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Have heard some interesting dialogue on this recently after Goodell defended the name. I will admit that I thought 100% they should change it until I heard a Native American's email to Dan Barreiro (a radio program up here). Basically he compared it to "Yankees" which was once a derogatory term used by the British against American soldiers back in the Revolutionary War days and now isn't considered demeaning at all. I will also mention there were just as many or more emails, calls, etc. from Native Americans wanting the name gone. Where do we stand?

(Note: If this is too political, remove. There has been several threads that have evolved into political discussion lately so I thought this would fly. Plus it is NFL-related.
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There's no question there are racial overtones with it, and yet honestly I associate Redskins completely with the football team and completely forget about the fact that it can also be used as a derogatory term.

I'm almost 50/50 on the issue. If I had some American Indian ancestry in me, I might feel differently though. Let's face it, what happened to the American Indians over the past few centuries was on the verge of genocide.
The whole name thing is bull****. A few years ago the NCAA determined the North Dakota Fighting Sioux nickname was "hostile and abusive" and made them change it. Yet, the Fighting Irish is good to go. **** the NCAA, **** Washington and **** all the do-gooder tree huggers that have nothing better to do than jack around with a team name.
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Originally posted by LarseeBear:
Washington Goosesteppers would be appropriate since they know the sheeple are too dumbed-down to give a shat about tyranny.

What's happening with the Kardashians????
Hmmmm, I like this.

Perhaps the Washington Corporate Oligarchs. Or Globalists. Or "Enemy of Sovereigns."

Related to this topic, I was thinking Whiteskins or Blackskins.
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