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Originally Posted by Itse
You know, just because some stupid things have been done in the past doesn't mean that all things from the past is stupid. See how that goes?
Also, repeating over and over how it's "common sense" that a sports team called Redskins is a terrible thing and other people just don't understand doesn't actually make any of it true.
I really don't see a big difference to a team called Canucks. Yes, there is a difference, but I don't see a big difference.
And you know what is really racist behaviour by the way? A bunch of whiteys claiming they can speak for every other race and be the judges of what is offensive what is not. White supremacy complex at it's worst. Unless I missed something, there is zero proof in this thread that the native American in significant numbers, or any numbers actually, find these team names offensive. Just a bunch of white people talking to each other about stuff that isn't really up to them.
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Yeah a bunch of whiteys claiming they speak for every other race and being the judges of what is offensive and what is not, is what this is about. A bunch of whiteys went ahead and used FN people as mascots and used their names to embellish their franchises without consulting the people involved. That more or less put them as less then human or as characterizations that weren't complementary. That they haven't spoken up much, doesn't take into consideration that they have a lot of worse problems to deal with, like just being considered full partners in our society which after years of being demeaned, they have had a hard time speaking up until recently.
Sitting back across the ocean Europeans often have this idealized view of the natives here and don't realize how they have been treated over the years. I don't know how this will turn out but yeah, the First Nations people should be the ones who decide and the Washington Redskins team shouldn't have any say about it.