This whole nonsense about the football team's name is about as silly as the people who are upset about the camel in the 'guess what day it is' commercials because using a camel might be offensive to some arabs. If the criteria for words we cannot say any more is that the word in question might offend someone, then we need to ban all words. I promise you that for any word we pick, someone somewhere will be offended by its use. In the words of a semi-famous person form a few years back, "stop the insanity".
I have never heard anyone being offended by the Ravens, Orioles, Capitals, Nationals, DC United or 99 percent of other sports names. Your argument is weak.
So just because you don't know about something means, never mind, I didn't notice who I was dealing with here.
Provide examples or your argument is as weak as it always is.
The camel issue is a perfect example. there are many people who are offended by the silly use of the term "n-word", as if we all don't know what word it refers to. When discussing the word 'nigger' as offensive as it is, are we not grown up enough that we can actually say the word we are talking about rather than saying "n-word" as if it made things any better? Truth be told 99% of the so called politically correct" terms are just plain offensive and silly.
I don't understand your point. I've never heard anyone offended by the euphemism "the n-word" being used in lieu of "nigger" and I live in a congressional district that just said Eric Cantor wasn't a sufficiently hateful, conservative loon for their liking.
I think atomic made an excellent point. He gave five other area sports team names and claims he's never heard anyone find their use offensive or racist. (Nor have I.) You're claiming any team name is going to offend someone but you don't explain how "Ravens, Orioles, Capitals, Nationals" would be offensive. What group would object to any of those and for what reason?
