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<blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 4626839" data-attributes="member: 66082">This is a weird thread.&nbsp; I assume it was in response to the name change of Washington football team.&nbsp; But of course the example that&#039;s used isn&#039;t equivalent to that team&#039;s former name.&nbsp; It&#039;s a leprechaun, that comes from Irish mythology.&nbsp; That teams name was not based on a mythical native character.Here are the two sides of this debate, on one side are people saying hey this name offends my ethnicity/culture it should be changed.On the other side are people saying we don&#039;t care if it offends your ethnicity/culture and what you want doesn&#039;t matter.&nbsp; The opposition of the team&#039;s name change want to maintain the dominate cultural power to keep that name over the objection of the outgroup.&nbsp; For the opposition of the name change, the battle it is about saying &quot;WE&quot; get to decide if that name is acceptable.&nbsp; &quot;WE&quot; get to determine what&#039;s offensive, what is outside of polite society, not these whining lesser groups.&nbsp; It means they are losing power to them.&nbsp; This is why they get so upset.&nbsp; It&#039;s not about the name change per se, it what that name change represents to them, a lose of power to dictate what happens.This thing is a microcosm of most American political fights.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="refineryworker05, post: 4626839, member: 66082"] This is a weird thread. I assume it was in response to the name change of Washington football team. But of course the example that's used isn't equivalent to that team's former name. It's a leprechaun, that comes from Irish mythology. That teams name was not based on a mythical native character. Here are the two sides of this debate, on one side are people saying hey this name offends my ethnicity/culture it should be changed. On the other side are people saying we don't care if it offends your ethnicity/culture and what you want doesn't matter. The opposition of the team's name change want to maintain the dominate cultural power to keep that name over the objection of the outgroup. For the opposition of the name change, the battle it is about saying "WE" get to decide if that name is acceptable. "WE" get to determine what's offensive, what is outside of polite society, not these whining lesser groups. It means they are losing power to them. This is why they get so upset. It's not about the name change per se, it what that name change represents to them, a lose of power to dictate what happens. This thing is a microcosm of most American political fights. [/QUOTE]

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