Posted on 12/15/2020 12:08:55 PM PST by Rummyfan
In the latest episode of corporate wokeness fixing a problem that doesn’t actually exist, the Major League Baseball team the Cleveland Indians is changing its name after having used the moniker for 105 years.
This follows the decision by the Washington Redskins of the National Football League to change their name this season. Whatever you think of that decision by what is now the Washington Football Team, it is plainly obvious that these two cases are nothing alike.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but the term “Indian” to indicate a Native American is not even remotely racist. Just to cite just one example, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian is named what it is named precisely because American Indian is the term preferred by many Native Americans. Should the museum also change its allegedly offensive name? Of course not.
The closest thing to a sensible argument about why we should not use the term “Indian” to describe Native Americans is that it is rooted in a mistake made by Christopher Columbus, who as we all know by now was a horrible racist whose name should never be uttered. But so what? That was 500 years ago. And in the time since, the American Indian, though in many cases badly mistreated by the United States government, also became a central part of American history and legend. That is what we really risk losing in this damnation of history.
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They were proud of their heritage and the kinship in those sports names.
This is nothing but virtue signaling by a bunch of defective, meaningless white liberals.
Pathetic. I’ll never watch nor listen to them again.
I know a lakota souix girl that loathes apaches
I kind of want to start a sports team now and call them the “Savage Red Injun Scalpers” just for the hell of it. Get a real over the top caricature of an indian with a tomahawk dripping blood for the logo too :)
Eh. Things change. People get too worked up. On both sides.
I know an Apache who isn't to fond of other Apaches... They're mostly drunks in her opinion.
The Seminole Nation insists that Florida State Univ retain Seminoles as the nickname of its athletic teams.
My Oneida son-on-law was thrilled when he bought a t-shirt with the Wahoo logo on it. And he told me the guys back in the Green Bay casino where he worked, most of whom were Oneidas thought it was great.
she says they are bullies
It erases the testicles of the Cleveland Baseball Club.
...anyone know what if anything the actual Indians had to say about this? Or we following the usual malcontents as prescribed by......
The time has come for real Americans to rise up and erase Liberalism from our midst. Enough of this crap!!
Being part Tsalagi, I have no problem with the Jeep automobile company....
Congrats Woke Blokes. You just erased Native Americans from
professional sports teams.
And while we’re on this subject, what the heck is wrong with
Redskins, when you consider that African Americans were
pleased to be called Blacks for decades?
These teams used names like tigers, hawks, eagles, bears,
and panthers. Did they do so to denigrate the object of
their mascot? No. They used these names because they thought
of them as very strong admirable objects.
The Cleveland Indians and the Washington Redskins were
names of respect, inclined to mean victory for their teams.
Now American Indians won’t have a place of respect on these
teams and in their locker rooms.
These names will fade from the public eye.
Great job, if you want to erase these people from our
culture.
It is sad that people want to remove the Native Americans from our culture.
Well it does’t. I fully expect to see that the LBGQT “community” will insist that they find the Green Bay Packers to be offensive.
It really can’t be done as far as I’m concerned...
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