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The Cleveland Baseball Team? Indians will be dropping their iconic nickname over social justice idiocy
NOQ Report ^ | 12/13/2020 | Blaine Traber

Posted on 12/13/2020 7:14:39 PM PST by SeekAndFind

The Cleveland Indians will be bowing to pressure from mostly Caucasian social justice warriors over their “racist” nickname. An announcement is expected as early as this week.

The NY Times reported the long-time Major League Baseball franchise will be following the Washington Football Team, formerly known as the Redskins, in pandering to demands by those who are easily offended by traditions. That means Chief Wahoo, the iconic mascot for the team, will no longer be employed. According to The Times:


Following years of protests from fans and Native American groups, the Cleveland Indians have decided to change their team name, moving away from a moniker that has long been criticized as racist, three people familiar with the decision said Sunday.

The move follows a decision by the Washington Football Team of the N.F.L. in July to stop using a name long considered a racial slur, and is part of a larger national conversation about race that magnified this year amid protests of systemic racism and police violence.

Cleveland could announce its plans as soon as this week, according to the three people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.

What the article and social justice warriors forget to mention is that Native Americans generally do not care about the name or mascot of professional sports teams. As I reported in July:

9 out of 10 Native Americans aren’t offended by the Washington Redskins’ name

These moves have been heralded as a result of “heightened awareness and shifting cultural norms” that make things once considered acceptable to suddenly be anathema in modern society. But the truth is this: They’re flexing their social justice muscles to demonstrate how manufactured outrage can be channeled to change anything they feel can be sold as racist. It’s a farce that exemplifies the post-truth society they’re trying to build.

Between voter fraud cover-ups, Antifa antics, and COVID-19 lockdown hysteria, it’s easy to forget that social justice warriors are still on the warpath. Wait, that term is supposed to be racist as well. It’s so hard to keep up.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: baseball; cleveland; indians; socialjustice; yesweknow
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To: SeekAndFind

How about the Cleveland Midges? Or is that too close to Midgets?

Cleveland Gnats?

Cleveland Cadavers?

Cleveland Crooks?

Cleveland Capos?

Cleveland Cicadas?

Cleveland Cyclones?


21 posted on 12/13/2020 7:33:14 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (I miss Don Imus!)
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To: SeekAndFind

We went through this with the Redskins. Repeated polls of Native Americans consistently showed that they liked the name. Didn’t want it changed. The oh so #woke Washington Post would then whitesplain to the dumb Native Americans why they were too offended. That was offensive.


22 posted on 12/13/2020 7:33:40 PM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m done with professional sports.I don’t have a problem with my clergyman preaching fire and brimstone...but I won’t be lectured by those making millions to throw,catch or bounce a ball.


23 posted on 12/13/2020 7:35:08 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (STOLEN ELECTION 2020)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Cleveland Indigenous People” is kinda clunky.


24 posted on 12/13/2020 7:39:01 PM PST by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: SeekAndFind

I figure soon, we will have the Atlanta baseball team, and the Chicago hockey team. F the PC monkeys.


25 posted on 12/13/2020 7:44:27 PM PST by Mark17 (USAF Retired. Father of a US Air Force commissioned officer, and trained Air Force combat pilot. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Someone shoulf file a lawsiouxt.


26 posted on 12/13/2020 7:46:26 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: VideoDoctor

Lol


27 posted on 12/13/2020 7:47:43 PM PST by deks (No machines, no software, nothing that can be electronically manipulated -- paper ballots only)
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To: SeekAndFind
Would anybody complain about these?


28 posted on 12/13/2020 7:51:56 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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To: VideoDoctor

Cleveland Wusses.


29 posted on 12/13/2020 7:55:00 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Cleveland Geldings


30 posted on 12/13/2020 7:55:34 PM PST by ConservativeStatement (Joe Biden: Commander-in-Cheat. )
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To: SeekAndFind

And in other news the Los Angeles Dodgers are being urged to drop their moniker. Originating at a time when the team’s fans were mocked for “dodging” the Brooklyn trolley cars in the area around its stadium, it is an insensitive reminder of the difficulties of its poor, urban fans in that era. To continue to use this offensive term disregards the plight of oppressed working class whites and suggests that the systemic exploitation of their labor can be frivolously dismissed in order to promote the billion dollar industry that is Major League Baseball.


31 posted on 12/13/2020 7:57:15 PM PST by TexasKamaAina
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To: SeekAndFind
The Indians were named because of a player on the team, who was the first NATIVE AMERICAN MLB player, Louis Sockalexis. Now these morons (Caucasian Social Justice Idiots) need to learn history.

What next? The Chicago Black Hawks?

32 posted on 12/13/2020 8:07:23 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (We might be DEPLORABLES, but we don't CHEAT like Dems)
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe they’ll change their name to the Cleveland Knickers, with a frilly undergarment as their mascot.


33 posted on 12/13/2020 8:13:11 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I guess they don’t want to move to India.


34 posted on 12/13/2020 8:19:23 PM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: TexasKamaAina
HOWSABOUT

Didgerydoos


35 posted on 12/13/2020 8:20:01 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD? Then SEEK HIM!)
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To: Deplorable American1776
I kinda liked the "Mighty Whitie's"...back in day..

And I'm part Native...and most people Native that I know...could careless...about team names.

36 posted on 12/13/2020 8:23:29 PM PST by Osage Orange (TRUMP!!!)
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To: Deplorable American1776

Erasing our history is one of the objectives here. When you have no history, no tradition, no holidays, no sports mascots, no flags, no church, and the nuclear family is dissolved, there is nothing left but the collective state.


37 posted on 12/13/2020 8:26:09 PM PST by HonkyTonkMan ( )
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To: SeekAndFind
The Cleveland Pakistanis

Why should the Indians get all the attention?

38 posted on 12/13/2020 8:31:42 PM PST by Jess Kitting
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To: SeekAndFind
Name them after the city of Cleveland; "The Mistake By The Lake".

"Ladies and gentlemen, now batting for the Cleveland Mistakes..."

39 posted on 12/13/2020 8:36:17 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: SeekAndFind

There are other offensive names in sports.

If Indian nicknames are offensive , then......

Pittsburgh Steelers offends real steel workers
Dallas Cowboys offends real cowboys

LA Angels, San Diego Padres, New Orleans Saints are offensive to the Catholic church.

Milwaukee Brewers offends real brewmasters

Green Bay Packers offends real meat packers,

All the animal nicknames offend PETA types.

Etc etc


40 posted on 12/13/2020 8:38:42 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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