McGill drops Redmen name, citing pain caused to Indigenous students - Sportsnet.ca

MONTREAL — McGill University has dropped the Redmen name for its sports teams, effective immediately.

"Today, ‘Redmen’ is widely acknowledged as an offensive term for Indigenous peoples, as evidenced by major English dictionaries," Fortier said. "While this derogatory meaning of the word does not reflect the beliefs of generations of McGill athletes who have proudly competed wearing the university’s colours, we cannot ignore this contemporary understanding."

One unnamed Indigenous student was quoted saying that seeing Redmen jerseys in the gym "felt like a dagger" and that being called a "Redman" made him sick, while another told the group she didn’t feel accepted in the university and "felt like a ghost."

Society. Stop the madness....

Silly stuff!

Wat bout the indigenous free ride from tax dollars I would say ur ancestors are dead time to get to fckn work if u even know wat tat is

The Chicago American League Baseball Club, has caused me a great deal of pain and alienation. Not sure I can go on.

timandsid

Welcome to 2019 mcgillu Real leaders 😂

Of course they will what else is new.

McGill PCs. New logo.

What do expect from Montreal

This is pathetic. Pain? Lol ok...It’s a colour. Get a life.

Red is a color, not a race.

Bull shit and does anybody support university sports in canada

How bout the McGill Snowflakes, that seems appropriate

timandsid 🙄

LMFAO “pain”?

If there were team names like the New York Jews or Georgia Cotton Pickers, people would be losing there minds. But teams like Washington using Redskins and Cleveland using a mascot named Chief Wahoo some how seems acceptable. Good for McGill. Dehumanizing First Nations must stop

timandsid Introducing the McGill White Men! LOL.

Team wasn’t named to show disrespect but team colours

Bowing to political correctness. Not good.

Thank Christ for that! I can't begin to imagine how many problems will have instantly dissipated into nothing with this noble and brave decision! 🙄

Just go with Reds

Fighting Hawks! Please change the name to Fighting Hawks! Please!

For anyone making light of this, Western Canada High School in Calgary did this AGES ago. About time McGill did the same, should just change the name & logo to this and see how y’all feel about it.

*hat tip* to McGill... Much respect for this decision..

Are you god damn serious? That is ridiculous. Wth is wrong with this world? This entire planet just gets worse everyday!

walsha My only thing is that they do not have any reference to any culture on their uniform....their color is red. Even if it started as something races based it no longer is. Can’t hold onto things forever and reach into the pat to be hurt by things that are not in place today.

timandsid Is it possible that sports teams took these effigies to honour the indigenous?

When do they go after the lacrosse team with the same name.

Gonna toss one of these in the old bottom lip before it ceases to exist.

Terrible name in the first place, like not even cause the drama here just legit a bad name lmao

Where did McGill originally get there funding to build in the first place?

Snowflakes strike again...

Pathetic its a team name not an insult

What’s the over/under on white boys being butt hurt over this name change?

about time.....

It's better than the Toronto Who Jays

So do they have to get rid of the colour red too? Unbelievable!

timandsid To anyone replying here that this is “snowflake culture” or “PC BS” or whatever, the name does not affect YOU and so your opinion is frankly irrelevant. There is no reason for McGill to continue using a name that causes pain to indigenous people. Try being empathetic for once.

timandsid 🙄

“Introducing the McGill...No Names”

timandsid Right call.

snowflakeculture

...good grief...lol

Oh for fuck sake.

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