Forehead Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 I dunno, a boycott seems like we're just having a contest with them to see who can stick their fingers in their ears and yell the loudest. I do like the auto correct on UnWise Mike's name though. That's pretty accurate, the guy couldn't be a bigger blowhard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsGuy Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 You misunderstand me. I was not talking of the right guaranteed under the first amendment (or the 14th, which applies the rights of the 1st to the states in addition to the federal government) I was speaking of the inherent right that we all have to disagree and to speak our piece. Snyder has it, you and I have it, the Post has it. If the editorial page decides that they won't say Redskins, that is their right. I might think it is stupid, as with Boswell's continued use of "washington's football team" rather than use the name in all his columns. (I don't know if he has ever told anyone he was not going to use the name anymore, but he does not.) Let them all have their say, and we will have ours. My belief is that eventually, people will get bored with the topic. Of course, that is just my opinion. In the meantime, I will just continue to sigh and shake my head dismissively. The (Com)Post still has that right. They can still speak their peace. They have the same "bullhorn" they've always had so they, UnWise Mike, and their ilk can say the same things they have said on the subject a zillion times already. Many of us here have simply chosen to close our window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop Hammer Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 I stop reading that rag years ago. Even when I did buy it I only read the style and sports section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warskins65 Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 If a person keeps telling me lies and half truths, I tend not to listen to them or take them seriously. If a newspaper telling me lies and half truths, I tend not to read them or take them seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandyHolt Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 I kind of wish we could boycott NBC for the Bob "Ole Red Eye" Costas rant. What a tool. Cooley apparently was speaking recently at how NBC used an Oneida reservation to host a boxing venue, which I think can be presumed was a huge money maker for NBC. If NBC profited massively at what would be a cheaper venue than say Caesars Palace, perhaps one could argue they were being insensitive themselves. Cooley wanted to ask him about it, as it happened around the same time as the rant. H/T to Wethog over at HF. We can also add The NY Daily "News" to the boycott list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brooklyn FatPants Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Wait, this board is owned by Snyder? Please say that isn't true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumbo Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Wait, this board is owned by Snyder? Please say that isn't true. We are all happy to be part of one great collective. You will also be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conn Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Wait, this board is owned by Snyder? Please say that isn't true. You for real, FatPants? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boss_Hogg Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Wait, this board is owned by Snyder? Please say that isn't true. a portion of your ES membership fees go to the Daniel M Snyder Foundation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 Wait, this board is owned by Snyder? Please say that isn't true. You wanna pay the bills for this place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destino Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Everyone's favorite obsessed Snyder hater, Dave Mckenna, links to this thread in his article "Is The Redskins' "VIP" Indian Defender A Fake Indian?" http://deadspin.com/is-the-redskins-vip-indian-defender-a-fake-indian-1642991295 Apparently this thread is trumpeting One Wolf boycott the WashPo movement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEANDWARF Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 delete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingGibbs Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Going to be honest here. Most of you look a little whiny when it comes to the Post. I guess I'm in the minority when it comes to the media and NOT getting in an uproar over what they say/write/tweet etc. I don't get angry or upset over the media. I reserve those emotions for the team I root for and right now they disgust me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
War Paint Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Wait, this board is owned by Snyder? Please say that isn't true. Do not question our dear leader, the Great Snyder. We are his little Redskin children. He cares for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s0crates Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Frankly it sounds like the suppression of ideas we disagree with, which is basically censorship, which I reject on principle. I'm a little surprised that puts me in the minority, especially such a small minority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemocystem Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 What puts you, & the minority in the ummmm....minority, is the inability or unwillingness to recognize the difference between integrity driven, objective journalism vs. the ultra agendized one-sided, 100% bias, slanted, anti-Redskins drivel that comes out of that rag. I actively boycott any journalism that isn't 100% down the middle, fact based with no slant or opinions expressed. So adding WaPo to my list (which it has been already for some time now) is hardly a stretch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s0crates Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 "If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind . . . [The] peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error." J. S. Mill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destino Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Objective journalism would absolutely fry a team that has been as bad at everything as the redskins have been for 20 years, is having it's name protested, and it's owner unsuccessfully sued a blogger (I'm not calling that clown a journalist). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemocystem Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Naw...print facts...wins, losses, stats, who signed where, why they signed...sighted by sources, confirmed by a 2nd source. The minute you interject your opinion in an article...I'm done. For any reason, under any circumstance. I am a grown ass man, perfectly capable of forming my own opinion based on presented facts brought to light. I, nor anyone else, needs their opinions to be sussed out for them. To present a column with an opinion is to assume that your readers are either a ) morons who are incapable of doing so on their own, or b ) hold you, the author, in such high regard as to give a sniff what you think about a given subject. It's more offensive than any team name, or failures of said team. If I want opinions. ..I go to friends or comments sections, or message boards. When I want facts...I (used to) go to columns. Unfortunately you can't even really do that anymore. So now I tend to stick with scientific journals for my facts, & only read columns if I'm extremely bored, & have the time to drudge through 10 or so articles of differing opinions on 1 subject in order suss out which facts are mutually relevant, & then form my own opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueskin Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 This isn't censorship. You are still free to go to the Post. The First Amendment has no provision that forces a private entity to use information from any/all sources if it doesn't want to. When I refuse to allow Penthouse into my home, it's not censorship. I'm exercising my right as a father to refrain from allowing myself to generate even a small amount of revenue for Larry Flynt's empire. Which will be invested in the furthering of his goals (to debase societal morals, denegrate women, and coarsen the culture). And no, I'm not a prude. Just discerning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingGibbs Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 What puts you, & the minority in the ummmm....minority, is the inability or unwillingness to recognize the difference between integrity driven, objective journalism vs. the ultra agendized one-sided, 100% bias, slanted, anti-Redskins drivel that comes out of that rag. I actively boycott any journalism that isn't 100% down the middle, fact based with no slant or opinions expressed. So adding WaPo to my list (which it has been already for some time now) is hardly a stretch. It's a ****ing football team! Who gives a ****? It's entertaining to me. I love the banter between the writers and the fans that get offended by "the ultra agendized one-sided, 100% bias, slanted, anti-Redskins drivel" I've got news for you. Those reporters that have been "driveling" have been right about this team waaaaayyyyyy more often then not. Particularly during the Snyder era. Deny it, but it's the truth. There's nothing that is positive about this team right now. Nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MustangSteve Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 The WP use to be a great read back in the 80's era, but for the last 2 decades they have attacked not just this team, but the hometown team, a huge icon of the Nations Capital, and never 1 time had a problem with the name until a group of crybabies were raised out of the sewer to protest something that's been around for about 80 years. I can't bare to and will not read any more of their articles, They have truly earned a boycott. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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