Thanks Calico Jack for the link...
via Washington Post.
I don't quite know what to make of this train of thought. I do know this....the attack on everything manly, the desire to destroy every thing that points to a proud martial history...and even the honoring of 'vanquished' people is now front and center for the progressives in the US>
Notice that Florida State is never mentioned in these diatribes of indignation? The reason is simple. The Seminole Nation rightfully understood that they were being honored by the use of their name by that university.
I've noticed something else.
Progressives thrive on social chaos. If there is no issue for them to latch onto then they will invent one. Perhaps I'm a neaderthal but this is another invented issue. The fact that our borders are wide open, the economy is in the ditch, ISIS is rampaging throughout the Middle East, Africa is on fire and the unemployment rate is waaaaay too high is no where on their radar screens.
Oh and as far as Chomsky clarifying...he did not. The Luftwaffe didn't call their airplanes Jew or Gypsy because they did not respect those peoples. The US military does respect the warrior culture and implements of Native Americans.
Why else would we name our fiercest weapons of war after them?
via Washington Post.
In the United States today, the names Apache, Comanche, Chinook, Lakota, Cheyenne and Kiowa apply not only to Indian tribes but also to military helicopters. Add in the Black Hawk, named for a leader of the Sauk tribe. Then there is the Tomahawk, a low-altitude missile, and a drone named for an Indian chief, Gray Eagle. Operation Geronimo was the end of Osama bin Laden.These people are operating in a totally different world.
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 — the conquered tribes of this land were not rivals but victims, cheated and impossibly outgunned..... Noam Chomsky has clarified the moral stakes in provocative, instructive terms: “We might react differently if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes ‘Jew’ and ‘Gypsy.’ ”
I don't quite know what to make of this train of thought. I do know this....the attack on everything manly, the desire to destroy every thing that points to a proud martial history...and even the honoring of 'vanquished' people is now front and center for the progressives in the US>
Notice that Florida State is never mentioned in these diatribes of indignation? The reason is simple. The Seminole Nation rightfully understood that they were being honored by the use of their name by that university.
I've noticed something else.
Progressives thrive on social chaos. If there is no issue for them to latch onto then they will invent one. Perhaps I'm a neaderthal but this is another invented issue. The fact that our borders are wide open, the economy is in the ditch, ISIS is rampaging throughout the Middle East, Africa is on fire and the unemployment rate is waaaaay too high is no where on their radar screens.
Oh and as far as Chomsky clarifying...he did not. The Luftwaffe didn't call their airplanes Jew or Gypsy because they did not respect those peoples. The US military does respect the warrior culture and implements of Native Americans.
Why else would we name our fiercest weapons of war after them?
It's much better than that. Libs get to feel smug about their support of the Native American, while, conveniently ignoring the rampant poverty & substance abuse problems.
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Check this out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9tvdjDAr1U
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This is for real Sol? This is not some pretty low not funny joke?
ReplyDeleteThey have a problem with solid warrior names for a weapon systems? Invite them to Poland where most of the military equipment take names from flowers, plants and female names. I don't joke, really they have a shit tons of that type of names. There was even an open letter from the Army to military equipment company that they should give weapons some more serious warrior like names.
I even remember how Yanks grunts lough when we told them about one of old missile ati-tank system. The 9K111 Fagot as we call them in short the "Fag"... you know what I mean.
Geronimo is the name of a warrior who was called Jerome by the Mexican's his real name was Taking the water brashly.
ReplyDeleteApache is Spanish the word is Mapache or Raccoons, the tribe calls itself the Dineh or the people.
Comanche is Ute and means Enemy, they call themselves Shoshone, or The Grass house people.
Cheyenne is Lakota it means red talker, the Lakota spoke white talker, they called themselves Tsisitsa it means "those who are like this" Lakota is Teton or it means Prairie Dwellers, called Sioux by their enemies it means Snake.
Kiowa, means shaved head on the right side and it's blackfoot sign language they call themselves Ka-igu or Principle people.
Tomahawk means "cut by tool" and it's Powhatan.
Redskin refers to the practice observed by Columbus of the Carib or Taino/Arawakan Indians of painting their bodies with red paint. Got That? Caribbean people, red paint, Columbus, 500 years ago. Carib is European slang for cannibal. the redpainted warriors would go out and capture or kill humans and eat them.
Braves? please people, Braves is Middle english, old french, old spanish old latin and means Brave ones, or in Latin Barbus or barbarian.
It's not even an Indian name!
Even the Native American names are not in many cases Native but bastardized European or the name another tribe gave even a weather phenomenon.
Like the Atlanta Crackers named for the southern cowboy who cracked whips all up and down Georgia and Florida to move their cattle, or redneck, which came during 1640 in Scotland, Coven tors, who signed their names in blood on manifesto's and wore red scarves around their necks to show their objection to the Scottish ruling class, also known as "Presbyterians" shipped to the America's as undesirables took root in the south and continued their "redneck" ways. Got That? REDNECK means PRESBYTERIAN.
Names, it's all bullshit thought up by liberals who never read a book on names and their meanings.
here is another name "LIBERAL" Folks who have absolutely nothing else to do but make up shit and bitch and whine.
Chinook? It's the name of the people who lived in the region where a wind would blow at one point in the year and melt all the snow rapidly, the name means "snow eater" So, the CH-47 Snow Eater is one bad ass heavy lifter Army helicopter.
ReplyDeleteThat beats the AH-61 Raccoon helicopter Gunship though!
BLACKHAWK?
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A bird of prey it feeds on various small vertebrates, eggs but mostly on crabs.
A mainly coastal bird of the Americas and a protected species.
It lives in mangrove swamps, estuaries and adjacent woodlands.
Blackhawk? It's a bird people, a bird. And Black Hawk is an English name.
And yet no one ever gets up in arms over the Vikings, Trojans, Vandals, Lumberjacks, Fighting Irish, Boilermakers, Crusaders, Paladin, Cavaliers, or Celtics. When you get into Rugby you get names like Templars as well.
ReplyDeleteAnd from 2002 to 2012 the U of Northern Colorado had their "Fightin' Whities" basketball team, which made so much money selling team paraphernalia that they managed to set up an endowment and scholarship....
A claim of "exploitation" is simply someone seeking to claim continuing victim status on really shaky ground.
Exactly because "whites can't be exploited". they need to "check their privilege" (I hope whoever invented that term gets sodomized with a cactus)
DeleteLet me go barf.
When they do it I hope they use a Trojan! haha
DeleteI'll be here all night folks!
This is getting beyond ridiculous! WTF!? People are way too dam sensitive, AND yes, liberals/progressives need to stir shit up constantly. You gain power from controversy. That's partly why you won't see racism go away. Some will need it, use it, to their advantage...while others are simply just racist assholes. This is paying homage to the warriors and tribes that are a part of our country's history! I can just see this author's heart bleeding for all the causes he's fought and is going to fight... What a jackass!
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