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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Really it's a football team name. How important is it really? The term Yankee is a derogatory term as well and IMO you either take all these names tongue and cheek or you have to change them all as I'm not a big fan of picking and choosing which derogatory term takes precedence over the other and that's basically what's being asked here.
Personally I feel any new professional sports franchises obviously shouldn't be choosing new names based on derogatory terms but I'm not a big fan of changing historical franchise names just to make a very small group of people happy. When it comes to being politically correct I feel there's a line where enough is enough because if you end up trying to make everyone happy you end up making nobody happy.
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So your POV is that folks should take racist terms "tongue in cheek".
Is there much disagreement at all that the Redskins is anything but a dated and offensive name? We can debate where the line is but is it not easy to agree that this one specific name is particularly over the line? So why not just solve that one.
And thanks for bolding a typo in my post. The arguments in this thread weren't quite immature enough and needed to be dragged down.