[Ads-l] Linguistic QOTY

[Jonathan Lighter]

"To be consistent."

You gotta be kidding.

JL

On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM James Landau <
00000c13e57d49b8-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:53:00 Zone - 0500 Jonathan Lighter <
> wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>quoted:
>
> https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-debuts-incredibly-creepy-nickname-044012240.html
>
> [Trump]  said. “They don’t use the
> word chief of staff anymore because the Indians got extremely upset, but
> now the Indians actually want their name used, which is true, they never
> didn’t want it used.”
> So now Trump is saying that Native Americans are fine with being called
> "Indians" but do not want the word "Chiefs" used.To be consistent, he will
> now have to make the Kansas City football team change its name, but should
> insist the Cleveland baseball team start calling its "Indians" again and
> likewise the Washington football team should go back to being the
> "Redskins".
> James Landau
> jjjrlandau at netscape.com
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