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Should the Denver Nuggets change their name?

It sounds really close to an offensive word for African Americans. 

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  • Finch
    Lv 5
    3 weeks ago

    No

    We need to be more mentally tough and save our outrage for things that are actually offensive.

  • 4 weeks ago

    No why would they?

  • 4 weeks ago

    Yes. I would say the Denver NBA Team.

  • 1 month ago

    No, the team name is fine.

  • 1 month ago

    Yes, especially for what they did to the Bulls a few weeks ago, by pulling off a stunning, shocking come-from-behind victory behind our backs.

  • 1 month ago

    No, it's linked to the mining history of the area.

  • Anonymous
    1 month ago

    I think the New York Knickers sounds a lot closer

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 month ago

    African Americans is a more racist phrase 

  • 1 month ago

    sad to say, but there are already several schools in California that have removed team names and mascots that reference the Gold Rush so significant in the state's history...

    the argument is that, by spurring the state's growth and encouraging migration and settlement, the Gold Rush created "an era of exploitation and native genocide"... team names like "The Prospectors" and "49ers" have been erased....a school in San Francisco (which would not have achieved its status as a wealthy city without the Gold Rush) removed it's mascot, which was based on the iconic "Yosemite Sam" cartoon character as "offensive to natives"...

    it is therefore impossible to write this off as obvious trolling...

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