ERIK THE RED ROLLS OVER IN HIS GRAVE

Powerline ^ | 19 Jan 2022 | John Hinderaker

[Rummyfan]

In recent years, a remarkable amount of attention has been paid to sports teams’ mascots. God forbid that a team be called the Indians, the Redskins, the Redmen or the Fighting Sioux. You can’t be the Bullets, either. But through it all, I have been confident that my home football team’s name, the Vikings, can’t be challenged. Who could possibly complain?

I underestimated the Left’s tireless search for micro aggressions. It turns out that naming your team the “Vikings” is indeed problematic:

Western Washington University may scrap its Viking mascot and is currently conducting an investigation to help make a final decision on the issue.

Several years ago, WWU considered whether the Viking mascot should go, because it was “hyper-masculine” and “aggressive.” Well, yeah. That is kinda the point. This is why we name teams the Lions, Tigers, Bears, Fighting Sioux, Wolves, Falcons, Trojans, Gators, Bulldogs, Bison, and so on. But the current attack on the Viking mascot is different....

[teeman8r]

northern vikings of baltimore city here. go vikings.

b conference co champs 1980

[Don Corleone]

How about “The Pansies”?

[NTHockey]

Private Girls school (Catholic) has as its mascot, PANDAS.

Nothing more needs to be said.

[Liz]

LOL.......

[Ahithophel]

Perhaps the WWU Fauna.

[Lmo56]

Or the Ball State Fighting Lettermans ...

[Jim Noble]

I’m using genetic genealogy to trace my history back, by now, into the 800-900AD time frame.

It does appear that the dating customs of the vikings were not exactly what we would consider appropriate today.

[deweyfrank]

There is a High School in my State called “Sallies”.

[D Rider]

Pansies, powder puffs(this may be a gender micro aggression), nightingales... etc.

struggling to come up with an acceptable list of mascot names. We could use a diverse set of lettered groups to help in the generation of acceptable, non-offending names to choose from.

[moovova]

I vote we rename teams...Team #1, Team #2, Team #3., etc.

But...numbers are racist.

Maybe we could rename them after food.

[moovova]

"There is a High School in my State called “Sallies”."

There is the respectable term "sally forth" which I've always thought was interesting. But nowadays...it could hurt half the country's feelings because it requires one to leave a "safe place" to do something "brave".

Per Cambridge Dictionary:

sally forth

-to leave a safe place in a brave or confident way in order to do something difficult:

"The minister opened the door and sallied forth to face the angry crowd."

[Larry Lucido]

I don’t know about Eric, but his brother Rudolph knows rain, dear.

[Larry Lucido]

Dang.

Erik.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Stanford used to be the Indians which they changed to Cardinal, not the bird, but the color. And they have an innocuous tree as a mascot.

Fear the darker shade of red!

[packagingguy]

Or the geldings.

[TBP]

The leading high school on the Navajo reservation, Red Mesa High School, which has a student body that is about 98 percent Navajo, calls its teams the REDSKINS!!!

[carcraft]

We could have the Washington wussies, the Portland Pussie Whipped etc

[rellimpank]

—(groan)—

[Larry Lucido]

:-)