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It’s the difference between a team named the Brooklyn Chasids versus one called the Staten Island Kikes.

Redskins is not the neutral name of a tribe, or a generic group of people, it’s a derogatory term for a “savage” enemy that we tried hard to exterminate for a century.

My state of Oklahoma will need to change its name then. The Choctaw words okla and humma means red people. Not a derogatory term for savages. Redskins was also a generic moniker. Over time, the meaning of words are changed by activists. Hell, just a year ago, marriage meant something completely different.

a “savage” enemy that we tried hard to exterminate for a century.

That they were savage is a fact. Regardless of how un-PC it is to say so today. Or, if you wish to dispute the term, you'll have to come up with a definition of "non-savage" that allows for routinely torturing captured enemies to death, which most tribes practiced.

It is factually incorrect to say "we tried hard to exterminate (them) for a century."

US policy wavered, but generally was aimed at assimilating Indians, not exterminating them. Of course, you can get around that by calling it "cultural genocide." When Indians were moved onto reservations, we fed them, however poorly the policy was implemented in many cases. Not exactly something you do with people you are determined to exterminate.

That physical extermination was never routine US policy can by seen by the fact that they weren't exterminated, when doing so was easily within US capabilities.

To look at an actual policy of extermination, you might want to google the Indian Wars of Argentina. They DID have a policy of extermination, and Argentina doesn't really have an Indian problem today. Because they mostly don't have any Indians.

sorry I do not buy your derogatory name theory..

If you look at the name and logo of the Washington Redskins vs the name and logo of the Cleveland Indians..

the Indian's logo is far more offensive

..a “little Sambo” type logo

vs the Redskins logo which is almost a Noble monument type logo similar to the Indian Head nickel

People that go out to find things to be offended by are sad.

I'm handicapped, arm amputee, if I went around finding offense at everything I could, I'd have no life

Redskins is not the neutral name of a tribe, or a generic group of people, it’s a derogatory term for a “savage” enemy that we tried hard to exterminate for a century.

Huh? Redskins is a generic moniker -- all mascots are -- it's kind of the point. Certain North American tribes were "savage". And, you shouldn't judge "savage" as if it were necessarily a bad thing given the environment they thrived in. And "exterminate" ... I don't recall the Trail of Tears ending in a Nazi shower.