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Cleveland Indians now the Cleveland Guardians
Not a fan of that name personally unless they pick Rocket Racoon as their mascot.
I was pulling for "Tribe" to keep the heritage but not the potentially offensive moniker.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...ians-guardians
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Goodbye to Chiefs, Braves, Rangers, Cowboys, etc
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Originally Posted by
William Tecumsah Sherman
Goodbye to Chiefs, Braves, Rangers, Cowboys, etc
and Patriots and Raiders.
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I don't even watch MLB or the NFL anymore ... they can all change their names to some type of fish for all I care.... And MLB / NFL are to blame - not me because they sure don't give a damn about offending me
OXFORD, Miss. (WTVA) - Ole Miss campus police ask students to behave at future baseball games following a recent incident.
The university said students were reportedly throwing rocks at Georgia baseball players during last weekend's series.
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Bunch of snowflakes in this thread.
The only one's on the chopping block are Cleveland, which had a REALLY racist mascot, Washington, whose name is literally a slur (I don't want to hear you complaining about Ole Miss being the slave owners wife if you don't call this out), and maybe the Braves, but that one might be safe because it isn't inherently negative, but there's a legit concern about using a type of people as a mascot - just like you shouldn't wear a race or culture as a costume for Halloween. It's okay to admit that some stuff created in the past was bad and should be changed. Doesn't take away any joy you had cheering for them in the past and doesn't make you a bad person for having cheered for those teams. You didn't know better and it was a different time.
Literally none of this will have any negative consequences for you personally, you won't be harmed in any way, and nothing in your life will meaningfully change for the better or worse with this.
WHY IS EVERYONE YELLING?!?
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Cowboys killed Indians. They have to go next.
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I?m fine with idea of ?Indians? or ?Redskins? being considered offensive and you make a good point about Ole Miss.
But not sure a cartoon mascot should be considered too offensive because they?re supposed to be silly. Notre Dame, Boston Celtics, San Diego Padres all have goofy looking people mascots.
Like everything else it?s a matter of being reasonable. I just hate that both Washington and Cleveland couldn?t find a way to honor Native American culture in some way and have run away from it because of fear of losing a PR battle.
Names like the Braves, Chiefs should be considered respectful in my opinion as those words should have a positive association to everyone.
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Originally Posted by
BulldogDX55
Bunch of snowflakes in this thread.
The only one's on the chopping block are Cleveland, which had a REALLY racist mascot, Washington, whose name is literally a slur (I don't want to hear you complaining about Ole Miss being the slave owners wife if you don't call this out), and maybe the Braves, but that one might be safe because it isn't inherently negative, but there's a legit concern about using a type of people as a mascot - just like you shouldn't wear a race or culture as a costume for Halloween. It's okay to admit that some stuff created in the past was bad and should be changed. Doesn't take away any joy you had cheering for them in the past and doesn't make you a bad person for having cheered for those teams. You didn't know better and it was a different time.
Literally none of this will have any negative consequences for you personally, you won't be harmed in any way, and nothing in your life will meaningfully change for the better or worse with this.
So no Patriots or Raiders or Saints or Cowboys or ..............
If we are going to bend to political pressure, then let's do it all the way. It's kind of like it's okay to have a movie called "White Men Can't Jump", but it's not okay to have a movie called "Black Men can't do well on the ACT." Let's either do it or not.
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Braves and chiefs will absolutely be next. They are toast.
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Originally Posted by
Irondawg
95% of people offended by their name were not native american descendants.
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Originally Posted by
William Tecumsah Sherman
Goodbye to Chiefs, Braves, Rangers, Cowboys, etc
Rebels
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Originally Posted by
somebodyshotmypaw
So no Patriots or Raiders or Saints or Cowboys or ..............
If we are going to bend to political pressure, then let's do it all the way. It's kind of like it's okay to have a movie called "White Men Can't Jump", but it's not okay to have a movie called "Black Men can't do well on the ACT." Let's either do it or not.
Great Point!
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Originally Posted by
Dawg-gone-dawgs
95% of people offended by their name were not native american descendants.
Bbbbbbbbbbingo!!!! The majority of native Americans did not even really care. This is all about power and conformity into submission. The people behind this are doing it in all aspects of American society. I believe this has been tried before in Europe and China over the last 200 years or so. How did that all end?
People better wake up. It has nothing to do with being offended or helping out certain groups. It?s simply a method to create Balkanization of groups in this nation, which dissolves the national pride, and then they control everything because we were too stupid enough not to see what they were attempting to do. Divide and conquer.
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Originally Posted by
Dawg-gone-dawgs
95% of people offended by their name were not native american descendants.
100% fact
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Soon we will erase all reminders of those native savages. They will be nothing but fairy tales. #Woke
Everyone wants to be a beast...until its time to do what beasts do.
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Originally Posted by
William Tecumsah Sherman
Goodbye to Chiefs, Braves, Rangers, Cowboys, etc
Quite a few Yankees owned slaves also. Despite all the looting, raping and burning on the South during the war, William Tecumsah Sherman stated he wasn't opposed to slavery. Think Yankees name should be banned with the rest of them..
Last edited by NCDawg; 07-23-2021 at 01:25 PM.
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Wait til PETA comes after animal mascots.
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Originally Posted by
starkvegasdawg
Wait til PETA comes after animal mascots.
It's already happening. PETA instagram/twitter said we should refrain from using animal names because it denigrates and furthers animal suffering. There really is no end to this. None. You can find any group that will be offended by any word or name.
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