Should we change the other offensive NFL team names too?

Proves a point wrote:

Dennis Reynolds 2.0 wrote:

Let me guess, you're white?

Let me guess, you're retarded?! I mean really are you like 1/16 native american? I've known a few and they live up their injun blood for all it is worth. Kind of like Elizabeth Warren claiming to be native...it is a disgusting practice. Like I said even the real natives don't care. Now go and do something useful with your life rather than claiming that something that happened to your great-great grandpa has made you incapable of becoming anything worthwhile.

So edgy. Don't let anyone tell you you're not going places.

Michael L. Robinson wrote:

The Guru Matt James wrote:

A significant portion of American Indians find the term Redskin offensive. A significant portion of Vikings/Giants do not feel the same way.

The law is 68 years old. They just finally enforced it by cancelling the trademark.

oh, so now the federal govt is in the business of hammering a private corp that offends a 'significant portion' (whatever the hell that means) of a certain group? Millions of Americans are extremely offended by crap the Obama regime pulls every day. Who do we see about a remedy for that? The govt office for preventing some people from being offended by some other people?

Your remedy is to vote in elections. Obama clearly won two elections, neither requiring Supreme Court involvement and both actually achieving a majority of voters.

And the fed govt isn't just NOW involved in administering trade mark law, it has been for some time.

Please stop with these ignorant posts that seek to attribute everything that you disagree with to Obama or the govt.

anapaix wrote:

Teenager wrote:

The gay mafia....are you five? The religious zealots are the real problem

You're progressive atheist god Bill Maher coined the term.

Hurts, doesn't it?

Even he sees how ridiculous it is getting sometimes.

This debate has nothing to do with religion, please don't bring your bigotry into the conversation.

Yeah i saw that episode, their whining about bigots is nothing compared to zealot social conservatives making lawmakers restrict their freedoms. NOt even REMOTELy comparable. IS calling out bigotry the mark of a bigot?

So edgy. Don't let anyone tell you you're not going places.[/quote]

Right dude...nice input. As a teen you could get away without saying anything of substance and all your dumb friends would laugh. Let me know how that goes as an adult. When you have a counter point please return. Put up or shut up.

JRK wrote:

Ending wars

Auditing the Fed

Drug War

Assassination of American citizens

Changing a football team name.

Seems right in line with a logical to-do list for America.

Ahh yes, the good old "there's serious stuff going on in the world so how dare we worry about the small stuff" logic.

I just took my son to the ice cream stand, now you made me feel guilty about it. I mean, there's a war going on and I'm friekin' enjoying ice cream??

We should stop prosecuting lesser crimes like burglaries and drunk driving too, those resources should be directed to the drug war until drugs are eradicated.

Did you know my city comes around and collects people's trash every week? I know, there's a war going on people!! That money could be used for body armor for our troops!! Let's go back to the good old days and burn our trash in barrels or feed it to the pigs.

I'd better stop posting now, I need to go and read up on today's war stories and drug-related shootings.

I always find it amusing how the "intellectual" members of the Left lump their opponents under the hardcore Neocons on the right. I think there was a miscommunication there...I am whole-heartedly OPPOSED to our World Policing and militarization, as well as the so-called war on drugs.

And as for the rest of your complaint, it will just get lost in semantics, but I'll give it a go anyway. I merely intended to say that a football team's name should not be stealing headlines and turning the sheeples' heads away from matters of actual importance that this administration continually neglects or worse, instigates.

Proves a point wrote:

Right dude...nice input. As a teen you could get away without saying anything of substance and all your dumb friends would laugh. Let me know how that goes as an adult. When you have a counter point please return. Put up or shut up.

Ouch dude.

White MEN and their inferiority complex. You guys will go through such great lengths to advocate for and upload the dehumanization of other people based on skin color and body characteristics. When will you people learn YOU are the focus of western society, good and bad. Therefore, you have got to be sensitive to marginilizing others because you can (white men have incredible POWER in the west). Power such as not being profiled on the street in a manner every other brown person does, and access to resources that are not available as easily to others.

So only white people gave dehumanized others based on skin color? Really?

Born in the 856 wrote:

The Redskins supposedly have a 25 yr waiting list for season tickets. Maybe this controversy knocked down the wait to 24 1/2 yrs, lol.

There's nothing necessary about that team having redskin for a name. It's amazing that so many people act as though they're going to lose something if the name is changed. It's just a sports team. If the name is changed folks will still flock to the games.

If the name is so honorable, why would just about everyone complaining about changing it NOT refer to Native Americans as redskins in public discourse??

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New Jersey Swamps goosed the Denver Joints this afternoon at the gorgeous Meadowlands.

In wet conditions, the Arizona Dry spent the Miami Shine on a slippery field, and the Kentucky Gala matched up well with the Atlanta Charm with thirteen minutes of overtime fare.

Out west, the black and silver of the Los Angeles Jump-Ups excelled with the high expectations of the Seattle Drift, while the San Diego Bliss warmed the Dallas Dream with two touchbacks and a showy intermission.

Or, in other words, Redskins or Raiders, Giants or Vikings, you're all still watching 300 lb. men in skintight capris touch each other with gusto.

Too dumb to rebut...revert to high school tactics.

subfive wrote:

Born in the 856 wrote:

The Redskins supposedly have a 25 yr waiting list for season tickets. Maybe this controversy knocked down the wait to 24 1/2 yrs, lol.

There's nothing necessary about that team having redskin for a name. It's amazing that so many people act as though they're going to lose something if the name is changed. It's just a sports team. If the name is changed folks will still flock to the games.

If the name is so honorable, why would just about everyone complaining about changing it NOT refer to Native Americans as redskins in public discourse??

You're right of course. But this dispute is about something else entirely. It's about a tradition and it's about freedom of speech. It's about a private business being forced to change due to political correctness. I think if I was the owner of the team, I would have given up on this. But I don't think Snyder will. I'm guessing the controversy will die down and the team name will stay the same.

I want the Redskins name to stay and a big FU to the PC crowd.

Hail to the Redskins! wrote:

I want the Redskins name to stay and a big FU to the PC crowd.

You tell 'em you rebel!

Name all teams after inoffensive and non-endangered animals, such as Ducks and Beavers. Seriously, if Redskins sticks, the Clippers' owner has a legitimate grievance.

Ok, so I have seen a couple of posts saying that redskin is a slur. Has the word redskin ever been used in history in a derogatory manner?

The WAshington team could be the

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