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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Irrelevant as those groups were not oppressed/subjugated for being Canadian.
That makes your comparison rather absurd, given "Canuck" is not viewed as being a derogatory term by the affected group. So if the name is unoffensive to the associated group, the Johnny Canuck logo fails to become an apples to apples comparison.
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But there are a lot of arguments being tossed about here. I don't know that being oppressed or the terms being derogatory are even the biggest arguments.
It seems that there are some against the names, some against the faces of the logos (ie, Redskins, Blackhawks, Indians), some against words and pictures that represent arrows, arrowheads, tomahawks, etc, some against just the use of Native American symbols and cultures in sports in general.
I feel like they have a right to be upset about all those things because they are things that belong to their culture. There is some onus on them though to provide some statistics of what their whole community thinks of these various things. If Goodell is claiming 90% of Native Americans are okay with the Redskins, then I'm going to believe him until someone proves otherwise.