Racism, P99, Redskins, Political Correctness, Derubael

[Fael]

In light of the patent office recent decision to terminate the intellectual property rights of the Washington Redskins franchise, I thought it was interesting that political correctness is alive and well here on P99 as well. Perhaps it is classic (See the Erudite Race).

Anyways, TMO's very own Spaniard VonHammer was informed by Derubael that his name was racist and therefore he must change it. His Shaman alt's name, Hielo Negro, means "Black Ice" Ice spanish, which is the name of a ACDC song. Because Americans still have a lot of guilt over slavery, it is apparently offensive to refer to anything by color. Hence, any use of the word black, brown, yellow, or red for identification of a people group is now considered offensive (even though those people uses it for self-identification).

Derubael apparently has taken it a step further--simply using the spanish form of black in any context whatsoever is racist (because of the history of the spanish form). I'm not sure anyone would claim it offensive if he used the name "Black Ice" for his toon.

That said, it is ironic that because of our fear of offending one group, we are willing to offend another by treating them differently, and refusing to permit them to use a spanish name, where it would be allowed if they used it in the English.

Thoughts?