Posted on 05/20/2016 3:24:43 AM PDT by grundle
Some years back, Allentown/Bethlehem, PA, got a minor league baseball franchise. The name of the team is the Iron Pigs (a reference to the glory days of Bethlehem Steel Co.).
They solicited ideas and then votes for a team mascot and the one that won the contest was “Pork Chop”. ONE Puerto Rican complained that pork chop was a derogatory term for Puerto Ricans and the name was disqualified, despite the fact that numerous Puerto Ricans claimed they were not aware that pork chop was derogatory. They’d never heard such a thing.
So in the world of PC, ONE squeaky wheel is all it takes to override the opinions of many thousands.
Too bad. Pork Chop was such a cute name.
As long as I can have my Blazing Saddles, I’m happy. One of the funniest movies ever.
When administrations change, I want to see the same abuse heaped on the liberal left.
So does this mean I can print up a bunch a Redskin football T-shirts and sell them with giving up a royalty?
Schools with "Crusaders" as their mascot catch a lot of grief, but almost none of it is from actual Christians.
Bammy is a lefty. Therefore he is smarter than everyone else, & knows what is best for us.
Obama is the CEO of the federal government, so the blame for this has to go to him.
Yep. They crossed the land bridge from Asia. So technically, liberals who prefer to use hyphenated terms should refer to them as Asian-Americans, not native-Americans.
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