re: Trump calls for name reversals of NFL's Commanders, baseball's Guardians

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I applaud those who call him out for shifting the narrative and trying to get his base and the media to not talk about Epstein.

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Trump is playing 3D chess with the Epstein file right now. There are so many important people (world leaders) on that list, if it was made public the world would be in chaos. Much worse than it is now. Like you I didn't like the move but my man, it's much bigger than just releasing the list.

Campaign promises made, campaign promises avoided because he was full of shite. I wouldn’t hold it against him had he not run on transparency when it comes to Epstein. The fact that he’s involved certainly doesn’t help.

Yep and happened during the summer of love when the piece of shite libs had nothing to do all day except complain and cancel on twitter

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When they polled it before changing the name 80% wanted to keep Redskins

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I think I read that, too, but I didn't see who they polled or how it was conducted. Most people I know whose ancestry is primarily native American (which is not a lot) are not that easily offended. They all kind of roll with the punches, so to speak.

My grandfather on my mom’s side was and never once had any grievance. People from that era didn’t even think about silly things like that.

I’m sure this will make everyone forget he is hiding the Epstein list and running cover for pedos like Prince Andrew.

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My grandfather on my mom’s side was and never once had any grievance. People from that era didn’t even think about silly things like that.

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A couple of the guys I interacted with on a job site were a bit younger than me, about the age of my older children; they couldn't have cared less if people called them Indians or Native Americans, though we never talked about the Redskins name. Honestly, what I got from those guys was they preferred to be singled out by tribe (they were Navajo) than lumped all together.

Nobody who watches sports asked for these changes. Glad the president is calling this out

Guardians is lame but they should switch to Spiders. The Indians name is cursed. They lost Game 7 in extra innings the last TWO times in the World Series.

It's like building on a sacred Indian burial ground.

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I guess it’s different depending on education and influence in a particular area. Here, what happened was during French/Indian war that tribe and a militia from the area fought a French battalion and were slaughtered down to like 3 tribesman and a couple of others from the area so the tribe was wiped out right there. The 3 survivors were brothers, they came home
started families and assimilated into the community. They had a nickname but that’s all that lived on as far as identification of the tribe.

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That's part of the history for some as well. From archeological evidence and some native oral histories, that isn't something that was new to the natives. There were lots of conflicts that predated Columbus that ended in the elimination of certain groups. Sometimes quickly and sometimes slowly. Often resulting in remnants being absorbed by other tribes or groups. At least that is what I have read. I have a cousin who is 1/4 Blackfoot, his mom was 1/2. She had a pretty unhealthy opinion of the Crow people. This idea of some sort of homogeneous people with little to no conflict in North America is a leftist fantasy.