This is apparently important enough for you to make two comments arguing about it. ;-)
I haven't seen any polls that suggest a significant number of Native Americans really care. It's something that mostly white liberals care about more since it's such a trivial symbolic issue which is easy to "debate" and "virtue signal" (not a term I li…
This is apparently important enough for you to make two comments arguing about it. ;-)
I haven't seen any polls that suggest a significant number of Native Americans really care. It's something that mostly white liberals care about more since it's such a trivial symbolic issue which is easy to "debate" and "virtue signal" (not a term I like but one I think applies here) about instead of doing something more meaningful to benefit people's lives.
Yeah. So my reasoning for commenting is A.) This is the point of writing something, engagement and I decided to engage in part to bolster dialogue and participation. B.) I wanted to present a different POV rather than an all out criticism of the point. I just think the alternative POV should be established with evidence. Which from reading about this issue I have concluded that there is merit to a name change.
Something I should add is that the fans of the Redskins might actually care about this name change thing more than anyone judging by the backlash to the name change.
I do find it kind of depressing that the only thing that really seems to have come out of the 2020 protests were superficial corporate gestures.
Currently there are many more important issues regarding Native Americans.
The most pressing being that many Native Americans live on reservations with some of the worst poverty and social problems in the US. Their ancestors did not go to these reservations by choice and often times they are stuck in areas with no infrastructure or natural resources often times far from their ancestral homeland.
To me it seems that there should be a taskforce that works with Native American leaders to produce a plan to rectify this situation and the federal government should take action to improve lives.
It's not that small gestures are not important, but if small gestures are the ONLY thing happening ever, it's kind of insulting and virtue signal stuff.
Judging by the reactionary backlash from some of the general public to some of these name changes I don't know if they help people become more sympathetic to the plight of Native Americans, it might make things worse in a small way.
Another example of this nonsense in the wake of the George Floyd protests was that Tim Scott proposed police reform, it wasn't the be all end all police reform package but it was something. The Democrats refused to vote on it because they were going to come up with something better.
Something better never came. Why? They didn't want a Republican(s) to get a potential "win" the Democrats wanted to own the issue in the upcoming election. They wanted to hammer Republicans.
The thing is almost certainly the Republicans would have soured on the proposal before it came time to vote. However there was a slight chance that if it traveled fast enough through Congress it could have passed. The Democrats threw that chance away over politics. People gave a lot of lip service but really did nothing. A lot of the public soured on the protests(which were inevitable especially since leftists and in certain places a criminal element got involved out of pure opportunism.)
So what happened? Local governments "defined the police" which was both a bad idea anyway and was universally reversed after a slight uptick in crime.
A bunch of corporations and brands like the Redskins changed their advertising strategy...that's it. That is virtue signaling.
I think what we want is an effective government that responds quickly and effectively. That's not what we get.
This is apparently important enough for you to make two comments arguing about it. ;-)
I haven't seen any polls that suggest a significant number of Native Americans really care. It's something that mostly white liberals care about more since it's such a trivial symbolic issue which is easy to "debate" and "virtue signal" (not a term I like but one I think applies here) about instead of doing something more meaningful to benefit people's lives.
Yeah. So my reasoning for commenting is A.) This is the point of writing something, engagement and I decided to engage in part to bolster dialogue and participation. B.) I wanted to present a different POV rather than an all out criticism of the point. I just think the alternative POV should be established with evidence. Which from reading about this issue I have concluded that there is merit to a name change.
Something I should add is that the fans of the Redskins might actually care about this name change thing more than anyone judging by the backlash to the name change.
I do find it kind of depressing that the only thing that really seems to have come out of the 2020 protests were superficial corporate gestures.
Do you think my point about "virtue signaling" on this issue is legitimate?
Yes actually.
Currently there are many more important issues regarding Native Americans.
The most pressing being that many Native Americans live on reservations with some of the worst poverty and social problems in the US. Their ancestors did not go to these reservations by choice and often times they are stuck in areas with no infrastructure or natural resources often times far from their ancestral homeland.
To me it seems that there should be a taskforce that works with Native American leaders to produce a plan to rectify this situation and the federal government should take action to improve lives.
It's not that small gestures are not important, but if small gestures are the ONLY thing happening ever, it's kind of insulting and virtue signal stuff.
Judging by the reactionary backlash from some of the general public to some of these name changes I don't know if they help people become more sympathetic to the plight of Native Americans, it might make things worse in a small way.
Another example of this nonsense in the wake of the George Floyd protests was that Tim Scott proposed police reform, it wasn't the be all end all police reform package but it was something. The Democrats refused to vote on it because they were going to come up with something better.
Something better never came. Why? They didn't want a Republican(s) to get a potential "win" the Democrats wanted to own the issue in the upcoming election. They wanted to hammer Republicans.
The thing is almost certainly the Republicans would have soured on the proposal before it came time to vote. However there was a slight chance that if it traveled fast enough through Congress it could have passed. The Democrats threw that chance away over politics. People gave a lot of lip service but really did nothing. A lot of the public soured on the protests(which were inevitable especially since leftists and in certain places a criminal element got involved out of pure opportunism.)
So what happened? Local governments "defined the police" which was both a bad idea anyway and was universally reversed after a slight uptick in crime.
A bunch of corporations and brands like the Redskins changed their advertising strategy...that's it. That is virtue signaling.
I think what we want is an effective government that responds quickly and effectively. That's not what we get.