Posted on 02/08/2021 3:28:47 AM PST by C19fan
Football fans have blasted a historian's woke op-ed which claims that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' name is problematic for 'romanticizing' cutthroat pirates.
Jamie L.H. Goodall, a staff historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History, published her Washington Post op-ed on Friday ahead of Super Bowl LV, in which the Buccaneers faced off against the Kansas City Chiefs for the NFL championship.
'While this celebration of piracy seems like innocent fun and pride in a local culture, there is danger in romanticizing ruthless cutthroats who created a crisis in world trade when they captured and plundered thousands of ships on Atlantic trade routes,' Goodall wrote.
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The more these people make fools of themselves the better I say.
No, the Air Force has "leasers." When you tell a service to "secure a building," I believe the Air Force is the one that takes out a 20-year lease with an option to buy.
Obama made sure our military was filled with SJWs and the old guard pushed aside (generals/admirals terminated).
Biden will ensure the job is finished. They are now “cleansing” the ranks of anyone who is loyal to the US Constitution.
Top leadership positions will be filled with even more radical SJWs loyal to their communist party leaders.
We saw how these military members undermined Trump at every turn. Now, they will undermine us as well, painting us as domestic terrorists and dangerous threats that must be eliminated.
Latching onto the silliness of their positions ignores the real threat....the seriousness of their hate for us.
when they captured and plundered thousands of ships...
ships who stole their cargoes from innocent and nature loving NATIVE AMERICANS! Oh NOES!
Idiocracy is here...it lives.
“The more these people make fools of themselves the better I say.“
Most troubling is the number of fools who tale them seriously.
Next thing you know they’ll want you to shave your beard because you look like James Longstreet.
Also, buccaneers helped England defeat the Spanish Armada and saved potentially thousands of lives.
“ “The more these people make fools of themselves the better I say.“
Most troubling is the number of fools who tale them seriously.”
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For sure. I think the Cancel Culture people who toss this crap out even surprise themselves by the number of fools who take them seriously and buy into their bazaar statements. 🙄
Suggest that the Washington Redskins, Errrr Football Team change it’s name to the Deep Staters. They’re real life crooks, thieves, cutthroats and boatless pirates in DC. Why should the Tampa Bay Buccaneers get all the glory?
Next thing you know they’ll want you to shave your beard because you look like James Longstreet
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You’re not far off. All white males born pre 1980 will be deemed irreparably racist; the19th century whites equivalent to Hitler. Any resemblance in appearance such as the beard will be tantamount to wearing a Hitler mustache.
I guess the 100 year old Pirate Feast in Tampa will need to be canceled too.
What’s fair is fair.
Why is it o.k. to glorify pirates, but not redskins? Vikings, and not Indians? Celtics and not - may I ask - redmen?
I’m gonna say here that pirates have been romanticized since movable type put books in to the hands of everyone.
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Were the Washington Redskins romanticizing native Americans? I thought the woke crowd said it was racist.
What about the Carolina Panthers? Should PETA complain about some alleged thought crime regarding that name?
If she had written an essay on how blacks glorify gangsta thugs, she would have been cancelled.
Pirates were the original gangsta thugs.
Just lop off the last four letters and make it the "Washington Reds".
Plenty were involved in slave transportation.
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