Native American Group sues Washington Commanders over erasure of 'Redskins' identity

What is the "cancel culture narrative " of sports the article is referring to?

Regardless of this particular group's opinion, part of the push to change the name was from Native American groups as one of those groups is also being sued

 

Native Americans think the commanders is a stupid name

didn’t America commanders ruin the native Americans ?
@basso

also you remove a Native American icon on the helmet

 

I swear I lose brain cells every time I read @basso or @tinman posts...keep not voting for Trump...lol.

 

I don’t doubt this group exists and have actual Native Americans but I doubt they actually have a lot of supports. My under standing is that “Redskins” was a slur maybe not quite as bad as N word regarding black Americans but still not complimentary and definitely not something that Native Americans came up themselves.

This is probably more of an example thet you can find people who want attention and to sue about anything these days.

 

I understand that. 67% of Native Americans who strongly identify as Native American were offended by the name
https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/02/04/native-mascots-survey
Apparently Redskin wasn't a derogatory term as bad some of this nation's history is on race that would be pretty bold for a franchise and why would you name a team a derogatory term to begin with, that defeats the purpose of a mascot.

Regardless I disagree that cancel-culture caused the name change. Cancel culture is a recent phenomenon.

 

Actually it' was not a slur. As I stated earlier why would you name a team an insult? Or it wasn't thought of as a slur, what racist would want to be the ni##ers or root for them? But regardless when the movement to change the name started it wasn't liberal groups trying defend Native Americans, it was Native Americans who regardless felt being a Mascot was demeaning

 

It was widely used but was considered a slur. Maybe not as much as the N-word but along the lines of referring to Asians as “yellow”.

 

It was slang,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redskin

Again why would you name your team something you look down upon?

 

They should have kept the native America theme
Look at the Chiefs and Florida State Seminoles

could have called them the Comanche or Apache etc
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Regardless the name is terrible same with the Cleveland baseball team

the icon was offensive but not the name

 

I get you and bushwick bill , Astro321 and all the non contributing members confused too

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it’s like you guys having 25 pronouns instead of non contributing member

 

If Washington really wants a name that reflects their city

then they should called themselves the BULLETS
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Wasn't Lamar HS renamed from Redskins too?

 

God, imagine continuing to care about this

 

I am 99.999% sure this group is connected to the Redskins owner. It's too obvious of a ploy. I bet $50 they don't even have their own email server.

 

It was a term of loving affection.

 

Slang terms often have a derogatory or not complimentary basis. Further certain terms
Ny historical association become derogatory. For example “Chinaman” which has become associated with a dated expression for Asian Americans.

also the team wasn’t named by Native Americans and a lot of teams have been named after things that aren’t considered flattering but are adopted for other reasons. For example “Sooner” originally wasn’t a complimentary term for Oklahomans.