"On today's game we have The Jacksonville Blacks Vs. The San Francisco Chinamen".This would be very offensive to many chinese and black people, especially if they had a logo that had them stereotypically drawn. Imagine how Natives feel. It must suck to turn on a game and be subjected to seeing a team play thats called the "Redskins" as a native american. If it offends a group and would offend another group then why is it still around? Washington could be called the "senators" and cleveland could be called the "Coasters" or the "Rockers". Redskin is an epithet. Change it. Now. Indians too. Warriors too. Seminoles too.
People are too sensitive nowadays. The names do not have the intention of malice. It's just a sports team name. No goal of harm, it's just honoring their heritage through the name.We might as well change every name that could offend people. The giants could offend little people. The angels could offend atheists. The blue devils? That could offend satanists!! If we start with this team name, where does it end? Besides, it doesn't even offend natives! All of these social justice warriors should relax. You are driving to a "Redskins name change protest" in your jeep cherokee. Please relax, it's just a name. Complaining about a name won't help natives and help their treatment. Perhaps real initiative should be taken, I'm sure natives would prefer to have clean water and have their holy land not pillaged anymore. You don't care though. You don't want to actually do anything to help natives, you just want to complain about a team name from a sport that is the least of native's worries.

Sure this argument may be outdated and not as prominent as it was in 2013 but it's bound to come up again. As the MLB season approaches rapidly, there will arguably be more protests against the team name of the Cleveland Indians as well as the Washington Redskins. Either you think all teams that have a Native American mascot should be changed or you think people are too sensitive and it's supposed to "honor" native americans, besides native americans don't even mind.
For me, I think its a little insensitive, but changing the name doesn't matter. It won't feed natives. It wont help them. Why would changing a team name do anything. But thats just me. What do you think?
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