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Originally Posted by Trumbull
Well, Martians could have voted in those polls too, so I would disagree that it's irrelevant.
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What the hell does this even mean? The only people who should have any say on this are the people it actually effects.
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Americans have their own dialect of English, which also means they have their own sensibilities about language, if their populace largely agrees that this team name isn't offensive, why exactly should I follow along with this movement of hysteria over a ####ing NFL team name few are offended by?
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The majority of Americans are white, so of course they aren't going to find the name offensive. It's not being directed at them.
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I know people offended by the name Canucks. I know Mexicans in California offended by the usage of Padres. Why should those people dictate language for the rest? That's absolute hilarity. 
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False equivalence. Neither of those terms have a pejorative history.
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Keep in mind too many other Canadians miss the fact that the American Constitution and judicial interpretations thereof are more favourable to individual rights rather than collective.
So the correct perspective is in the polls as it reflects those very things.. really the only things that matter.
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And strawman. The constitutional rights of Canadians and Americans has nothing to do with what content Native Americans find discriminatory.