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Florida State to sue NCAA over mascot-nickname rule
AP via Tampa Bay channel 10 ^ | August 6, 2005 | staff

Posted on 08/06/2005 7:42:33 AM PDT by cloud8

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What will turn the tide of PCness? A victory for Indian-named sports teams? It would be a step in the right direction.
1 posted on 08/06/2005 7:42:34 AM PDT by cloud8
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This Gator says "Go Noles!"

NCAA = National Communist Athletic Association


2 posted on 08/06/2005 7:44:34 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Isn't the team name sanctioned by the Seminole tribe?


3 posted on 08/06/2005 7:44:56 AM PDT by Gwaihir
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PC run amok.


4 posted on 08/06/2005 7:45:39 AM PDT by TommyDale
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Seems that the PC crowd is reduced to defining "victims" who don't consider themselves victims. Good for the Seminoles.


5 posted on 08/06/2005 7:45:45 AM PDT by yeetch! (Enjoy the good times (these are the good old days)!)
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To: TommyDale

PCAA?


6 posted on 08/06/2005 7:46:53 AM PDT by Lord Basil (Hate isn't a family value; it's a liberal one.)
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I wonder if the Native American movement would be happy if it was forbidden to ever mention them, their tribe names, or acknowledge that they ever existed, so then they could never be offended.

Maybe that is what is needed - bring any mention of an Indian tribe down to the same level as the N word, never say it.


7 posted on 08/06/2005 7:47:57 AM PDT by GaltMeister (“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”)
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"What will turn the tide of PCness? A victory for Indian-named sports teams?"

How about the universities do to the NCAA brainstems essentially what the individual union memberships did to the AFL-CIO?
*Fire* 'em.

"It would be a step in the right direction."

...it certainly would.

8 posted on 08/06/2005 7:47:59 AM PDT by Landru (Ahhhh the bravery of being out of range... *sweet*.)
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The pc liberals have been trying this for years..looks like they finally got their wish...except we got a lot of Nole alumni who are lawyers and think we can beat this crap. This is ridiculous. We have permission from the Seminole tribe in Florida to use their name. This is bs.


9 posted on 08/06/2005 7:48:41 AM PDT by Shaka
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> Isn't the team name sanctioned by the Seminole tribe?

Yes it is, there was an article posted here in June about it
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1426445/posts


11 posted on 08/06/2005 7:50:31 AM PDT by cloud8
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I'm waiting for a team to change its name to the Fighting Plankton


12 posted on 08/06/2005 7:51:22 AM PDT by teacherwoes (If you can read this...thank a caring teacher)
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To: Gwaihir

See link in

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1457858/posts?page=56#56

Florida State to Challenge Ban on Mascots (NCAA ban)
AP via Yahoo ^ | 02/05/2005 | Michael Marot
Posted on 08/05/2005 6:54:00 PM EDT by zencat


13 posted on 08/06/2005 7:52:24 AM PDT by bwteim (Begin With The End In Mind)
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Appreciate the support, will do the same when PETA comes after you.

Of course, this in no way means we like each other. LOL

14 posted on 08/06/2005 7:55:46 AM PDT by 11Bush (No outstanding felonies, but my life has been one long misdemeanor.)
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I'm waiting for a team to change its name to the Fighting Plankton


15 posted on 08/06/2005 7:55:51 AM PDT by dfwgator
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PC libs will lose this one. No way the FL Seminole crowd is going to put away their Seminole-logo'd stuff.


16 posted on 08/06/2005 7:56:01 AM PDT by Swanks
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To: cloud8

I guess Notre Dame's Leprechaun with an attitude is sill OK.


18 posted on 08/06/2005 7:57:08 AM PDT by Semper Paratus
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This argument has never been about Indians being upset over team names and logos. It's been about Liberals being upset on their behalf as they desperately search for another victim class.


19 posted on 08/06/2005 7:57:25 AM PDT by speedy
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I am so pissed right now..unreal.

Here's the pc idiot in all her glory:

http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/faculty/results.cfm?id=1986


20 posted on 08/06/2005 7:59:10 AM PDT by Shaka
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