The baseball team known as the Cleveland Indians for the past 105 years is planning to change its name. This is because the name has been deemed "offensive" to those people who used to be known as "Indians" but one day decided that the very word was offensive, so now they are called Native Americans.
I can't help but wonder how the name hurt anyone. In fact, it seems rather an honor to have a professional team of athletes who each make millions of dollars named after your ethnic group. And baseball is not a deadly sport played by drug addicts or criminals in prison. Also, they weren't the Cheap Cleveland Indians or the Drunk Cleveland Indians, just the Cleveland Indians. But still, that's somehow bad.
I wonder, has anyone checked to see if perhaps Cleveland is the problem? What if they were the Fabulous Ohio Indians? Or the Special Ohio Indians? Anyway, I suggest they change the name to the Cleveland Native Americans. Surely that would be okay.
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