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Originally Posted by MarchHare
I'll post the same thing I wrote in the other thread on this topic:
If the team was named the "Yellowskins" and had a Fu Manchu-esque Asain caricature for a logo, NOBODY would be defending it by appealing to history/tradition and saying how it's not really offensive. I don't see why a team named the "Redskins" with a Native American caricature for a logo is any different.
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While you may well be correct, one does wonder how this argument would work if the Washington Yellowskins were so named in the 1930s and called such for the past eight decades?
That said, it is time to change the name. It likely won't happen until Snyder kicks the bucket though.