LogFAQs > #941602932

xMythic posted...

Just stop guy. You don't have any business speaking for an entire group of people, especially one you are not a part of, especially one so large and diverse. I'm Native. I live on a reservation. That team name is something my tribe, and other tribes in the area, are very much against. I have friends and family from other tribes around the country, and up into Canada. I don't know a single one who is for the name.

Sure that name, that slur, has lost most of its bite over the years. Hell, if someone called me a redskin I would probably laugh. Shit, I've been called much worse for absolutely no reason other than the color of my skin. NBD. Older generations would definitely have a much stronger reaction. But it's still a slur, it's marginalizing, and it needs to go. No other group of people would have to deal with this. It wouldn't even be perpetuated, but here we are. Keep the colors and the best looking uniforms in football, just change the fucking name.

You don't understand the dynamics of being Native American. Shame and self-hate, beaten into us during colonization and the decades long boarding school era, play a big role in why some Natives are ok with that name. There are many of who would rather not make a fuss, would much rather go with flow, go against their best interests even, in the hopes that society won't notice they are Native. And then there of us, like myself, who are concentrating on solving issues and breaking negative cycles in their own community to really devote too much time to the name change, who are ok with the name if only because it's not even on their radar. Trust me, that has a big impact on the favorable polls you cherry-picked.

And I've just written a long ass post on fucking GameFAQS, trying to explain things to people who don't really give a shit.

Dude doesn't care, he's wrong and proud of it because of "cancel culture." He is only citing those polls from 2016 as a bludgeon against non-Natives to say that we shouldn't care because Natives allegedly don't care. But I remember the debates about those polls in 2016 and they were debunked even at the time. If you said you didn't care, he'd credit you and use you as a weapon, now that you've said you do care, you're oversensitive and can't speak for others. This is the exact same debate that was had in 2016 and the same debate about Confederate monuments. Some people are just fundamentally opposed to the idea that things they're used to and that don't bother them personally should be changed because they are symbols of other people's subjugation.

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