My latest in PJ Media:
It has been a year and a half, but our long national nightmare is finally drawing to a close: in less than a month, the NFL team formerly known to its everlasting shame as the Washington Redskins is going to choose a new name. The chosen moniker will be offered in order to appease even the perpetually offended woke legions that forced the team to drop its original name, which it had borne since 1933. If you think all this is howlingly stupid, that’s only because it is.
The 87-year-old team name was ditched because the team finally succumbed during the George Floyd riots to the intense woke pressure to which it was being subjected. The assumption was that the name “Redskins” was white supremacist and disparaging to American Indians, and there was no opportunity given for any rational discussion on the matter. In reality, the team was called the “Redskins” out of admiration for the strength and courage of the Native Americans and a desire to project the same virtues. The idea that a sports team name disparages those who bear the name is a ridiculous proposition that rests on the absurd premise that teams are named for things that people despise.
The closest that ever came to being true was in the two previous major league baseball franchises in Washington, both of which were known as the Senators. It’s a pity the Washington Senators don’t exist today because if there ever was a disparaging team name, that was it. If the Redskins name had to be dropped because it insulted American Indians, the Senators name would have had to go because it insulted not the 100 solons in the Capitol building, but the poor baseball players who had to play under a name that referred to corrupt kleptocrats, hacks, and pigs at the public trough.
The renaming of sports teams with supposedly offensive names is of a piece with the pulling-down of statues of Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses S. Grant, Frederick Douglass, and other American heroes. The idea is to intimidate Americans into being ashamed of our own history and cultural heritage and to accustom us to the idea that the old order is breaking down and being replaced by something radically new, which will require us to adjust our attitudes and submit to the superior judgment of our woke masters. The things we took for granted or even loved — the Washington Redskins, the Cleveland Indians — are suddenly offensive and must be repudiated as part of the brave new multicultural society we are building.
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BexarKat says
I really hope they select my submission. As they represent our Capitol and all of Washington DC, I expect them to choose: The Washington Goniffs as their name. Their mascot can be a scrawny ancient white female with bad plastic surgery and a very sinister grin on an excessively large mouth..
commonsense says
Brilliant! Thanks!
commonsense says
For those readers who are unaware, “goniff” is Yiddish for thief.
tom parry says
The Washington KNEELERS, their Jersy will picture Kovinak and on the back Floyd (not pink floyd) but he real hero Geroge named after Washington.
Bad Penguin says
I think the name Washington Eunices would be a great name. Says everything about the teams owners and management.
jewdog says
How about the Washington Victims? Then, if they lose, it’s not fair, and that fits in with the usual victimization glorification of the Left. If you think that’s too defeatist, then maybe the Washington Palestinians, which is a little more subtle.
Infidel says
While they are at it, shouldn’t they get rid of the name of Washington, who was a slaveowner after all? They could just call it the DC Anifas, and grab that name before another team does
Incidentally, a Merry Sixthmas to everybody on this January 6th day, the most sacred day for every Dem and RINO out there. This new holiday so branded by Andrew Wilkow
Kenneth J Johnson says
Has anyody bothered to ask members of the American Indian communuities what they think of the name “Redskins”?? I rather think not. KEN
somehistory says
When people are expecting a baby, they may consider naming it after the father, or a beloved relative living or long gone. It is considered an honor to have a child named after one.
On a Sherlock Holmes episode from the ’50’s, a couple was considering naming a child after Dr. Watson…”John” or after Holmes…”Sherlock.” Both men were pleased with the idea.
It’s really stupid to decide that the Redskins, the Chiefs, and even the Florida Seminoles having those names is insulting to Native Americans The players on each team try to win. Winning in the name of others should be viewed as an honor.
Of course, those who insisted that these names are insulting, have an agenda and it isn’t something of which to be proud or glad. It’s to make this country like china…controlled by a small group of dictators who have no common sense or sense of morality. They are working to make normal things seem wrong and to insist they must be destroyed; to make way for them to rule in hatred.
James Lincoln says
The “DC WOKERS”.
somehistory says
Appeasers, Losers,…nothing will be *right*…or likely accepted by those insisting on name change.
PMK says
The “DC Dopes”.
Forfeiting decades of team history in the name of wokeism
gravenimage says
Former Washington Redskins to Pick Their New, Politically Correct Name From Seven Candidates on Feb. 2
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There was a time not so long ago when I followed and enjoyed pro sports–now, not so much…
Ramon Valcarcel says
I have the perfect name for Washington, they should be called THE WASHINGTON POLITICIANS!!!
How about that for a new name.
OLD GUY says
I also have lost interest in professional sports, but on behalf of the players I would not label them in the same low life group as out Washington politicians. However both Pro-sports and Politicians seem to be all about money, maybe just call them the Washington Skins.