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Originally Posted by HoustonSkinsFan
This is another area I disagree with; just because people are saying the name is offensive now (either legitimately or otherwise), doesn't mean they're calling everyone who's ever uttered it a racist. Costas, et al have all used the name many times over their careers.
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To call it offensive, disparaging or contemptuous is one thing, but to call it an obvious racial slur on par with the N-word implies anyone who supports the name is racist or ignorant. It's not unreasonable to take it that way either. After all, if there were a team called the Cleveland N-words, what would you think of their fans?
And after this period of "great enlightenment" where we have been educated on just how vile the word Redskin is, how it's equal to the N-word and it causes Native American children to have low esteem, if we still support the name then the logical conclusion can only be that we're terrible people who just don't get it. For they have bestowed upon us such valuable knowledge that we were ignorant to for years, decades even, and yet we still want to keep the name.
And when it does change, we'll be the ones who "were on the wrong side of history". People will shake their heads in disgust when old pictures of us in our Redskins jerseys are shown on TV during halftime of the 2035 Super Bowl between the Washington Warriors and the Kansas City Football Club.