Rebranding to Consider Red Men/Indian if We Rise Again

Ever notice who complains about how easily offended other people can be?

We stole their country

gave them smallpox infected blankets

John Wayne movies, killed all the buffalo, broke treaties,

slaughtered millions of them,

and stripped Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals.

Now they have to endure team names that are derogatory references to their skin color and offensive cartoon caricature mascots?

You sound like you should be rooting for some redneck school in the deep south.

People aren’t offended there. But don’t forget I’m talking about chickens who campaigned for the cournal.

A Redmen is a scalped Indian. If you’re not offended by that, you’re pretty thick to say the least.

Sure do.

In this case however, the University responded to pressure from some decent white people, myself included, and also the people they were mocking - even if many at the University didn’t recognize it on their own.

Just an idea, stop missing the NCAA tournament and no one will give a shit how dumb your name is.

Go with the Johnnies...that's what most people call them anyway.

Flying Dutchmen

Which they stole from someone else.

Myth. There's one documented case of weaponized small pox, by a Brit, long before there was a United States.

List of things CA finds equally offensive: germ warfare, genocide and John Wayne movies. Good list man.



Completely false and ridiculous. Did you learn American history by watching F Troop?

We being evidently the Swiss, who stripped the medals and have since restored them.

The reason sports team have various forms of Indians as mascots is because Indians were commonly thought of as brave and fierce. If you think calling someone an Indian is derogatory, that's your problem. Still, I bet Native Americans are happy to have you to explain for them why they should be offended by this and that, hashtag white privilege. That said, Redmen would be a public relations disaster. Which is why I like Red Tide.

Did you learn American history by watching F Troop?

Mostly. The rest by reading Howard Zinn.

The reason sports team have various forms of Indians as mascots is because Indians were commonly thought of as brave and fierce. If you think calling someone an Indian is derogatory, that's your problem. Still, I bet Native Americans are happy to have you to explain for them why they should be offended by this and that, hashtag white privilege. That said, Redmen would be a public relations disaster. Which is why I like Red Tide.

Mostly. The rest by reading Howard Zinn.

But even so as a previous poster discussed earlier- an Indian symbol so to speak is not a mascot that's goal is to make fun of. Its to show courage, motivation and something to get behind with your school spirit as is many others in sports (ie Warriors, Blackhawks, Cavaliers etc.).

Imagine someone of English descent saying-  "hey you know- my ancestors were round-heads in the English revolution, the fact that Cleveland has Cavaliers as a mascot insults my heritage." The argument works if you are mocking, but this is simply just presenting as a mascot of a school or a team, nothing more nothing less.

Speaking of Irishmen, as one I find Syracuse's nickname HIGHLY offensive. The Orangemen have trod all over Irish Catholics for years.

Exactly stupid. Zinn was a communist agent on Stalin's payroll and as such an apologist for most repressive murderous regime of the of the 20th century. That he duped you is not surprising, as the most unsurprising thing about you is how stupid you are.

an Indian symbol so to speak is not a mascot that's goal is to make fun of. 

New mascot