The Washington Post calls censorship of the word Redskin by Federal bureaucrats and the effective confiscation of property without due process of law a "Victory for Tolerance".
Oh Mr. Washington Post, sir I don't think that word tolerance means what you think it does. To have a tolerant society is to have one that accepts a wide range of views, lifestyles and interpretations of reality. Censoring words because they are naughty or hurt someone's feelings is intolerant. The Redskins (eek! He said The Word!) are not proposing that anything be done to reduce society's toleration of any race, creed or lifestyle they just ask that they be allowed to use language and names the way they have been used ever since the native Americans invented the word Redskin to differentiate themselves from the newly arriving white and black skinned people.
Calling a small cabal of pressure group politicos attempts to censor the English language an advance for toleration is profoundly Orwellian.
The only question is whether Wapo is the manipulator or the dupe. Decide for yourself here.
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