Posted on 04/27/2019 8:38:49 AM PDT by DFG
Lots of sports nicknames, besides Indian nicknames, can be considered offensive by some liberal types.
San Francisco 49ers is considered offensive due to the association with 1849 and the California gold rush.
There are many others I’m sure . Boston Celtics must be offensive to the Celtic people.
Pittsburgh Steelers is offensive to real steel workers.
Green Bay Packers is offensive to real meat packers.
Minnesota Vikings is offensive as it’s an ethnically inspired nickname, which as we see with Indian nicknames, are verboten in today’s world.
Dallas Cowboys is offensive to real cowboys.
San Diego Padres, Los Angeles Angels, and New Orleans Saints must be offensive to the Catholic Church and all people of faith.
Any others ? Are all the animal nicknames offensive to the PETA crowd??
That’s sexist. Gender fluid is all the rage. What about species diversity? Don’t inanimate objects get a chance? Best to do away with mascots altogether so no one and no thing gets offended.
Eventually it will be the Dallas Somethings vs the Detroit Whatevers.
Reminds me of Rush’s old bit where he used the enviromental wacko method of picking NFL game winners.
...or the Stanford team name, “The Cardinal.” Not the bird. The color. How innocuous and bland can you get?
They should give the campus land back to the Indians.
It’s an alien mindset to me. If I had to speculate,
I’d say it avoids combative masculine icons, and
discourages individualism. But they got a gorgeous campus.
That makes no sense. The university is run by freaks who should leave America, now.
Stanford was way ahead of the current “woke” curve. They dropped the Indian 47 years ago! The Indian was the mascot for only 42 years.
1892 - Following its win over Cal in the first-ever Big Game, the color cardinal was picked as the primary color of Stanford’s athletic teams.
1930 - Adopted the mascot “Indian”
1972 - The Indian symbol and name dropped
1972 - 1981 - Official nickname returned to “Cardinals,” a reference to the color, not the bird
1981 - Athletic teams officially represented by the color cardinal in its SINGULAR form
Stanford has no official mascot, but the Stanford Tree, a member of the Stanford Band wearing a self-designed tree costume, appears at major Stanford sports events.
It does make sense. Prospectors swarmed in by the tens of thousands in 1849 with bigger numbers arriving in the ensuing years. The Indians lost all their ancestral lands, just like all over the U.S. There were good sized Indian wars in California starting in 1850 with lots of massacres on both sides.
What is that, a pipe bomb ?
The small college in my hometown changed its team name from “Chiefs” to “Mustangs” because it didn’t want to melt any snowflakes. I took a couple of classes there and they send me all kinds of letters mooching money. I always send the donor cards back with a note telling them that when they have the guts to change the name back, I’ll consider contributing something.
“Any others ?”
Sure! Milwaukee Bucks, a “buck” was a term used by racists in reference to a large, muscular black man. So that team needs a new name as well!
In the 1700s and early1800s a buck was dollar because hunters killed deer and brought them to town and sold them for a buck. The poor innocent deer.
Corpus Christi is Spanish?
I know as 1/2* Italian I am more Latino than
most Latinxs, but still...
*43%
“Cowboys” is sexist. Maybe “Bovine Managers”?
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