OT: I agree with Kash Daniel
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Sounds like the DC superiority complex at work to me. It's exactly what the people there believe they are.
They totally messed up. WFT was unique, weird, but awesome.
Not the best for sure. FIrst thing you think of when naming a team is what will the shortened nickname be for folks to call them. What's that going to be for DC, the "Coms"? The "Commas"? The "Manders"? maybe the "Ders" like Vandy's Dores
I think this is a mediocre, but predictable name. What are they commanders of? The Redskins they took the previous name from? LOL just poking fun at the woke people that will find something racist or wrong with the commanders.
Commanders isn’t good but all new sports names sound weird at first then we just get used to them after a year. I remember OKC Thunder sounded terrible to me at the time now I don’t think about it. Only one that I still really don’t like is the Houston Texans.
Although I don't necessarily like the name Commanders, it's better than the Cleveland Guardians.
Washington Nixons, cuz the Richards or Dicks just wouldn't have sat well with some folks.
Washington Founders
Washington Crab Pots
Washington DCmen
Washington Crooks (that was an easy one)
Washington Monuments
Any of these would've been adequate compared to the milquetoast Commanders.
But uh... Yeah. Keep the list going below, fellas.
Washington Founders
Washington Crab Pots
Washington DCmen
Washington Crooks (that was an easy one)
Washington Monuments
Any of these would've been adequate compared to the milquetoast Commanders.
But uh... Yeah. Keep the list going below, fellas.
They will always be the Washington Redskins to me when talking about them. I’m not going along with their name games. I don’t watch pro games anymore anyway because of the politics involved.
The Beltway Bombers? Sorry, that sounds like the title to another cheesy episode of NCIS, or just bad marketing all the way around.
They should have been called the Commandos.
I was expecting something like the Washington Gender Neutral Skins.
Yep. I’ve never stopped using Redskins, and probably won’t anytime soon.
Ditto. Part of me had hoped they would just stay with the generic name they had. At first it was weird but started sounding more of a steeped in tradition thing as it went along.
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"Deceivers" has a nice ring to it. D-C'rs for short. Ongoing parade of mascots to choose from....
Washington Grays would fit also. Mascot could be an evil alien species that somewhat resembles both McConnell and Pelosi so as not to offend the politically sensitive...
I proposed "whitewashed" early in the process but never heard back from anyone.
Could have just dropped the "skins" part since they're always operating in the "Red" anyway.
What's wrong with being woke? Better yet, what's right with being racist?
Back when I was much younger and a product of my public school peers and church, I saw nothing wrong with "Rebels" or "Redskins." I got out into the world and far away from my small town and realized how damaging it is to be put on a savage, non-human level (Redskins, Colts, Wolves, Bears, Bulldogs, Lions) after having been wretched from ancestral lands.
It's also interesting to see how prominent sports figures express displeasure with teams glorifying the confederacy (Rebels with Confederate mascot, for example) and therefore the institution of slavery and the romanticized antebellum South. Certain friends in high school never brought it up, but began to use their voice once they escaped the echo chamber and could do so without serious repercussions.
That said, I do think the "woke" crowd goes overboard at times... If for no other reason than we tend to not pick our battles well. If everything is X-ism, then nothing is - harkening back to ca. 2015. Removal of indigenous symbology in sports mascots is a good movement, but it's definitely a decision that will draw ire from folks who don't like change, don't see anything wrong with it, or just hate bland renamings. I think we can all admit that Commanders is pretty weak ish.
I actually loved Washington Football Team. Gave the team a mystique of being the progenitor or a high authority of football. Made sense for a DC team, but still runs into the issue that the team sucks.
They missed the boat by not going with the Washington Red Tails. You keep the red in it and pay tribute to the Tuskegee airmen.
1) Literally everything. The most insufferable group of people.
2) You mistakenly act as if the woke crowd isn’t the most “r” bunch given the low expectations of everyone who isn’t white, the need to feel like a savior, and ah, never mind. This is a waste of time.
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I agree there is too much woke in society. I personally never found the term offensive and I'm part Native American. But just for the sake of argument, here's a rhetorical question. Suppose you were invited to speak to a group of Cherokees, or Lakotas at an event. Would you walk up to the podium and say "good morning, it's nice to see all you redskins today" ?
Best damn P-40 and P-51 pilots of the war. I like that idea a lot.
I think it's pretty telling that most people of the times in which these symbols were chosen were proud of them being chosen because of the reasons they were chosen, while mamy people of today look at them differently because they have been told and conditioned to think that way over decades in spite of the reasons why the symbols were chosen.
As a native american I always have been proud that my indigenous peoples and those related to them were chosen for their courage and fearlessness in the face of an enemy that was both superior in numbers and in weaponry. It is offensive to me and many others that people of today somehow believe that the peoples honored by these choices of symbols didn't know that many of their people were run off their land, murdered, brutalized, and had everything stolen from them in spite of treaties being signed in good faith with the government of this country. They knew that fully and had better knowledge of it than ANY of the people in the media moaning about it.
As for the Rebels symbology that so offends the charmin ultra soft with lotion types, they are the product of a diluted, national education system that doesn't care if they turn out intelligent or wise graduates. They teach to test and that's it. They don't teach that this country was founded BY REBELS. Kept alive BY REBELS. KEPT INTACT for over 100 yrs by REBELS that refused to let the national gov become federalized and omnipotent.
This entire country, a REPUBLIC, was created so that THE PEOPLE would be represented like they were and are no other place on this planet. REBELS against the political, religious, economic, and royal elite came together to give the people a voice and fought daily (even in Jefferson's day) for the people to have it. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to merely teach it. It wasn't enough to simply fight for it. It has failed because people ceased to stand up for their neighbor, their fellow citizen and human beings.
Many people won't testify against all criminals. They won't demand justice for all, but only for those "like" them. They refuse to take up arms against the people destroying their communities. It has become only about what they can get for themselves, however they can get it. They don't care if someone in another country is a slave in a polluted environment as long as they have their clothes, electric cars, shoes, phones, air pods, gaming platforms, social media, tvs, and junk food.
They don't care who is harmed by medical malpractice, medical errors, pharmaceutical drugs and treatments, harmful chemicals in our air, water, and food, food shortages, malnutrition, and starvation. As long as it ISN'T THEM, they're fine. THAT is why they project their own failures onto things that don't or can't fight back. That's why they change meanings and causes, rewrite history or ignore it when it suits them.
Most people think this country went to war because of this or that ideology when in fact it was simply because it was a politicial and financial boon to the rich and powerful that made money off of both sides hoping to control the side that was victorious. Vietnam, Korean "War," WW2, WW1, 7 Years War, US Civil War, Revolutionary War... The end result was always hoped to be the collapse of this country and feasting off of its remains, so that the world could return to the feudal days of not that long ago.
"Woke" is as empty a word as "cool," "hip," "down" and "square" were decades ago. Most noses can smell manure when they drive past a barn, but city folks would roll in it and call it "fresh" if they were told it would cure their ills and make them live longer. They're already ok with using aborted fetuses to make their skin look younger, and injecting toxins into their skin to eliminate wrinkles. Nobody wearing Nike products is "awake." Nobody using an iPhone or beats, or driving a hybrid is even "conscious." They are just FOS like the people at Woodstock that thought they were evolved and changing the world for the better because they were using drugs and being promiscuous.
For every year or two that people have shopped at BiggieMartUSA they've put a local shop out of business and made themselves or their future families slaves to mostly enslaved countries. When we all wake up tomorrow we will ALL still BE RESPONSIBLE for where we are and what we've done for better or worse for ourselves and others. No matter how we try to paint others and no matter how broad the brush we use, it won't change the fact that WE ARE OUR PROBLEM and no one else at whom we want to point fingers.
As a native american I always have been proud that my indigenous peoples and those related to them were chosen for their courage and fearlessness in the face of an enemy that was both superior in numbers and in weaponry. It is offensive to me and many others that people of today somehow believe that the peoples honored by these choices of symbols didn't know that many of their people were run off their land, murdered, brutalized, and had everything stolen from them in spite of treaties being signed in good faith with the government of this country. They knew that fully and had better knowledge of it than ANY of the people in the media moaning about it.
As for the Rebels symbology that so offends the charmin ultra soft with lotion types, they are the product of a diluted, national education system that doesn't care if they turn out intelligent or wise graduates. They teach to test and that's it. They don't teach that this country was founded BY REBELS. Kept alive BY REBELS. KEPT INTACT for over 100 yrs by REBELS that refused to let the national gov become federalized and omnipotent.
This entire country, a REPUBLIC, was created so that THE PEOPLE would be represented like they were and are no other place on this planet. REBELS against the political, religious, economic, and royal elite came together to give the people a voice and fought daily (even in Jefferson's day) for the people to have it. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to merely teach it. It wasn't enough to simply fight for it. It has failed because people ceased to stand up for their neighbor, their fellow citizen and human beings.
Many people won't testify against all criminals. They won't demand justice for all, but only for those "like" them. They refuse to take up arms against the people destroying their communities. It has become only about what they can get for themselves, however they can get it. They don't care if someone in another country is a slave in a polluted environment as long as they have their clothes, electric cars, shoes, phones, air pods, gaming platforms, social media, tvs, and junk food.
They don't care who is harmed by medical malpractice, medical errors, pharmaceutical drugs and treatments, harmful chemicals in our air, water, and food, food shortages, malnutrition, and starvation. As long as it ISN'T THEM, they're fine. THAT is why they project their own failures onto things that don't or can't fight back. That's why they change meanings and causes, rewrite history or ignore it when it suits them.
Most people think this country went to war because of this or that ideology when in fact it was simply because it was a politicial and financial boon to the rich and powerful that made money off of both sides hoping to control the side that was victorious. Vietnam, Korean "War," WW2, WW1, 7 Years War, US Civil War, Revolutionary War... The end result was always hoped to be the collapse of this country and feasting off of its remains, so that the world could return to the feudal days of not that long ago.
"Woke" is as empty a word as "cool," "hip," "down" and "square" were decades ago. Most noses can smell manure when they drive past a barn, but city folks would roll in it and call it "fresh" if they were told it would cure their ills and make them live longer. They're already ok with using aborted fetuses to make their skin look younger, and injecting toxins into their skin to eliminate wrinkles. Nobody wearing Nike products is "awake." Nobody using an iPhone or beats, or driving a hybrid is even "conscious." They are just FOS like the people at Woodstock that thought they were evolved and changing the world for the better because they were using drugs and being promiscuous.
For every year or two that people have shopped at BiggieMartUSA they've put a local shop out of business and made themselves or their future families slaves to mostly enslaved countries. When we all wake up tomorrow we will ALL still BE RESPONSIBLE for where we are and what we've done for better or worse for ourselves and others. No matter how we try to paint others and no matter how broad the brush we use, it won't change the fact that WE ARE OUR PROBLEM and no one else at whom we want to point fingers.
Another 50-100 years down the road those names won’t be politically correct either!
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