OT - The Washington Redskins

remydat said:

No actually you initially claimed no one said anything for 80 years. It had to be pointed out to you that people have been complaining since the 60s.

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Frigidus said:

Most of the complaining about the name is coming from upper middle class white people that don't want to come off as racist. They're the left wing version of the Christian moralists.

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DrGonzo said:

Yeah, here are some of those middle class whites protesting:

http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/23910637/change-the-name-protesters-march-on-metrodome

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DrGonzo said:

Yeah, here are some of those middle class whites protesting:

http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/23910637/change-the-name-protesters-march-on-metrodome

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remydat said:

No actually you initially claimed no one said anything for 80 years. It had to be pointed out to you that people have been complaining since the 60s.

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Packer Fan said:

NO! YOU'RE WRONG!

Now, Remy, savior of the World, when did you bring it to our attention?

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Packer Fan said:

Nothing in 9 years is going to change the origin of the word redskin. What can change is public perception due to crying. Is it right or wrong to use redskin as the mascot name? I don't know. But you really can't tell me that in 9 years we have evolved so much as humans to now decide that a word created 100's of years ago is now more wrong. It's stupid. We all just woke up and realized we were being racist assholes for 80 years? No, we turned into a bunch of PC morons.

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remydat said:

The first protests occured in 1968 by the National Congress of American Indians ie after the civil rights movement made it relatively safe to oppose the white man. The fact the white man has ignored these protests for 45 years doesn't make the term any more appropriate. It just means that people will accept ignorance/racism because of tradition.

And in case you didn't know, from 1930 to the 1960s, America was openly racist. So no, people didn't just wake up 80 years later and determine Redskin was offensive. It was always offensive but the racists in the 1930s to 1960s just didn't give a shit well because they were racist. You might as well ask why the KKK never protested the use of the word N***er. Sheer genius.

It's like you are completely oblivious to American history. Like you think everyone including Native Americans were living in bliss and loved the name and only now in 2013 decided it was a problem.

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Packer Fan said:

That is, even if 100 as opposed to 30. That is 0.0000003135 of the US population. Now I know the Native Americans are a minority but seriously? They don't fucking care.

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