Students Suspended for Not Using a Racial Slur - the Atlantic
The censorship battle is being fought over The Playwickian, the student newspaper of Neshaminy High School in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, northeast of Philadelphia. In October 2013, after a 14-7 vote by the student-led editorial board, the paper announced that it would no longer use the word “Redskins” because it amounted to an ethnic slur.
“Detractors will argue that the word is used with all due respect. But the offensiveness of a word cannot be judged by its intended meaning, but by how it is received,” the editorial board wrote. The paper also published a dissenting editorial written by the seven students who voted against the ban, contending that “the term reflects back to the district’s heritage; the land on which Native Americans once walked and is depicted as tribute rather than tarnish.”
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