Posted on 07/14/2020 9:03:30 AM PDT by rktman
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. The same applies to statues. This wasn't about Confederate statues, folks. Any person could see the long game here. The Confederacy was the flank march to move against the real target: The Founding Fathers. This nation's history is the target.
The Left wants to erase it—all of it. Any figure with a problematic past has to be wiped off the map. The "woke" ethos is unbearable. There's no nuance. By design, it's meant to wipe clean almost everything, to finally smear America as a racist country that has done untold harm to the world. And the Texas Rangers are part of that embodiment.
The op-ed in The Washington Post, written by Global Opinions editor Karen Attiah, declares the team name "must go" because of its sordid history:
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
They attack everything even vaguely traditional, to replace it with their own Marxist version.
Watch the Rangers collapse without a fight.
Well, mlb is blm backwards so......................
In Idaho we call potatoes, “spuds”.
So I guess the team name would be, “The Idaho Spuds”.
Has a nice ring, no?
That's just what I told my wife this morning.
I'm guessing they are busy with focus groups trying out new names as we speak, (er, Post).
Funny thing about the Chiefs — they were named for the Mayor at the tine, H. Roe Bartle. His civilian job was full time Boy Scout District Executive. He founded the honorary scouting camping society, The Tribe of Mic-O-Say and his tribal name was Chief Bartle.
Lamar Hunt told the story of the name selection a number of times.
The CSA history/Southern culture and monuments to the same were the first line of defense against PC run amok. Now the first line had fallen. Has your ox been gored yet?
Not to cast dispersions on the Washington Post or their editorialist Karen Attiah, but I can't help but I can't help but wonder if she's confusing them with Terry's Texas Rangers, aka 8th Texas Cavalry which had former Rangers amongst their members but was a completely different unit.
Next you're going to tell me the Chicago Blackhawks don't have to change their name just because they're named for the 86th Infantry Division, the Blackhawk Division, of which their founder was a member. I'm waiting for the Parris Island rename demand, named for a British Colonel who was a slaveholder.
Apparently in the 1950s the Cincinnati Reds had too much time on their hands.....from wiki
In April 1953, the Reds announced a preference to be called the “Redlegs”, saying that the name of the club had been “Red Stockings” and then “Redlegs”. A newspaper speculated that it was due to the developing political connotation of the word ‘red’ to mean Communism.
They eventually reverted back to Reds in the 60s.
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