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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Aren't they a marginalized minority group due to their small population and not because a football team uses the name "Redskins"?
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The name "Redskins" isn't the cause of their marginalization, but the rules are different when making a caricature of a group that has the power to define itself than when the group is relatively powerless against the majority.
Having a team called the Yankees located where the majority of the fans are Yankees is very different than having teams called the Redskins and the Indians located where a tiny fraction of the fans are Native Americans.
For a better comparison, imagine if a CFL team was named the Yankees and had a stereotypical gun toting obese American for a mascot. Or if, instead of the Vancouver Canucks, it was the Nashville Canucks, with an igloo dwelling, moose f***ing, polite lumberjack as a mascot. And then, every time the Canucks scored, the fans did the lumberjack chop, pretending to chop something down while chanting with an over-the-top, mocking Canadian accent. And then imagine that the history of Americans in Canada or of Canadians in the U.S. was similar to the history of Native Americans in North America. Then, maybe the names that you're talking about would be a fair comparison to the use of Native American imagery in sports.