Go Stanford Tree! -- er, I mean Cardinal, which in their context means a color, not a bird. That's the psychedelic gibberish that the Stanford administration, of all people -- with their conservative Hoover Institute, came up with, while dropping acid and doing magic mushrooms, to replace the innocuous Indians. If they want to change the nickname, fine, but pick one -- plant (Tree) or color (Cardinal) -- doesn't matter to me, but pick one.
They used to be the Indians, which to me is as innocuous as an all girls high school team nickname being the Angels, or a pro baseball team nickname being the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. But make no mistake, the Washington pro football team nickname is not innocuous. It's a pejorative used way back in the day to describe and dehumanize Native Americans so white settlers could justify killing them, and then take the natives land. Hey, how about paying for the land, and, if they don't want to sell, tough.
