gary_webb
Damned glad to meet you
I've been thinking about it.
Redskins to conduct 'thorough review' of team name amid intense scrutiny
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Crabcatcher79
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Seems like you guys are the ones who keep complaining about every little trivial thing.
“Someone painted a street!” “Someone retired a offense name”. “Someone stop flying an offensive flag”
“Why is everyone out to get me”
You guys can’t stand the world is changing for the better and you are getting left behind and everyone opinions and hopes and dreams carry the same weight. Not just old white peoples.
Crabcatcher79
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Because it is offensive and a racial slur to the original inhabitants of this continent who we tried to eradicate and forced in to "reservations " on their own land through trickery, uneven trades, slaughtering their food supply and aggression.
That oppression goes back hundreds of years while the team name is less than 100 years old. Seems like the least we can do.
Just like now we will call the " master" bedroom the main bedroom. It's inconsequential but why would we want to continue to offend people if we dont have to.
You don't see people gong around saying they got "jewed down or gypped" anymore. Language, names and people evolve as we get better and educate ourselves.
Its only been about 50 years since interracial marriage was legalized in Virginia less then 10 for gay marriage. Things get better as society evolves and I think the names of teams are no different.
You and all your pearl-clutching pals have elevated being offended to heretofore unseen levels. Even got your own group label now; the "offendinistas".
Who said they were not offended. Not everyone is such a pu$$y like you and your pals.
PsyOps
Pixelated
Or the Washington Mukakas
You and extreme irony....you are one clueless child!
In YOUR Narrow Mind ......
That is YOUR Distorted World View .......
FFS in 54 yr I have never once run into someone offended by the use if Master Beadroom
How Do Native Americans Feel About the Washington Redskins' Name? You Might Be Surprised
But by virtually any poll, survey or study conducted, that simply doesn’t appear to be the case. At most, it’s fair to say that the nickname is polarizing. But the idea that a name change is necessary for “all”? The numbers simply don’t back that up.
The best-known survey is likely a 2016 Washington Post poll that found 9 out 10 Native Americans don’t find the “Redskins” name offensive.
The poll asked a random national sample of 504 Native American adults and was conducted via phone interviews. The margin of error was 5.5 percentage points.
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The Wolvereye survey took a more human approach to their survey. Instead of asking whether a person was offended by “Redskins,” it delved into what it called “emotional DNA” and asked for specific feelings on the team’s name.
The Wolvereye survey instead presented interviewees with 40 options that included feelings such as “proud,” “love” and “fear.”
The findings were fascinating.
The most common emotion the survey takers cited when asked about how they felt about Redskins’ name was “proud.” The next most common was “indifferent.”
In fact, of the top five most common emotions, three of them were categorized as “positive.” That list includes the aforementioned “proud,” “content” and “satisfied.”
The only negative emotion to crack the top five was merely “annoyed.” That sure seems like a far cry from the deeply wounded emotions that detractors of the name would have you think Native Americans feel about it.
Crabcatcher79
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Yeah To you because you are not native or black. But every time some mentions a master bedroom its a subtle reminder that the country is set up for White people and built on the backs of slave labor.
If your ancestors had been brought here against their will enslaved , raped and beaten you might be a bit more sensitive to even a trivial thing like a "master bedroom"
Crabcatcher79
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Again. That is your privilege.
The term master bedroom refers to the master of the plantations bedroom.
No one is being psychologically damaged by it but its a daily reminder of slavery.
Just as the term " redskin" is a daily reminder of the forced eradication of native peoples
When I hear redskin, I think potato. Frankly, I prefer the Yukon golden ones.
You need deep psychological help!
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