If the people it parodies are offended, then its offensive. Different groups have different sensibilities and different buttons, what might not be offensive to you may be to others.

You might not find a "Brave" or a "Savage" mascot offensive, but then you're not qualified to judge.

I'm not surprised that Native Americans get offended when a bunch of white people...the same people who almost wiped them off the face of the planet...dress up in Native American clothes at football games and prance about like idiots. We might find it just a bit off good clean fun but we don't really see things from the perspective of the average Native American.

Its usually the same people who have a big hissy fit if a someone lets our flag touch the ground or stay up on a pole at night with out a bedside lamp who ask why Native Americans should get so bent out of shape about something so trivial as a mascot.

Funny that.

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"A society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy."
John Sawhill