You’re not going to phase me. I’m a “Redskins fan” in the sense that this team and its logo have been familiar to me for lo these many years without any suggestion of offense. How about the logo itself? It’s entirely dignified. Now suddenly I’m to be stricken with PC madness? Not gonna happen!
Well I’m not a Redskins fan. I don’t care if the Redskins win, lose, keep their name, change their name, move to another city, switch to a different sport, or star in a reality show.
I don’t particularly care one way or the other about the Washington Redskins, but I do care about good old American liberty. That’s really not a paradox.
For some of us, the big issue has nothing whatsoever to do with team spirit, if you can imagine. I don’t even have any team spirit. None! Can you imagine that?! And yet, somehow I manage to care that the Washington Redskins have been stripped of their legal protections surrounding their name, on the political whims of an out of control administration.
Sometimes, it really is the principle of the thing. That might sound vague and high-minded to you, but it makes perfect sense to me.