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Originally Posted by dissentowner
Neither are the Blackhawks nor the Indians. You can't pick and choose here. They all need to go.
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Of course you can. It's called drawing a line, and there are many places where you can draw this one.
I don't pretend that there is a universally accepted easy way of deciding what's over the line, but I don't see how there's even a debate over whether or not the Redskins is a racist team name.
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Originally Posted by nik-
not necessarily. It's more of an indication of what was acceptable when it was founded, which is the 1940's. The United Negro College Fund was founded at the same time, still exists with that name and I don't think you'd find anyone using 'negro' as an acceptable term nowadays.
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While true, they also used the word Indian in their own ad, which is where I first noticed it. So it very much seems that at least this organization thinks this word is okay.
Which makes the Indians "not a racist name for a team", and puts it under the other category of "is it okay to use these names and images in the first place", which is a lot more complicated question, and I think there the slippery slope argument starts to be somewhat relevant.
Basicly my point is; while it's true that you can't fix everything, to me Redskins is a clear cut case.