Bottom line:
This argument boils down to two sides.
Side A) Sports caricatures and team names can often invoke racist histories and historical methods of subjugation and power, because we disagree with treating people that way we should stop using those symbols and names.
Side B) This is the way we have historically called and represented the team therefore we should continue to do so because we have always done so.
Side B is implicitly racist because the appeal to history has no fundamental moral value.
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