Re: The Redskins name needs to change!
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 1:47 am
I would gladly play for, or pull for, a team called The Cotton Pickers. In fact, the more controversial a team's mascot/name is, the mor elikely I am to be a fan. The Snot Rags, The Gonads, The Cripples, The Screaming Gypsies. Those would be awesome!
People are so detached from what makes language important and significant--- CONTEXT! Context is mandatory to make anything "offensive." Words are totally innocent. Words are noises that we utter with our mouths, and they comprise LANGUAGE, which we use so that other people understand our THOUGHTS!
Team mascot names are caricatures, they're make believe. When you watch the Lions play the Bears, you aren't expecting to see wild Lions from Africa on the field with Bears from North America (or wherever Bears can come from). You're expecting to see men playing American football. The mascot/nickname isn't a literal context of the word itself.
And, keep in mind, members of the Blackfeet tribe in South Dakota submitted the Indian Head profile logo on the helmets! Native Americans voluntarily offered/provided the imagery for the team's logo.
Redskins, in the context of a football team nickname, is not offensive, or inappropriate, or a slur, or derogatory, or anything negative at all. It is used as a symbolic gesture of the fortitude, strength and resolve that is synonymous with the 18th and 19th Century image and legacy of of the Indian Tribes of North America.
HAIL TO THE REDSKINS!
People are so detached from what makes language important and significant--- CONTEXT! Context is mandatory to make anything "offensive." Words are totally innocent. Words are noises that we utter with our mouths, and they comprise LANGUAGE, which we use so that other people understand our THOUGHTS!
Team mascot names are caricatures, they're make believe. When you watch the Lions play the Bears, you aren't expecting to see wild Lions from Africa on the field with Bears from North America (or wherever Bears can come from). You're expecting to see men playing American football. The mascot/nickname isn't a literal context of the word itself.
And, keep in mind, members of the Blackfeet tribe in South Dakota submitted the Indian Head profile logo on the helmets! Native Americans voluntarily offered/provided the imagery for the team's logo.
Redskins, in the context of a football team nickname, is not offensive, or inappropriate, or a slur, or derogatory, or anything negative at all. It is used as a symbolic gesture of the fortitude, strength and resolve that is synonymous with the 18th and 19th Century image and legacy of of the Indian Tribes of North America.
HAIL TO THE REDSKINS!