Alternative name for the Redskins

Originally posted by crake49:

Originally posted by AmpLee:
Taking Christmas trees down in an airport is not the same thing as changing racist team names. The whole Pandora's box argument is a straw man used from everything from equality in marriage to now changing racist names. I can see the future already, we'll be a society of people married to toasters and decorations will be illegal. Give me a friggin' break.

Thank you and right on the money. If Native Americans think the term Redskins is a racist term (and of course it's probably the most racist name in all of professional sports), then they're the first ones we should listen to on this. This entire "slippery slope" or "politically correct" argument is just a lame diversion that allows people to live with this kind of nonsense. "Redskins" has it's origin firmly placed in the long-running historical American project some of us know as genocide. There are a couple offensive names for Jews they used in Europe as they were trying to commit genocide on them and I'm guessing that if we had a professional team with those names peoples' heads would explode. And I don't give two s**ts about somebody who isn't offended or who doesn't think people should care about this kind of thing. So what? Some things are just offensive and if some people can't see that, it's their problem.

Originally posted by mod:

Originally posted by boast:


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f**k... you win

Originally posted by VDpwndMjenkins:

Good, im glad the patent office made that decision.When other official stances are taken against that offensive term ill be glad then also.

Dan Snyder is a insensitive,defiant douchebag.

Washington

Originally posted by fryet:
Actually, it is your problem. You can try and create an offense-free world, or you can learn to suck it up and accept that people do things that are offensive, and they are free to do so. Don't patronize the Redskins if you find the name offensive, but don't expect everyone to agree with you.

Originally posted by VDpwndMjenkins:
Good, im glad the patent office made that decision.When other official stances are taken against that offensive term ill be glad then also.

Dan Snyder is a insensitive,defiant douchebag.

Originally posted by Matt94520:
I got it people. The Washington Wombats!

Originally posted by RicetoYoung:

Originally posted by VDpwndMjenkins:
Good, im glad the patent office made that decision.When other official stances are taken against that offensive term ill be glad then also.

Dan Snyder is a insensitive,defiant douchebag.

Funny how the majority of people "Offended" by the name "Redskins" aren't Native Americans, they are white liberals. They are being "offended for" Native Americans. They think they are "doing good" by trying to get the name changed.

You really want to Do good with Native Americans? How about you donate money to them so they can restore land or help them build schools or something. Do something that actually benefits them instead of changing a name a majority of Native Americans don't care about.