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| John Banzhaf |
Snyder's Red Zebra Broadcasting owns seven radio stations.
Banzhaf signaled last week that he was teeing up a challenge to one or all the stations, and followed through Tuesday with the challenge to Snyder's Washington outlet.
According to Banzhaf, his challenge is based in part on the argument by former FCC officials and others that the term is a racial slur and that "the unnecessary and repeated on-air use of that derogatory racist word is contrary to current federal law and akin to broadcasting obscenity." Unlike indecency, which is allowed but must be confined to the overnight hours--10 p.m. to 6 a.m.--there is no safe harbor for obscenity.
Banzhaf also argues that the term constitutes hate speech and cites studies showing racially derogatory words related to Indians can cause "real physical harm, including beatings, bullying and ostracism.
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The term Redskins is no longer even a common term. No one refers to Native Americans in a group as "a bunch of Redskins"....just as Native Americans don't refer to white people as "palefaces". It's only derogatory if it's used in a derogatory way. The only reference we have to Redskins today is when referring to a bad football team.
ReplyDeleteThe N word is different. It's commonly used (though almost exclusively by African Americans).
The two words have nothing to do with one another.