What IS the reason for all this nonsense? Maybe it's the heat. Maybe it's the fact they don't have anything better to do. Or, maybe it's because THEY'RE NUTS!!
UH, nuts would also be on the banned list. ;-)
It's simple: Liberals have an absolutely stranglehold on our education system, from kindergarten through university. This latest insane display of political correctness is yet one more confirmation that it is high time for some civil disobedience in such issues. It's time for a few major universities who have major clout through the fact that they generate huge sums of cash through their athletic programs, to stand up and publicly say, "Sorry, no more." We won't change our mascot, and we dare you to try to ban us from something we earn on the field/court/whatever."
Responses like that are the ONLY thing that will bring this insanity into check, but such responses never happen. We in this country have become so conditioned to sucking up and taking it, or by deluding ourselves into thinking we can change things like this with our votes. It's past time for such responses, because a miniscule splinter group of goofy radical liberals have been shoving their idiotic notions down everybody's throat for around thirty years now. Enough is enough.
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