Yeah - you're very good at making arguments, Kenny, but the very strongest cases I've heard about this just don't impress me much. What actually lifelong fans of the team prefer and what the owners decide is best for their bottomline seems like they should matter more than doing some poll to see what the majority of a particular group of…
Yeah - you're very good at making arguments, Kenny, but the very strongest cases I've heard about this just don't impress me much. What actually lifelong fans of the team prefer and what the owners decide is best for their bottomline seems like they should matter more than doing some poll to see what the majority of a particular group of Native Americans or Indians or indigenous people (they can't even agree on the non-offensive names which they prefer!) or multicultural-minded leftists want.
I actually like "First Nations" it's kind of the most accurate, it's just not used in the US.
"Native" is kind of strange because humans are not really native to anywhere except for a specific part of Africa, humans by definition move and relocate, get displaced, displace others. A lot of it is ugly stuff, but it's very human.
So "indigenous" doesn't really work either for the same reason. That seems like they are a plant or something.
"Indian" is widely used but laughably inaccurate and confusing considering there are many people from actual India.
"First Nations" correctly points out that there were people living and within multiple "nations" as in not homogenous culturally that lived in the area before others.
Yeah - you're very good at making arguments, Kenny, but the very strongest cases I've heard about this just don't impress me much. What actually lifelong fans of the team prefer and what the owners decide is best for their bottomline seems like they should matter more than doing some poll to see what the majority of a particular group of Native Americans or Indians or indigenous people (they can't even agree on the non-offensive names which they prefer!) or multicultural-minded leftists want.
I actually like "First Nations" it's kind of the most accurate, it's just not used in the US.
"Native" is kind of strange because humans are not really native to anywhere except for a specific part of Africa, humans by definition move and relocate, get displaced, displace others. A lot of it is ugly stuff, but it's very human.
So "indigenous" doesn't really work either for the same reason. That seems like they are a plant or something.
"Indian" is widely used but laughably inaccurate and confusing considering there are many people from actual India.
"First Nations" correctly points out that there were people living and within multiple "nations" as in not homogenous culturally that lived in the area before others.