LANCASTER, N.Y. - The Lancaster School Board unanimously approved a new nickname -- the "Legends" -- at a meeting on Monday night, marking another step forward for the district following the retirement of the old "Redskins" http://www.wgrz.com/story/news/educa...ends/28719953/
If a high school can change it's mascot, why can't an NFL team do the same?
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Re: If a high school can change it's mascot, why can't an NFL team do the same?
Originally posted by Zoneblitser View PostMore of the politically correct bull****.
Why are native Americans the only group allowed to be identified by their skin color? People would be furious if there were teams called the Atlanta Darkies, the Miami Brownskins, the Vancouver Yellowskins or the Minnesota Fightin' Whities.
But for some reason, no one seems to mind calling native Americans "Redskins."
I ask this question every single time this issue comes up and I have yet to get an answer.
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Re: If a high school can change it's mascot, why can't an NFL team do the same?
Originally posted by OpIv37 View PostJust answer this:
Why are native Americans the only group allowed to be identified by their skin color? People would be furious if there were teams called the Atlanta Darkies, the Miami Brownskins, the Vancouver Yellowskins or the Minnesota Fightin' Whities.
But for some reason, no one seems to mind calling native Americans "Redskins."
I ask this question every single time this issue comes up and I have yet to get an answer.
But why let the facts ruin a good whine?
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Re: If a high school can change it's mascot, why can't an NFL team do the same?
Originally posted by WagonCircler View PostRedskins refers to the red warpaint applied to the skin by a specific tribe.
But why let the facts ruin a good whine?
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Re: If a high school can change it's mascot, why can't an NFL team do the same?
Originally posted by WagonCircler View PostRedskins refers to the red warpaint applied to the skin by a specific tribe.
But why let the facts ruin a good whine?
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Re: If a high school can change it's mascot, why can't an NFL team do the same?
Originally posted by NaturalBornSpiller View PostHeres a fact - its still used (no matter the origin) as a racial term that most natives would probably not be in favor of being called.
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Re: If a high school can change it's mascot, why can't an NFL team do the same?
Originally posted by OpIv37 View PostYeah but it also refers to the scalps of native Americans that were taken as war trophies and it's been used as a disparaging name as well. But let's not let that get in the way of a good whine about someone else's perceived whine.
At the end of the day, this is about privately owned property, whose private owner refuses to change the name of HIS property, over a misconception by ignorant people like you, regarding the origin on HIS PROPERTY'S name.Last edited by WagonCircler; 06-09-2015, 09:27 AM.
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Re: If a high school can change it's mascot, why can't an NFL team do the same?
Originally posted by WagonCircler View PostRedskins refers to the red warpaint applied to the skin by a specific tribe.
But why let the facts ruin a good whine?Originally posted by WagonCircler View PostSeriously? You're fine with jokes about that day when 3,000 innocent people were incinerated? That makes you an *******.
Wait, let me guess...you think they deserved it.
Got any Holocaust jokes? Maybe a funny plane crash anecdote? A humorous ditty about a dead soldier's funeral?
Wow.
Just..
...wow.
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Re: If a high school can change it's mascot, why can't an NFL team do the same?
Originally posted by WagonCircler View PostThat NOT what the team was named after. So this is another case of stupid people looking to act like victims, which is especially ironic in that it's mostly white, liberal bereavement enthusiasts who cry so hard about this.
At the end of the day, this is about privately owned property, whose private owner refuses to change the name of HIS property, over a misconception by ignorant people like you, regarding the origin on HIS PROPERTY'S name.
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Re: If a high school can change it's mascot, why can't an NFL team do the same?
Originally posted by Joe Fo Sho View PostI feel like you shouldn't be able to have these two thoughts.
If anything, this is a clear illustration of the difference between what is truly offensive and what is an imagined slight, created by people who have an agenda.
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Re: If a high school can change it's mascot, why can't an NFL team do the same?
Originally posted by OpIv37 View PostIt may not be what the team was named after, but it's what people think of when they hear the name now.
Just because people are stupid and misunderstand something doesn't mean the government should be able to step in, as they are trying to do, and force a man to change the name of his business.
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