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GreenKnight127 posted...

I am asking that question. And haven't come to a conclusion about it.

Sure I have - I already said so earlier, by agreeing with the statement "You don't necessarily decide how you feel, but you DO decide how you act."

GreenKnight127 posted...

Of course you could be offended by a team called the Redskins, but why should they change their name just because it upsets you?

Because it's good business sense not to deliberately upset potential customers and limit your ability to expand due to the risk of bad press?

Or, on a less nuts-and-bolts, more philosophical level, generally there's no reason to deliberately make someone mad or cause them pain, so most of humanity correctly identifies it as a dickbag move. If I went out and found a disabled kid and teased him until he was in tears and I wound up in the latest viral video as a result, no one is going to suggest it's the kid who has the problem.

GreenKnight127 posted...

There are countless other people out there who aren't offended by it.

Which means nothing. I'm not personally offended by swastikas*. My family isn't one of the groups that has traditionally suffered under people who parade around with that symbol. But I can recognize that it is tremendously offensive to some people, and justifiably so, given that it was used as the calling card of arguably the most evil regime in the history of humanity and has come to be a symbol of racial oppression, violence, and slaughter on a truly nauseating scale, so I would never suggest those people just *stop being offended*. Their not-too-distant ancestors were butchered under the swastika - it's not disingenuous of them to find its display offensive.

*OK, this is a slight lie, I am at least a bit offended by them, if only because a whole bunch of shitty people have done tremendously awful and evil things in the name of "the white race", of which I am a part, and that symbol is the banner they have used to encapsulate those evils.
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