Posted on 02/17/2024 5:59:40 PM PST by Red Badger
Lily Gladstone's not happy with the Super Bowl champs' name ... and she says the NFL runner-ups' mascot ain't much better.
The actress and activist spoke during a Santa Barbara International Film Festival panel last weekend, before the Chiefs defeated the 49ers ... and ripped Chiefs fans' use of the tomahawk chop -- a hand gesture and chant used by fans of teams with Native American mascots.
LG said the gesture is a reminder of what Hollywood has done to Native Americans ... pointing out the chant was used in old Westerns before indigenous actors were given the opportunity to play major roles in the movie.
Gladstone said she gets upset when people say the chant is meant as a sign of "honor" ... calling it the "commodification" of her people as well.
These arguments are pretty common among activists and groups ... but, Lily also mentioned the San Francisco 49ers as another example of an offensive mascot.
Lily pointed out settlers -- called 49ers -- who went West looking for gold harkened "an incredibly brutal time for California Indians" ... so an NFL team using that moniker's not totally blameless either.
BTW ... protests against the Chiefs' name take place from time to time -- with one kicking off before their Super Bowl LVII victory last year over the Philadelphia Eagles.
Other pro sports franchises -- like the Cleveland Guardians in MLB and Washington Commanders -- have already changed their names in the face of criticism ... though their original names were pretty clear red flags for activists.
Bottom line ... Lily's saying it's not always the most directly linked name with offensive roots.
I hate the chop, but not because someone thinks it’s racist.
In the future the A’s from Government Housing Authority 56 will play the B’s from Corporate Commune NW 12. Dystopian.
The most offensive mascot name in all of sports...... Yankees.
Who the eff is Lily Gladstone and why should anyone give a crap about her opinion?
They are starting the drumbeat for the Chiefs to change their name.
I knew it was only a matter of time, some sniveling little liberal would be ‘offended’ by them, then when they ultimately do change it, and they will, the libtard will look for another victim to be ‘offended’ at.............IT NEVER STOPS...............
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_Gladstone
She had a major part in a Hollywood movie so now she thinks her opinions matter to people...................
“she gets upset when people say the chant is meant as a sign of “honor” ... calling it the “commodification” of her people as well.”
Her people? She been following the buffalo again? Wandering the prairie? This actress is getting a little full of herself.
The “offensive” word is never really the point, the real point is forcing the underclass to acknowledge their masters in submission.
Who Lily Gladstone? And why did se invent those bags?
“The ‘issue’ is never the ‘issue’. The issue is always The Revolution.”......
I don’t know what the Indians called their leaders but I’m sure it wasn’t “Chief”
“Chief comes from the French term chef, which originates from the Latin word caput, both of which refer to the head of a group.”
Native Americans probably use something like leader, headman.... but they didn’t use chief.
Chief is the anglicized version of chef.
So this argument is stupid because the etymology wasn’t consulted.
A fat, ugly woman talks…
How could an opinion be less meaningful?…
It’s actually a compliment.
People like this just need to off themselves and stop being so miserable.
I was wondering why the Chiefs had kept their name, when we were forced to give up our Redskins name...
“Who Lily Gladstone? And why did se invent those bags?”
Because we have to exercise our middle fingers now and then.
The Kansas City Chiefs were named for H. Roe Bartle, the mayor of Kansas City in the early 1960s. Nicknamed “Chief,” Mayor Bartle was instrumental in attracting Lamar Hunt’s American Football League franchise, the Dallas Texans, to Kansas City in 1963.
All she had to do is Google this.
They don’t let facts get in the way of their ideology................
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