FedEx asks Redskins to change name
 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">JUST IN: <a href="https://twitter.com/FedEx?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FedEx</a> has asked the Washington <a href="https://twitter.com/Redskins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Redskins</a> to change its name. Here is the statement:<br><br>“We have communicated to the team in Washington our request that they change the team name.“</p>&mdash; ABC 7 News - WJLA (@ABC7News) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC7News/status/1278807283284180992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 2, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Here we go. I think part of the reason we’ve been safe from this kind of stuff is because the Redskins have always been a bigger target. Now that there’s pressure from sponsors Snyder is going to feel the heat like never before.

If they go down, make no mistake, the mob will come for us next.

Haha.

FedEx, really?

Let's be honest - it's hard to defend the name "Redskins."

When the Braves and Indians start getting targeted, I'll start getting worried.

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Yea. You know. The company who owns the naming rights for where that team plays.

Could just change it to The Washington Red.

They already killed Chief Wahoo. He was a good indian

If GEHA asks us to change ours, I would respond with, "Gay! Ha!"

Trojan should sponsor the Gamecocks. "Trojan - We cover the Cocks!"

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Since I don't live in the area, I don't even know who GEHA is. Do they pronounce it "Gay-Ha" or "Gee Eee Ach Ay"?

When will "Major League" get removed from Netflix?

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They should change their name to the Washington UPS

LMAO

For some reason I didn’t make the connection. Thank you.

Selling your soul for that corporate $ is coming back to bite ya, eh Dannyboy?

Oh boy. that would go over well.

Saw there was a big movement by investors to target Nike, FedEx, and Pepsi to put pressure on Snyder to change the name.

They could go back to their original name when the franchise was founded in Boston... the Braves.

CEO is a minority owner as well.

The only more embarrassing name they could have is the Washington Senators.

Hey-ho

"The only good Indian is an Indian not used in popular media." - General Philip Sheridan (though apparently it may be more accurately traced to Representative James Michael Cavenaugh of Montana in 1868.)

Shit and to think I was going to do a "wait for it......wait for it"........

It’s ****ing garbage, why don’t you google Red Mesa Arizona Navajo high school football team for just one example

There is no consensus among native Americans about this shit at all, it’s just a bunch of ****ing GARBAGE... we’re becoming a nation of SPOILED PUSSIES

Cancel Culture. It started way back. Took a couple of generations.

Also, our Arrowhead is just Arrowhead. It isn't Arrowhead Field at Million Dollar Corporate Sponsor Stadium.

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There are seven high schools in Iowa whose mascot is the Midgets.

:hmmm:..........no comment

Doubtful

I know two of them: Estherville and Unionville.

Iowa is Missouri’s hat, so who gives a shit.

East Nebraska has a nice ring to it.

Washington Warrens. I've included a logo (artwork is not mine)

That will be the Washington, Douglas Commonwealth Red soon enough.

Calm down

Is there ever an issue you aren't on the wrong side of

I guess they have to get a new fight song too. “hail to the Redskins!l

Unrelated but funny since you brought up AZ high schools. The Yuma HS mascot is...wait for it.....The Criminals. Not a nickname given by the fan base or anything. They’re the Yuma HS Criminals. Lol.

Most Native Americans have far bigger problems to worry about... violence/domestic violence rates on reservations, terrible health metrics, etc.

But I am sure they are satisfied that the Woke crowd’s attention when it comes to Native American issues is almost entirely focused on the Redskins nickname, Tomahawk Chop, etc.

This actually made me curious to know what data exists about the perceptions of the offensiveness of the name. So for what it's worth, Berkeley did a survey this year, and they found that, among all of those who self-identified as Native American, 49% "strongly agreed" or "agreed" (7-point scale) that the Redskins name is offensive, and the percentage is 67% among those who were heavily-engaged in their tribal cultures.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/02/04...ascots-survey/

So it seems it's definitely not unanimous, but it's also not a tiny portion who find it offensive.

Far more than the percentage that find kneeling during the anthem offensive.

Yeah, Redskins is an easy to target as racist. Indians isn't IMHO but its borderline. Braves and Chiefs are respectful.

Especially if you are a liberal dumbass

At least Braves and Chiefs can make arguments. There's no argument for Redskins other than tradition.

:spock::shake:

Who let you out of the klan subforum

Shut the **** up.

Holy shit you damn liberals are ****ing ignorant

I don’t have the time to educate every one of you dumb mother ****ers


For **** sake can you stupid assholes read a ****ing book or take a damn history class!

Here come two of the biggest dumbshits to grace the pages of this forum. **** off vailpass and eat shit foreverchiefs you two racist chuckle****s can go suck each others' cocks in DC

For those who bitch when we boot people for political stuff, here's the example of blatant vs. the other posts in this thread, which we generally try not to come down too harsh on.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Nike has removed all Washington <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Redskins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Redskins</a> merchandise from their website. <a href="https://t.co/zZvdHlL3Ld">pic.twitter.com/zZvdHlL3Ld</a></p>&mdash; NFL Update (@MySportsUpdate) <a href="https://twitter.com/MySportsUpdate/status/1278862328478535682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


it's happening

My biggest problem with that statement was the use of an exclamation point instead of a question mark

FedEx is on the way out. Screw them

Bastards will be coming for you guys next.

How much money will Nike make on the newly branded merchandise? :hmmm:

Well a ton but yeah money talks. It might be the only thing Snyder listens to

Wouldn't surprise me. My hope is that the name Chiefs and Arrowhead could possibly survive with even more discussions with local tribes. The "chop" is almost certainly gonna be dumped eventually, and I could POSSIBLY see them trying to do some sort of a rule against headdresses. That would be super tough to enforce, though.

Time will tell.

Good information to know! Thanks for posting!

Once they get momentum they’re hard to stop and they strike out aimlessly. I sincerely hope they don’t get to your name. There is no basis for changing it. At some point this inquisition will peak then recede, just a matter of what can weather the storm and what can’t.

The blankets left people cold

Gotta admit, Redskins is fair game

Thanks. I laughed. Now I am going to hell for sure.

That is fine. It is honestly a dumb name and a dumb brand. Not really offensive does not feel the same as Washington but if we thought up of something new and different that would be great.

Its basically Storm Front over there these days. Its incredible.

You are so mad.

I think the challenge is implementation. If you play the long game and don't encourage it, the chop and indian apparel will die out over the next thirty years ... maybe. But you'll have to wait until every drunkard and every traditionalist and every person with an oppositional personality dies. And if you try to hasten it, it'll trigger the oppositional people to resist even more.

I think the only way you really stop traditions like that is to make a cold, hard change of the name and the brand. Human nature will drag it out otherwise.

I guess the even faster option is that you move the team and rebrand them simultaneously, but we don't even want to talk about that.

It is stupid. The Redskin originally came from the American Indian themselves when discussing themselves with the whites.
It only had a negative connotation when woke whites said it was bad.
I was fine with chief wahoo as he was a cariacture.

But, with this amount of whining. Maybe they go after the the Patriots also. White colonial oppressionists of poc.

There's no way you can keep the patriots name. Patriots are everything that this country has ever done wrong. They fought native americans, held slaves, deforested pristine lands, and filmed other cultures' walkthroughs. In the big picture, patriots committed far more wrong than any other team mascot.

They did a few things that were good, like create democracy in the modern world, but that doesn't count. We only count bad stuff when making decisions.

Shut your fat cup cake eating ass up before I hook you up to a treadmill

I'm fine with destroying the Patriots

Yeah, they really need to shut the entire franchise down and start a new one in New Hampshire or something. The patriots offend everybody.

This is the correct answer


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I am just impressed you took a break from being scared to death to live in Kansas City to post this.

Time isn't your problem.

Please please let’s hear this great defense of the term redskin. I’m gonna guess you are going with, well it pisses of liberals so it’s good.

Step up and prep up zipperhead.

Ok boomer.

Sad thing is, though Rain is his usual clever self here, it’s not out of the picture for them to come for the Patriot name or logo if they are left unchecked.

The Washington Criminals would work...

This is gonna get real ugly. I mean real ugly and it could cascade across every league and every name someone is offended by.

I knew this was coming......