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And Now the Lefty Mob Comes After Professional Baseball...
Townhall ^ | Jul 14, 2020 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 07/14/2020 12:30:42 PM PDT by TBP

The political correctness mob is now coming after professional baseball. This was on the horizon. When the lefty mob scalped the Washington Redskins, whose new name is unknown, this was bound to happen. If you give the Left an inch, they'll take several hundred miles. You cannot give an inch of land.

First, no one has said this nation never had horrible and tragic periods of racial discrimination, hatred, and violence. And yet, we've progressed. A lot more work needs to be done, but this fetish with the Left and bringing up bad memories isn't meant to serve. It's meant to denigrate and force us into their sad and depressing view of America. And yet, people still want to come here for the very same reasons as an immigrant family who comes here the right way: opportunity. It's easy to become an American culturally. Our three major tenets are: work hard, defend what's yours, and love and protect your family. In fact, that's pretty universal among Western society.

The point is, you learn from history and not repeat it by talking about it and reminding one's society of its shortfalls but not by instituting a cultural ethos that prevents one from progressing because they're so obsessed with the very dark periods in 19th-century history. Changing a baseball team's name isn't going to erase the Texas Rangers. Also, you need to pick your battles. Do you go after real racists, maybe those running for office whose past remarks have been exposed or do you die on the hill that will certainly piss people off and make more folks roll their eyes—and rightfully so—by fighting to change a baseball team's name?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: basaeball; leftists; texasrangers
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To: TBP

How about the Texas GOYAS? That’ll melt a few snowflakes. “Above all else the devil cannot stand to be mocked”- CS Lewis


21 posted on 07/14/2020 1:01:47 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: Colinsky
Why are umps dressed in black? A hidden message?
22 posted on 07/14/2020 1:02:47 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Colinsky

Fair and foul also implies strict distinctions between RIGHT and WRONG. When you’re a leftist, like, everything’s, like, relative, like, ya know


23 posted on 07/14/2020 1:04:01 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: Impala64ssa

The minute a petition is circulated to change the name of the NY Yankees, this will all come to an end.


24 posted on 07/14/2020 1:08:55 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Cloward-Piven is finally upon us.)
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To: Lisbon1940
Yankees isn’t offensive?

As a lifelong Cardinals' fan, those damn yankees have always been offensive!

25 posted on 07/14/2020 1:16:40 PM PDT by newfreep
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To: TBP

Washington Redskins, whose new name is unknown,

The Washington Unknowns? Name sucks.


26 posted on 07/14/2020 1:23:05 PM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: GoldenPup

The Washington Thinskins


27 posted on 07/14/2020 1:28:36 PM PDT by Repent and Believe (...unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish. - Jesus (Luke 13:3))
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To: TBP

Braves said they would NOT change their name.


28 posted on 07/14/2020 1:42:36 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (Friends at FR - Are you prepared to meet the LORD??? Do you KNOW Him? Do so today!)
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To: RetiredArmy

The Redskins had said the same thing a few years ago. What ahppens when hte pressure ratchets up?

I admit that part of me was hoping they’d switch to the minor-league name, the Atlanta Crackers, jsut to show up the woke crowd for the hypocrites they are.


29 posted on 07/14/2020 1:50:58 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: TBP

Because of the Mob, no longer will I have to bear my bodily reactions, including frothing at the mouth, when I hear the sports news report reciting those racist names, the Cleveland Indians and the Atlanta Braves. In fact, one time I suffered a seizure and had to go by ambulance to the ER. I thought I could chill out and smoke more pot, but it got even worse. I am slowly turning into a dirty, filthy scurvy bum. Now I go into a trance of rage whenever I hear the name Cleveland Indians or Atlanta Braves. Cleveland Indians! Step by step, inch by inch I walk up and I smash them, and I hit them and tear them to pieces until my entire room is wrecked! Every time I hear Cleveland Indians and Atlanta Braves it tears me apart! /sarc


30 posted on 07/14/2020 2:05:47 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: Osage Orange

Washington Republicans, a name that would never be offensive because it offends the right people.


31 posted on 07/14/2020 2:08:23 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: TBP

so...Americans are going to let one op ed, guide their opinion of Texas Rangers? How stupid are we?


32 posted on 07/14/2020 2:32:40 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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To: Lisbon1940

No, but “Red Sox” really, really, really gets me mad.


33 posted on 07/14/2020 2:35:28 PM PDT by oldbill
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To: newfreep

‘As a lifelong Cardinals’ fan, those damn yankees have always been offensive!’

Cards lead that New York team (will not all them by name) 3-2 in the World Series; 1926,1942,1964...

I remember Ken Boyer’s grand salami in game 4, 1964,like it was yesterday...


34 posted on 07/14/2020 2:43:43 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: jonrick46
Save money. Just change it to the Cleveland Idiots, and instead of Chief Wahoo, you could have Chief Yahoo. Lighten his face, keep the smile, take away the feather, and put a red star hat on him.


35 posted on 07/14/2020 3:01:50 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Start with doxxing. It’ll get their attention. Or not. But sooner not later it won’t be two people holding/aiming their guns incorrectly...it’ll be a well trained well motivated fed up citizens who will neutralize the threat.
We either neutralize the threat or we lose our freedoms. It really is that simple.


36 posted on 07/14/2020 3:31:28 PM PDT by DeplorableGirl
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To: TBP

This is good because we weed out the cowards who n=bend the knee and we boycott them


37 posted on 07/14/2020 3:34:19 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: TBP

God permits them to burn everything down until either his people stand/repent, or end up self-tied in the alley wailing and gnashing our teeth. Need more self-tying apparently.


38 posted on 07/14/2020 4:16:50 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: central_va

That could get confusing. The catcher’s port field would be the pitcher’s starboard field.


39 posted on 07/14/2020 4:45:20 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: central_va
...port field and starboard field.

Scratch that. Those terms were used on every slave ship.

40 posted on 07/14/2020 5:08:09 PM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Is it time Claire?)
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