Thursday, October 09, 2014
Is "redskin" an obscene word?
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced the body's consideration on Tuesday of censoring the word "Redskins" on the public airwaves.
"There are a lot of names and descriptions that were used over time that are inappropriate today," FCC chairman Tom Wheeler told reporters, according to Reuters, on a conference call. "And I think the name that is attributed to the Washington football club is one of those."
The consideration of a ban stems from a petition brought to the commission by George Washington University law professor John Banzhaf to revoke the license of Washington, DC-area radio station WWXX-AM, a sports outlet owned by Redskins owner Daniel Snyder. Banzhaf claims the team's name amounts to an obscenity.
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This Banzhaf guy is an activist pure and simple. Do a search on him.
I'm assuming that this will include banning redskin potatoes as well.
and redskin peanuts, too!
So much for freedom of speech. The suppression of first amendment rights continues and the liberals are betting that no one will get to the Supreme Court to challenge them.
White House...as racist as potatoes. smh
The best argument against this is simply: "If you're going to deem "Redskins" to be obscene, then obviously you *must* consider "nigger" to be even so, right? So please ban that word, too. Then 90% of rap, er, "music" would have to go.
Annon 10:14 Get used to living under a socialists Dictator like Obama Socialists total'y reject free speech
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