The Racial Slur Database - "Yankee" (Is it time to ban the 'Yankees'?)

The Racial Slur Database ^

[11th_VA]

Slang used primarily by the British. Also used in the former Confederate states to refer to people of the Union states. Origins can be traced to the Ottowa Indians calling the English, "Yang-gees," which morphed into "Yankees" by the British who then took that home after the French and Indian war in 1763.

[11th_VA]

It is a slur and they need to be banned - at least in Baltimore and Boston ...

[envisio]

Are they going to ban ‘hick’? redneck? hillbilly?

[PGR88]

I’m offended by Notre Dame’s mascot.

[treetopsandroofs]

Yangs bad, Cohms good.

/s

[ScottinVA]

What about Oakland Athletics? My gawd, what an egregious affront to the less athletic among us! And about those San Francisco Giants! Thousands of people suffer from gigantism in this country and certainly one or two of them would be offended!

And don’t get me started on those Golden State Warriors or Notre Dame Fighting Irish!

[Vigilanteman]

When I lived down south briefly, they told me that it wasn’t a slur as long as it was correctly spoken and spelled as the word ‘damnyankee’. It was just a descriptive noun.

[Dr. Thorne]

The Cincinnati Reds is a slur against Communists.

[11th_VA]

They don’t have teams named after them, but the ‘Y@nk%%$’ do ...

[C210N]

Should force Frito-Lay to change the name of Cracker Jacks... very offensive to me!

[no-to-illegals]

Wait till peta finds out animals are involved ....

[Almondjoy]

Don’t forget Cracker Barrel.

[glennaro]

Micro-Soft — Now that trademark name can certainly be offensive to some, uh, insecure men (not me, of course!)

[Red Badger]

How long before someone is offended by the name ‘Patriots’?.............sounds dangerously like Tea Party types...............

[rktman]

What about Kiwis? Like calling New Zealanders fruit. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) :>}

[11th_VA]

“Cracker Jacks” yes that is another one. Isn’t there a way to put in a White House poll to ban the name ‘Yankees’ ??? I’m sure we could get 100,000 people to sign on ...

[wolfpat]

Then you ought to REALLY be offended by Syracuse University’s mascot.

Orangemen are to the Irish what Hamas or Hezbollah are to the Israelis.

[Red Badger]

or Graham Crackers................

[buffyt]

I am part Cherokee, part Irish, part British, Scottish, Dutch, French.... I am highly offended by EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE! LOL I grew up in a town where our high school team mastcot was a CHIEFTAIN! We were the Jr Chiefs and the HS Chieftains! And our town was named after a local real live INDIAN CHIEF! And his family is AWESOME

[wolfpat]

Seattle?

[Red Badger]

How about ‘White’ Sox or ‘Red’ Sox............it’s very demeaning...................