... the Indians are no more.
Personally, I never found “Indians” to be offensive. Chief Wahoo, yes. Seeming slurs like “Redskins”, yes. But names like “Seminoles”, “Sioux”, and the more general “Indians” weren’t inherently offensive to me.
"Indians" is offensive (regardless of sports teams) because we aren't people from India.
Eh. Aboriginal people are going to be given names by settlers. It’s been 500 years. I’m sure the original settlers in Ireland didn’t initially want to be called “Irish”, either.
If that type of thing is taking up space in somebody’s head, they’re doing life wrong.
I love how you get to decide what someone else can be offended by. Makes life very convenient. If I adopt the same philosophy, that frees me up to say all kinds of things about you, right? And you don't get to decide whether you are offended. You are just doing life wrong.
The fact that some other people may not be offended by a name given to them has pretty much nothing to do with whether some other people are offended by a different name given to them.
Yes, I’m entitled to an opinion about the viewpoints of others. I think that anybody still hung up on a name given by colonizers 528 years ago has exceedingly thick skin.
My Irish ancestors were pillaged by Vikings. They were ransacked by the English. They had their Gods, land and language stripped from them. The same is true of millions of people. The very inspiration for the “Celtics” that we follow were essentially the victims of a genocide.
I can’t imagine spending my life outraged by the injustice of it all. Should the team name “Vikings” offend me? “Saxons”? Or should I get over it and deal with issues that are actually important?
Decide for yourself. You have no right to decide for others -- who, I might add, are experiencing the social, physical and economic trauma of what has been done to them as a people right now, not in some distant past.
Again, I can have an opinion on the feelings of others. Not all feelings or “offense” are valid. It’s perfectly fine for me to feel that some of our professional whiners, snowflakes, safe spacers and buttercups in our society should buck up and address real issues.
Blaming trauma from 120 years ago for one’s current plight is certainly a pillar of victim culture, but I’m not sure it’s a particularly valid excuse. American Indians aren’t the only people who were victims of a colonial genocide. It sucks, but I would assume that they’ve got bigger issues than a name foisted upon them 528 years ago.
A well-reasoned argument. Name calling. Well done, sir.
So when someone drives up onto your lawn and destroys your fence, and maybe over your foot, you will let them decide just how much damage has been done, right? And it's okay if they call you names as they drive away because they have an 'opinion' that you should get over it.
120 years ago? 528 years ago? Get educated sir, on what currently is happening to indigenous people in this country and maybe you would have an
informed opinion, instead of just an opinion.