"English Only"? Okay ... give up your sports team names ...

[zbdent]

bet the righties would scream about how that's PC then ...

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. LOL! Good point! And city names and state names. Like "Texas".

[demigoddess]

2. I agree, and then perhaps we should tell them that a lot of english words

are really french!! That should really set them back a few steps!!!

[yardwork]

5. Take a look at how many place names in the U.S. are Spanish!

Spanish-speaking people have been in this part of the world for a loooooooong time. That's why we have Florida and California.

[MADem]

6. Or French, or Indian

http://freespace.virgin.net/john.cletheroe/usa_can/places/french.htm

Detroit, Montpelier, Terre Haute, Vermont!!!

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/aihmnames1.html

Kentucky, Oklahoma. Connecticut, Massachusetts, Alabama, Alaska, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota...and the beat goes ON....

[zbdent]

10. Hmm ... What part of England did "Limbaugh" come from?

and, for that matter, I just found out that uber-conservative Barry Goldwater's family name originally was the German Goldwasser ...

[bighart]

3. Sports teams

The NCAA has already required schools to change names and mascots that may be offensive to native Americans.

[yardwork]

4. Welcome to DU!

I think that was the OP's point. If it is "silly" to make sports teams change their names, as so many right-wingers insist, then it is equally silly to insist that everybody speak and read "English only."

[zbdent]

9. But the Washington Redskins still have their team of lawyers

keeping the right happy with cries of "PC!"

[jaksavage]

7. Racism by any other name

It is just keeping a segment of our society uncomfortable.
Divided we follow.

What about San Diego, Rio Grande, santa rosa, la jolla, los alamos, albequerque, and all the rest

these people are idiots
loco en la cabeza
faka vale vale
dum kopf
only one oar in the water

ugh
when will we get to the important things

[Solon]

8. Its called creating a problem, and making it an issue...

No offense to anyone who is actually for this "English Only" BS, but I don't see what problem this "English only" shit is supposed to solve. Can someone enlighten me please?