The one I snarked "Hush, now. Don’t get all sensitive" to after the poster was being nasty says "removed" for me.

I see now I also snarked "Maybe chill from getting upset people are coming for your stereotypical imagery" to him in directly afterward. In context I was still ribbing him for talking shit. (But the context has been removed.)

I linked this article on people's issues with the Blackhawks logo elsewhere which I think covers a lot of ground. As Suzan Shown Harjo opines there:

For others, too, opposition to the use of the Blackhawks name and Indian logo hasn't changed since the last time Chicago played for the NHL title. Suzan Shown Harjo, Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee, president of the Morning Star Institute in Washington, D.C. and an ICTMN columnist, told the Tribune that the Blackhawks logo "lacks dignity. There's dignity in a school being named after a person or a people. There's dignity in a health clinic or hospital. There's nothing dignified in something being so named [that is used for] recreation or entertainment or fun."

Why is Native culture misappropriated for sports teams? Either to play on the image of the "savage" or the "noble savage," to artistically suggest the players are tough like the stereotype of the "primitive Indian."

I let my friend borrow my copy of Documents of West Indian History from me for a paper or I'd type up some of the awful first hand documents of the attitudes toward Native peoples that these sentiments arose from. (It's a good text to own, though, if you just want to see the first hand documents these people were writing and the insidious way some of their attitudes remain ingrained in modern culture.)

As per the previous article:

The typical Native logo, like the Blackhawks Indian, Harjo said, "relegates Native people to a certain time in history that's not today, and it's intended to do so. It's not something that reflects anything that's current. It kind of keeps us in the backwater of history."

The "Fighting Irish" idea is the same idea, to suggest that the players are playing tough and rough like the historical stereotype of the subhuman Irish back in and before the "No Irish Need Apply" days.

If you want to say your team is fierce, calling them the Predators or the Panthers or the Sharks or, here, perhaps the Kraken is fine.

Playing off dehumanizing tropes about actual groups of human beings is not fine, even if you're pretending it's laudatory by going the "fierce and also primitively noble" route.