I’m having a hard time understanding why this concept is so difficult for people to grasp. Every time something like this comes up, people get all defensive and start shouting about “snowflakes”, cancel culture, and how everyone today is easily offended.Mascots shouldn’t be based on any race.
But this particular topic has been addressed in great depth at least since the 1970s. 50+ years and some still can’t just accept that it’s wrong to use racist stereotypes for school mascots?
American Indian has been an accepted academic term for people indigenous to the Americas for a few decades.Ironically, the term Indian is used here but normally refers to the many people from India that live here now.
I’m not sure why you’re so set on defending the name. The actual word “Indian” is not the issue. No one is trying to wipe American Indian people from history or eliminate their cultures by opposing this team’s name.It is easy to blame a name for rude, uncivilized, bigoted behavior of the people involved. I'm not accepting that as an excuse. Blame the ones actually doing it not the name of a culture.
We are simply saying that using a racial term for a school mascot is wrong. It’s wrong because 1. It dehumanizes the people it references and 2. It perpetuates racist stereotypes.