and getting rid of the whole Redskins name and branding? Stupid.

It would be like the Cleveland Guardians deciding to add Chief Wahoo’s oversized teeth to their logo.

Quit while you're ahead!

The one good thing I'll say about the team is the new ownership group (generally) represents an improvement over the Snyder era, but this seems like a big miss.

And I've never seen the shield before. Where did that come from???

or (IIRC) lose their new stadium project or some such thing. Oddly, it took a similar threat in 1961 by then Interior Secretary Stewart Udall and AG Bobby Kennedy to cancel their lease on the D. C. Stadium, unless they hired black players. Their owner for more than 30 years was a Kentucky-born unapologetic racist/segregationist named George Preston Marshall; they were the last NFL team to integrate, in 1962.

(Trump made a similar demand on the Guardians, but I don't think that he has any practical leverage over them. And I get the impression that the team & fans are well settled with the new name.)

It is, of course, a simple weapon used by just about every human culture on Earth at one time or another.

It is also a throwback to the Washington logo of the 60's.

All of which is actually irrelevant, as it is clear to anybody watching that it is a direct attempt to insult Native Americans while preserving a shred of deniability.

-- Mal

the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

-which was often the derogatory stereotype about Irish men.



They now have a new logo. I wonder why?



In Notre Dame's new logo, fists are down and football is in

The ones in my family would laugh.

because it's an old trope that lead to stuff like nick-naming a police van, a "Paddy Wagon".

ETA - (from the NYT (1854: No Irish Need Apply)

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and the shield logo looks African. But they also should not do anything to remind people their name was a racist slur and they kept it far too long.

As they used stone/flint tips, looks more Bronze age Aegean to me.
Native:

Bronze Age Greek:
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Which ever it is, they're still trying to get around the racial label.

the Washington Neanderthals and offend MAGAts instead.

Why resurrect this controversy now? Call me a crazy conspiracist, but I suspect Trump had something to do with this.

Not a conspiracy. Last summer, he threatened to withhold funding from the new stadium unless they change the name back -

Trump threatens to hold up stadium deal if Commanders don't return to old name

What seemed to be settled law. Or at least decisions.

It was a great name.

It looks respectful and its represents the power of the football team.

I can see problems with Redskins or other mascots that go after stereotypes. But not the spear. Does the spear actually represent Native American culture specifically or just spears in general as almost every culture in the world had spears.

If you had no knowledge of the 'skins, what would you think?

The spear is AI neutral.

Looks more like a european metal spear for warfare instead of a stone or bone spear.