Whether it’s axing the beloved Aunt Jemima from the syrup bottle or removing the Native American woman from the butter tin, the renaming and erasing of “problematic” logos may, in hindsight, be the most vapid, performative, and ultimately useless of all the 2020-era woke excesses. This same culture revolution came for the National Football League, too, with the Washington Redskins, facing tremendous corporate and governmental pressure, finally scrapping their “offensive” name and mascot, even though 90% of actual Native Americans were not offended by it. When you think about it, it’s the sensibilities of white liberals that really matter, no?
Yet, five years later, the infamous “Redskins” branding could be making a comeback, if President Donald Trump gets his way. He sparked a firestorm Sunday by writing on Truth Social, “The Washington ‘Whatever’s’ should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team. There is a big clamoring for this. Our great Indian people, in massive numbers, want this to happen. Their heritage and prestige is systematically being taken away from them. Times are different now than they were three or four years ago. We are a Country of passion and common sense. OWNERS, GET IT DONE!!!”
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