It bears repeating. “Dude, seriously?”

From my personal viewpoint, that leprechaun guy (and the one for Notre Dame) is a fictional being. It doesn’t exist in real life, unlike a Native American. It’s like the St. Louis University Billiken. If actual leprechauns want to protest, I’ll join ‘em in protesting it. But I suspect that’s not going to happen.

Um, don’t you think they could bring in MORE money by changing out the unis? That seems to be the basic premise everyone is running with when they have approximately 1,459 alternate jerseys...

The Washington Post survey had some issues, as I recall. Not least of which because it allowed people to self-identify as Native Americans and everyone and their brother loves to say they’re 1/64th Cherokee or whatever even if that’s not the case.

There are enough Native Americans tribes that have stated that they…

Here is all the evidence you need.

You’re doing it wrong. You were supposed to respond: “NUH UH I’M EXERCISING MY FREE SPEECH, STOP MAKING ME BE SO PC, THE WORLD ISN’T YOUR SAFE SPACE.”

This is a great example of precisely why we don’t take racism toward Native Americans seriously. We know what Black and Hispanic and Asian folks look like. We expect to see them in public. But due to years of genocide and insane colonialist policies, we don’t see Natives or even understand what some in the community…

A. Great burn.

To be fair, that guy did change his mind about redface and apologize a few years later.

Best explained in visual form. Would you be OK with either of these other team names/logos? If not, then Cleveland’s name and logo are both racist as well.

The Celtics logo is of a leprechaun, a mythical being associated with Ireland.

This is a correct take (not as sexy as a hot take but morally superior).

Are you being for real right now?

A. Boston is a city that has a huge Irish population. The Celtics were named in 1946, decades after anti-Irish discrimination effectively ended. Cleveland has virtually zero Native population, and the nickname is in “honor” of the stereotypical savage warrior.

I think that’s pretty short sighted. Growing up in the deep south, it was everywhere throughout my youth. It was very common to see and no one was really cognizant of its representation elsewhere, because there was no SJWs or internet around to tell us so. “We were the confederate states and we lost so this was that…

No one, save idiots, believes the confederate flag to be a symbol of anything other than slavery and racism. History and heritage are convenient excuses for morons, but most of them don’t even believe those claims. It’s just cover.

As a lifelong Indians fan for a long time I didn’t think of Chief Wahoo as racist. I genuinely believe that most fans who where Indians gear with Chief Wahoo on them aren’t racist and don’t think of it as anything other than a log they’ve known their whole lives. But it is racist and it’s time for the logo to be…

wonder where he learned it

+1 Hingle McCringleberry

You only get two thrusts man.