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Originally Posted by Poe969
To me, this is a complete waste of time, effort and money. Are some people offended by the names of the indians and redskins, of course they are. Are people offended about the Vikings, I'm sure there's some Sweedish person who is, heck I"m sure there's a homosexual out there who's probably offended by the team name the Flames. It seems that now a days everyone is offended by something and it actually seems like more of those people are the ones who have nothing to do with the actual "offensive" thing to begin with. My wife is Aboriginal/Indian/Native Canadian or whatever you want to call it and our son is 50%. She isn't offended by these names and she makes a great point about it all; these names weren't used to offend anyone to begin with, if anything they were used to show pride. The owners of these teams didn't name them these names because they were making fun of them, they gave them these names to empower them and their namesakes should feel proud of themselves. If all this goes through I really hope that Shawn Fanning, Sean Parker & John Fanning do everything they can to make Pittsburgh change the name of their baseball team.
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Are you seriously comparing the actual name of a long-departed group to a term that is more akin to the N-word, or similar ethnic slurs? I don't have an issue with, for example, the Seminoles (as long as they don't). But "Redskins" is not a comparable.