Attack of the Nannies

Townhall ^ | August 22, 2005 | John Leo

[AliVeritas]

Polls keep showing that American Indians aren’t really offended by college team nicknames such as warriors, braves, Indians, Seminoles, and Fighting Illini. But many sportswriters, campus “diversity” officials, and now the National Collegiate Athletic Association think they ought to be. So the NCAA says it will ban from championship play all college teams with “hostile or abusive” nicknames and mascots. It apparently took this action without consulting tribal leaders. “It’s like history-they left the natives out,” said Max Osceola, a member of the tribal council of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, which approves the use of the Seminole mascot and nickname long used by Florida State. “They have nonnatives telling natives what’s good for them.” Here we are confronted by the dreaded social disease of nannyism, the irrepressible urge toward do-good coercion.

[aShepard]

Maybe the schools should just pay the tribe for some "naming rights".

Everyone responds to money!

[neodad]

Do we have to change the helicopter names too? Apaches, Blackhawks, Comanches, etc.

[Piquaboy]

Political Correctness running amuck.

[SlowBoat407]

Tell me how it's an insult to name a team for a group that supposedly embodies the ideals of that team such as strength, perseverance, and cohesion.

[Desron13]

If you think about it, there really are no politically correct names that would still be acceptable to the teams in question. What are they going the call themselves, The Fuzzy Bunnies? The Pink Flamingos? I sense whirlpool, a spiraling down into the very bowels of PC insanity approaching. RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

[shezza]

Just wait till the FDA gets a hold of the Scottsdale Community College Fighting Artichokes!

[joylyn]

Isn't Stanford's mascot a tree, or something of the sort? Part of the agenda is to remove any allusion to fighting, war, courage, toughness and the like. How about the Florida State Ferns?

[capt. norm]

Attack of the Nannies

I wouls call it "Attack of the Ninnies".

[neodad]

Isn't Stanford's mascot a tree, or something of the sort? Part of the agenda is to remove any allusion to fighting, war, courage, toughness and the like. How about the Florida State Ferns?

Wait until PETA starts complaining about animal names: Buffalo, Falcons, Eagles, Horned Frogs, etc..

[lOKKI]

Names which link wrongly certain groups with association to violence are wrong, but they are only a symptom of a larger problem:

All sports are based on competitiveness and aggression. There is often abusive behavior of opponents during sports. Football is an example of a sport where the treatment of opposing players tantamount to torture. (Note that the protective gear that the players get isn't the best possible, and that many injuries could be prevented by better gear for all. Everyone, at evey level, should immediately have the best safety equipment that science can develop.)

To my main point: All sports should be banned unless score-keeping (which promotes aggressiveness) is stopped. All physical contact should be prevented since some may be injured. Children, especially could be hurt for life by exposure to competitive behavior, as well as physical injury. Even a tennis ball could put out an eye. The world will never know peace until all this promotion of "practice war" is halted. If the argument is that children need physical activity to burn off energy, there is always dancing.

[Steve_Seattle]

"and now we hear calls to force restaurants to offer smaller portions" [from the main article]

This is relevant to me because I've just been diagnosed Type II diabetic. I don't think restaurants should be forced to do this, but it would be a good business practice to offer smaller portions (to those who want them) without the customer having to start asking the waiter to make all sorts of personal changes to the menu, which is embarrassing to the customer and annoying to the waiter. The restaurant I usually go to is going to lose my business because the portions are WAY too big for diabetics.

[SlowBoat407]

You forgot the "/emasculated barking moonbat with no remaining sense of pride, accomplishment or excellence" tag.

[suzyq5558]

Florida Fuzzies maybe? or the fighting touchy feelies? the tummy ticklers? the mighty group huggers. these people are way beyond nannys they are nincompoops.

[SlowBoat407]

Let me just say that if this nanny attacks, I won't put up much of a fight.

[Martin Tell]

Satire, right?

[JennysCool]

Smaller portions? Why not just eat less of whatever portion appears on the plate?

[mollynme]

they are nincompoops

Now there's a good name!

The Nattering Nincompoops

LOL

[Pessimist]

This is exactly how the PC movement is winning: gradually. No one really believes in it, but nonetheless we all go along w/ it. Bit by bit, their basic beliefs become ingrained in our culture.

[Codeflier]

Surely you are joking, right? Why not just eat less of a large serving size and take the rest home for a meal the next day? I don't understand why people would want to pay the same amount of money for smaller portions.