Pop Culture Frenzy, Round 15

Welcome to Pop Culture Frenzy.  Let's get on with it.

The Washington Redskins are feeling some heat lately from voices asserting that their team name is offensive. What team name could they (or any sport team for that matter) choose that won't offend anybody?

Molly?

 

Maybe they could use alphabet letters. 

 Like Team X?

 

 

 

 

Then there'd be complaints that

that dominant alphabet excludes

 the differently alphabeted.

 

 

 

 

Football is violent and encourages

 men to be physically hostile.

 

 

 

 

 

Football is a game.

A game that many people enjoy playing

 and watching.  I hope the Redskins

 refuse to change the name of their team.

 

 

 

 

 

So you don't buy the assertion
 that "Redskins" is offensive?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Of course not.

"Redskin" is an old fashioned informal word

 referring to a North American Indian.

  It conveys courage, toughness.

  You know, the very qualities one

 would want in a competitive team.  

 

 

 

 

 

Some Native Americans have complained

 that the name is offensive.

 

 

 

 

 

So?  Every time somebody complains that they are offended,

 we have to change something?  That doesn't make sense.

  I am offended that I must be on a leash in public. 

 If I complained and made self centered

 demands,  I'd never get to take a walk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Native Americans are special.

  We took their land from them and stuff.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes, many early settlers mistreated the Indian.

  We all know that.  What is pathetic is how Native Americans

 have been turned into helpless waifs dependent on government

 and fed a steady dose of rancor against their "conquerors". 

 What present day people with Native American blood really

 are, or ought to be, are Americans.  Rather than accepting

 history and learning from it, why must we keep apologizing for it?

 

 

 

 

 

It's their heritage, their identity.

 

 

 

 

 

There's a difference between having a connection

 to the past, your heritage, and expecting

 special treatment because of it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I had a feeling this pop culture frenzy question

would prove unanswerable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah well, ha!

  Let me tell you something.

  I self identify as a dolphin.

  Dolphins are intelligent peaceful

 docile creatures ill suited to the hostility of football.

  I demand that Miami change their team name!