Can a team be called "The Bullies" or is that politically incorrect.?

Question

A new professional basketball team in Syracuse is nicknamed The Bullies and are getting flack from political correctness groups, who say this might turn kids into bullies. If you cannot name teams after positive role models such as Native Americans is this the other extreme? What can you name a team?

Answer 1

Either Natasha is given the 10 and is understood, or people are just ignorant and in denial.

Answer 2

You can name a team after animals or fictional figures or character traits. Native Americans are a people, a culture.

It is not honorable to name people after an ethnic group. Native people are not mascots.

Comment: The mascot honors Native people.

Response:
1st: Native people say that it doesn't. Why does your opinion count more than theirs? It is their people being misrepresented and hurt.

2nd: The Illini mascot misrepresets Native culture. The outfit worn by the mascot is not an Illini outfit. It belongs to the Sioux tribe which has a completely different culture. The mascot performs gymnastics and calls it a Native Fancy Dance. It is not a Native Fancy Dance, ask any Native dancer. The outfit is worn out of context and so is disrespecting Native culture. The outfit consits of sacred Native objects such as feathers that would not be traditionally used in such a way. The term Redskin means the bloody skin of a Native person, it refers to scalping. When people go to games with Native mascots they do the tomahawk chop. Imagine a Native child sitting in the audience while everyone is doing the tomahawk chop. How are any of the things listed above honorary? The bad certainly outways the good.