A Maryland School is Prohibiting Students From Wearing Redskins Gear, Citing 'Deeply Insulting' Name

Sports Illustrated ^ | August 29, 2017 | Daniel Rappaport

[Red Badger]

Just a matter of time. You know this.................

[I want the USA back]

Ever buy redskin potatoes? Are they going to be banned too?

[IYAS9YAS]

Citing 'Deeply Insulting' Name

And yet, most of the Redskins jackets/gear I see around me in New Mexico are being worn by the very folks who should be deeply insulted by it according to this moron lib.

[sargon]

The Washington Redskins' namesake has its origins in a racial slur used by pioneers of the American West to describe Native Americans.

That is a lie. The name was used descriptively, not as an overt slur, and numerous surveys of Native Americans have demonstrated that the term is not "deeply offensive" by any stretch of the imagination...

[silverleaf]

The cowgirls would take offense
Coming soon - the Dallas Cowpeople

[outpostinmass2]

I remember when the Washington “Bullets” were deemed offensive.

[Wuli]

Is a sports team’s use of “Redskins” a slur?

Would a team want to point a “slur” at themselves? No.

Native American names, and references to Native Americans have been adopted by American sports teams out of respect, respect for the “brave warrior” status Native American warriors were known for. The use is the opposite of a “slur”, it is trying to employ something positive about Native Americans in the team name. It’s like saying we - the sports team - are as good a fighters - in what the team does - as Native American warriors were known for. If the team did not have a positive reason behind the name, they would not chose it for themselves.

Yes many Europeans called Native Americans “redskins”, and their use may have been derisive, but the word has not been adopted by sports teams on whatever negative reasons the Europeans had. In fact, they have turned into a positive.

I think all Native Americans ought to proudly become fans of the Washington REDSKINS, and believe that team will fight as hard as their ancestors once did.

[outpostinmass2]

By the way they were originally the Boston Redskins, so named by the owner of the Boston Braves.

[Steve_Seattle]

About 15-20 years ago, during an earlier iteration of the anti-Redskins campaign, I was standing in line at the supermarket behind a middle-aged Native American guy wearing a Redskins jacket.

He apparently hadn't gotten the memo, and for him the name appeared to be a source of pride. After all, the word "red" is commonly used with approval by NA's, as in the book "God is Red" and the phrase "the Red Road" as indicating a NA spiritual path or sensibility.

[buffaloguy]

All of the American Indian named sports teams chose those names to identify with the fighting spirit of the Indian American.

As a result many of those teams have substantial fan base in that that community.

[GOPJ]

Liberal elites don’t have the courage to express their OWN hatred of traditional Americans so they use minorities as a sledge hammer.

One more reason to hate white liberal elites... creepy cowards.

[Rurudyne]

The Dallas Cowbows

They play in Arlington

They practice in Frisco

Their HQ is also in Frisco

Their pro shops ring Dallas but, at least last time I looked, none were actually in Dallas proper

Jerry Jones, the owner, lives in Highland Park

... so I guess he at least has to drive through Dallas to go to work....

[Ohioan]

It is not really a funny thing. Normal people are not inclined to want to pretend that we are all interchangeable. Normal people take pride--constructive pride, not that which goeth before a fall--in their ancestry, kith & kin. The "politically correct," let's pretend that everyone is interchangeable, fantasy, appeals only to compulsion driven neurotics who simply cannot accept the reality that we are all different, all unique.

The different Indian nations fought long & hard for their identities. They are not likely to want egalitarian White neurotics redefining them!

Of course the real evil that the PC crowd accomplish, is that they aid those who want to recruit "victims," rather than encourage those intended "victims" to find what they can do well, and succeed. You do not solve anyone's problems by promoting a fantasy.

See Greatest Mischief.

[GreyFriar]

This article on Washington, DC radio WTOP website gives more information and the entire letter sent to the students and their parents by the school.

http://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2017/08/green-acres-school-to-ban-redskins-gear/slide/1/

Please note that this is a private school policy and not a Montgomery County public school policy...(yet)

[Clutch Martin]

We should also use the Spanish word Manzana instead of the derogatory term “apple”

[Steve_Seattle]

When I went to college (Seattle University), the school’s nickname was the Chieftains, which was neither offensive nor necessarily exclusively applicable to Native Americans, e.g., Scottish chieftains. Nonetheless, it was changed to Red Hawks. (Funny how even with their PC motive, the word “red” became part of the new nickname.)

[Fresh Wind]

Maybe they should change the name to the Washington Brownskins. That would certainly be more accurate.

[Impala64ssa]

Strangely enough, the Nyack, NY HS football team is called the INDIANS. Even though Nyack is like SF-upon-the-Hudson. Rich gays and artiste types moved in about 40 years ago and converted it from a dump into an artsy-fartsy enclave. They even got bragging rights to electing the first openly gay mayor in the Hudson Valley. Rosie O Dumbass lived there when she first appeared on the Skew. She bought the old Helen Hayes estate, then moved a year later because she and her "significant other" felt "uncomfortable" living in such close proximity to the villages Section 8 housing. Like typical hip, progressive venues only the filthy rich and dirt poor live there. No middle class, that's to, ahem,...declasse

[Impala64ssa]

< (Seattle University), the school’s nickname was the Chieftains >
Speaking of which

The hood ornament on a 1951 Pontiac CHIEFTAN. To add insult to injury it glows a BRIGHT RED when the headlights are turned on. I demand every postwar Pontiac still on the road be crushed and GM immediately issue an apology and and commit to ending bigotry and blah blah blah I'M OFFENDED!!

[Moleman]

More like ‘deeply insulting’ to white liberal elites...

EXACTLY!