If a high school can change it's mascot, why can't an NFL team do the same?

[DetDannyWilliams]

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/

[Novacane]

Re: If a high school can change it's mascot, why can't an NFL team do the same?

Cause the owner doesn't want to.

[Zoneblitser]

Re: If a high school can change it's mascot, why can't an NFL team do the same?

More of the politically correct bull****.

[OpIv37]

Re: If a high school can change it's mascot, why can't an NFL team do the same?

More of the politically correct bull****.

Just 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.

[WagonCircler]

Re: If a high school can change it's mascot, why can't an NFL team do the same?

Just 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.

Redskins refers to the red warpaint applied to the skin by a specific tribe.

But why let the facts ruin a good whine?

[Pinkerton Security]

Re: If a high school can change it's mascot, why can't an NFL team do the same?

...they can! They choose not to because it will come at a large cost to them - re-branding a megamillion dollar franchise isnt cheap

[Joe Fo Sho]

Re: If a high school can change it's mascot, why can't an NFL team do the same?

Minnesota Fightin' Whities.

This team would instantly become my 2nd favorite team.

[Pinkerton Security]

Re: If a high school can change it's mascot, why can't an NFL team do the same?

Redskins refers to the red warpaint applied to the skin by a specific tribe.

But why let the facts ruin a good whine?

Heres 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.

[OpIv37]

Re: If a high school can change it's mascot, why can't an NFL team do the same?

Redskins refers to the red warpaint applied to the skin by a specific tribe.

But why let the facts ruin a good whine?

Yeah 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.

[WagonCircler]

Re: If a high school can change it's mascot, why can't an NFL team do the same?

Heres 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.

It's a misconception by ignorant people. And the truth is, survey after survey shows that most natives don't give a ****. In fact many are proud of the Redskins mascot.

[WagonCircler]

Re: If a high school can change it's mascot, why can't an NFL team do the same?

Yeah 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.

That 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.

[Joe Fo Sho]

Re: If a high school can change it's mascot, why can't an NFL team do the same?

Redskins refers to the red warpaint applied to the skin by a specific tribe.

But why let the facts ruin a good whine?

Seriously? 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.

I feel like you shouldn't be able to have these two thoughts.

[OpIv37]

Re: If a high school can change it's mascot, why can't an NFL team do the same?

That 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.

It may not be what the team was named after, but it's what people think of when they hear the name now.

[WagonCircler]

Re: If a high school can change it's mascot, why can't an NFL team do the same?

I feel like you shouldn't be able to have these two thoughts.

Really? Please elaborate.

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.

[WagonCircler]

Re: If a high school can change it's mascot, why can't an NFL team do the same?

It may not be what the team was named after, but it's what people think of when they hear the name now.

Private ****ING property.

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.