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struggle4progress

(118,338 posts) Fri Apr 15, 2016, 03:38 PM Apr 2016

UNLV Student Newspaper Says Its Own Name Is Racist (NV)

By MICHELLE BILLMAN & ASSOCIATED PRESS • 20 HOURS AGO

The student newspaper for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas says it will change its name by next spring amid claims that the school's "Rebel" moniker is racist since it refers to Confederate soldiers ...

http://kunr.org/post/unlv-student-newspaper-says-its-own-name-racist

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UNLV Student Newspaper Says Its Own Name Is Racist (NV) (Original Post) struggle4progress Apr 2016 OP

They'd know best. malthaussen Apr 2016 #1

malthaussen

(17,216 posts)

1. They'd know best.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Apr 15, 2016, 04:21 PM

Apr 2016

First time I heard that "rebel" was the exclusive property of the CSA (who didn't think they were rebels, anyway, and wouldn't have used the word). Of course, they're called "insurgents" these days.

-- Mal

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