N/S PTO rules that "Redskins" is derogatory (not a case about the NFL team but likely precedent)

RajCaj80 said

I sure hope the Saints team name & decal get to hang around then. I'm fairly certain you could find at least 136 "Freedom From Religion" types that take offense to the use of a religious based name & symbol to represent the city of New Orleans....especially considering they receive tax payer dollars.<O:p</O:p
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Just curious, would you guys (that support the removal of the Redskins name) support changing the team name & symbol of the New Orleans NFL team if someone was able to get 500-1000 signatures to change it, based on offense taken due to its religious connotations?<O:p</O:p

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It's not a fair analogy at all. The idea isn't that some threshold amount of people find the name vaguely offensive for some reason. The conclusion of the agency here was that the name was disparaging to a group of people. While "Saints" has a religious connotation, it isn't disparaging or derogatory. It doesn't have a negative connotation or history with respect to those it implicates.

The idea isn't some entirely subjective concept of offensiveness. That could never lead to any applicable standard. Magicians could protest the Orlando Magic. Zookeepers and naturalists could protest any team with an animal name.

That's not what is happening here.