Author Topic: McGIll Redmen  (Read 286 times)

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Offline Squidward von Squidderson

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Re: McGIll Redmen
« on: February 06, 2019, 12:30:35 am »
Maybe, depends on the context. The particular image of a Viking is not a Scandinavian but German and the horned helmets come from Vagner operas. If you dress a team in red and call it the Redmen, that is not an ethnic slur in itself.

I acknowledged that in the OP...   that if it had never been used in that way, I wouldn’t have an issue with the name.