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Is Ole Miss -- Sorry, O** M*** -- NSFW? ['Ole Miss' now racist]
National Review ^ | 8-6-2014 | Ryan Lovelace

Posted on 08/06/2014 8:03:56 AM PDT by markomalley

The University of Mississippi will require university officials to use discretion when identifying the school as “Ole Miss” because it could be understood as a racist nickname.

“UM’s longstanding nickname is beloved by the vast majority of its students and alumni,” says a statement from Ole Miss. “But a few, especially some university faculty, are uncomfortable with it. Some don’t want it used at all and some simply don’t want it used within the academic context.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: olemiss
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Oh, geez, not this again...
1 posted on 08/06/2014 8:03:56 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Eventually they will pressure all the “Slave States” to change their names.


2 posted on 08/06/2014 8:05:18 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: markomalley

Isn’t “Ole” Spanish?


3 posted on 08/06/2014 8:09:16 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: markomalley

How ‘bout ‘Ole Missey’?.................


4 posted on 08/06/2014 8:11:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: bigbob
Isn’t “Ole” Spanish?

But that's used in bullfighting.....Big "No No" in the world of PC.

5 posted on 08/06/2014 8:11:40 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: markomalley

Is the sports team nickname still the Rebels???

If so, will liberals bring pressure to change it? Given the negative historic reference and all that?

Will liberals move on from their fixation on American Indian sports nicknames to others such as Rebels, which they would also object to?

Can the south ever do enough penance to suit the liberals who have such angst about these issues????


6 posted on 08/06/2014 8:12:25 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: bigbob

Only if you put an accent over the “e”.


7 posted on 08/06/2014 8:12:28 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: dfwgator

Yeah, most of the states are INDIAN names, so THEY should get rid of their names as well...................


8 posted on 08/06/2014 8:12:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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How ‘bout ‘Ole Missey’?........

"Hey now, I resemble that remark."

9 posted on 08/06/2014 8:12:45 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: bigbob

PC run amok!


10 posted on 08/06/2014 8:13:08 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: dfwgator

He’s from Holly Springs, Mississippi, just a few miles from where I grew up in Hickory Flat, both of which are near Oxford where Ole Miss is......................


11 posted on 08/06/2014 8:13:50 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: markomalley

A tiny minority playing the race card will demand a sports team change their name despite the popularity the name has with its followers.

And the “Redskin”-haters claimed this was just an isolated incident and not part of a bigger trend.

Liberals never stop assaulting the country. Never.


12 posted on 08/06/2014 8:14:14 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Every time you say no to a liberal, you make the Baby Barack cry.)
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This is getting to be hilarious..........


13 posted on 08/06/2014 8:15:14 AM PDT by Boonie
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To: markomalley
Truly a slippery slope. There is literally no end to the "Revising History" PC police on this crap. Just because "a few" are "uncomfortable" (WTF?!), Ole Miss is going to ditch "an affectionate name for the university” that the "vast majority of respondents" want to continue? From the article ...

Emma Jennings, a student at Ole Miss: “Does changing our email address URL from “olemiss.edu” to “umiss.edu,” promote diversity?” Jennings wrote in the letter. “Or does it suggest that we are a school that is ashamed of itself and ashamed of its past?

By the same PC Police logic, since I'm made "uncomfortable" by the Folsom Street Fair, that means it should end too, right?

14 posted on 08/06/2014 8:18:52 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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But a few ... are uncomfortable with it.


More PC crap that likely will result in new rules by the minority.

These types will always find something to be 'uncomfortable' about. And they continue to complain because it works for them. These things are small power plays that, over time, mount up to significant victories in changing the culture -- one 'uncomfortable' name at a time.


15 posted on 08/06/2014 8:21:38 AM PDT by TomGuy
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Wow! And for all these years, I thought Ole Miss was sexist, not racist.

Maybe they should call it Ole Ms.


16 posted on 08/06/2014 8:21:49 AM PDT by RBroadfoot
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To: markomalley

Giving in to these crybabies only gives voice and power to the perpetually offended.


17 posted on 08/06/2014 8:27:28 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (The next DNC convention will be spoken in Spanish; Press 1 for English)
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To: markomalley

I have always called it, Old iss with a P instead of an M.


18 posted on 08/06/2014 8:28:22 AM PDT by razorback-bert (Due to the high price of ammo, no warning shot will be fired.)
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To: markomalley
Ned Flanders: No foot-longs!
Maude Flanders: I know, they make you uncomfortable.
19 posted on 08/06/2014 8:33:24 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: markomalley

Maybe those faculty members should find a job elsewhere. Imagine that!


20 posted on 08/06/2014 8:34:46 AM PDT by petitfour
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