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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How about the Texas GOYAS? That’ll melt a few snowflakes. “Above all else the devil cannot stand to be mocked”- CS Lewis
Fair and foul also implies strict distinctions between RIGHT and WRONG. When you’re a leftist, like, everything’s, like, relative, like, ya know
The minute a petition is circulated to change the name of the NY Yankees, this will all come to an end.
As a lifelong Cardinals' fan, those damn yankees have always been offensive!
Washington Redskins, whose new name is unknown,
The Washington Unknowns? Name sucks.
The Washington Thinskins
Braves said they would NOT change their name.
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.
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
Washington Republicans, a name that would never be offensive because it offends the right people.
so...Americans are going to let one op ed, guide their opinion of Texas Rangers? How stupid are we?
No, but “Red Sox” really, really, really gets me mad.
‘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...
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.
This is good because we weed out the cowards who n=bend the knee and we boycott them
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.
That could get confusing. The catcher’s port field would be the pitcher’s starboard field.
Scratch that. Those terms were used on every slave ship.
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