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Students put twist on mascots - The Fighting WHITIES
Argus Leader Newspaper, South Dakota ^

Posted on 03/11/2002 3:43:56 PM PST by chance33_98

Edited on 05/07/2004 9:08:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Indian students in Colorado have turned the tables in a debate on racism by naming their intramural basketball team "The Fighting Whities."

The students, at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, chose a white man as a mascot after failing to persuade nearby Eaton High School to drop a nickname they say offends them.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: caucasian; events; fightingwhites; indian; mascot; mongoloid; nativeamerican; pc; politicallycorrect; racism; schools; sports; sportteams; teams; whites; whities
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To: PeoplesRepublicOfWashington
Offended? It's hilarious!
81 posted on 03/11/2002 6:38:34 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants
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To: Balding_Eagle
Sent my request for a T Shirt BTTT!
82 posted on 03/11/2002 6:39:41 PM PST by bazbo
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To: dongha
Dosn't Washington D.C. mean vagina? That's where all the usless pr!cks end up.

Go Whities!!!!!!!

83 posted on 03/11/2002 6:43:22 PM PST by thrcanbonly1
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To: PeoplesRepublicOfWashington
Let's not miss a golden opportunity: let's start naming teams after European ethnicities with all abandon! :-)

How about the Rude Frenchmen?

84 posted on 03/11/2002 6:44:21 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants
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To: chance33_98
Maybe we should change the name to "Thinskins".
85 posted on 03/11/2002 6:46:15 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants
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To: OKSooner
And there's already a tribute to France - the Horned Frogs!
86 posted on 03/11/2002 6:47:46 PM PST by Chu Gary
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To: 07055
in Sioux Falls

Is this where the Souix fell?

87 posted on 03/11/2002 6:48:03 PM PST by jonathonandjennifer
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To: OKSooner
Tennessee Volunteers
88 posted on 03/11/2002 6:48:39 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants
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To: fire and forget
My understanding was that a squaw was a female Indian. If terms generally and benignly used for Indians are in fact offensive in their correct definition, we should be educated about that.

same understanding here. but, lo, recently we learn that it means something else according to some hyper-technical/hyper-correct etymology (sp?).

the fascinating thing about this, to me, anyway, is that these same language purists have trouble with the word "niggardly," which somehow doesn't seem to rate the same super parsing.

89 posted on 03/11/2002 7:33:20 PM PST by johnboy
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To: chance33_98
I don't get it, are we supposed to find Whities offensive? If I spent my days drinking Wild Turkey on the reservation and had no desirable skills, maybe I would be bored enough to actually contemplate the effect of team nicknames on my life. Fortunately, I'm not like that.
90 posted on 03/11/2002 7:34:23 PM PST by Conservative til I die
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To: Balding_Eagle
I just asked for my shirt!
91 posted on 03/11/2002 7:36:59 PM PST by warpsmith
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To: Chu Gary
Actually, the term is "horny toad"!
92 posted on 03/11/2002 7:38:46 PM PST by TheBattman
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To: PeoplesRepublicOfWashington
No, I'm actually laughing at their creativity!
93 posted on 03/11/2002 7:38:50 PM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: PeoplesRepublicOfWashington
One more thought..... since I'm Irish, maybe I would be offended if they had used, "Fighting Whitie Irish"?! :-]
94 posted on 03/11/2002 7:39:58 PM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: Squantos
LOL in Illinois! :-]
95 posted on 03/11/2002 7:42:27 PM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: chance33_98
oh brother!
96 posted on 03/11/2002 7:42:42 PM PST by rockfish59
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To: chance33_98
They may find that their mascot name might turn out to be an omen. Then they can say they saw it coming, lol.
97 posted on 03/11/2002 7:42:53 PM PST by MissAmericanPie
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To: raybbr
I could go on.

Oh please do - by all means! I admire (and am laughing at) your creativity!

98 posted on 03/11/2002 7:44:40 PM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: JAWs
This is wrong. It should be the "Flammin' Caucasians!"

Or even the "Hooping Honkies"

Hustling Honkies?

Playing Palefaces?

Warrior Whites?

99 posted on 03/11/2002 7:48:54 PM PST by sneakypete
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To: Walkingfeather
I thought I was going to be offended and then I remembered I was a redskin.... so never mind.

You too?

100 posted on 03/11/2002 7:50:06 PM PST by sneakypete
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