here?  'Doo wop' is so-called because many of its major exponents were wops such as Dion Dimucci who was apparently quite proud to be a wop inasmuch as he uses the term five times in succession  starting at :58 of this version <\/a>of 'I Wonder Why' (1958).  The old greaseball still looks very good in this 2004 performance<\/a>.  Must be all that pasta he consumes.<\/span><\/p>\n

I could go on — this is fun — but you get the drift, unless you are a stupid liberal<\/em>.  <\/span><\/p>\n

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Apparently, the online magazine Slate will no longer be referring to the Washington Redskins under that name lest some Indians take offense.  By the way, I take offense at 'native American.'  I am a native Californian, which fact makes me a native American, and I'm not now and never have been an Indian. But what about … Continue reading “‘Redskin’ Offensive? What About ‘Guinea Pig’?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-language-matters","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}