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Ireland call for the Washington R-words to change their name

Almaviva · 2013-09-09 20:12:03

American Football may not be the most followed sport in Ireland, but time to put pressure on the US to weed out this racist team name nevertheless. Unless they change it, support referring to them only as 'Washington' or the 'Washington Native Americans'.…

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#52 10-09-2013 9:57am

Plazaman

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I took a tomahawk to the knee in Washington once so they can feck right off if they feel insulted with their whole tourist injuring attitude.

I actually knocked over one of the Native American displays in the Natural History Museum but still, feck that.

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#53 10-09-2013 10:31am

BlatentCheek

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OP I love how you worded the poll so that anyone disagreeing with your point of view has to tick a box marked "I'm racist"

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#54 10-09-2013 10:32am

minidazzler

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The Washington Scalpers. That'll learn em for complaining.

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