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And, if you're the 29 percent in power, it's better to signal virtue with something meaningless than to get about the more difficult, and relevant, work of reforming police training.
The 29 Percenters | National Review
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If it’s meaningless why do you care one way or the other?
Enough people have voiced displeasure with a product that the product is being evaluated for changes. Market solution. American way.
Besides nothing could possibly embarrass that team more than their current owner and the on-field product he’s produced.
Enough people have voiced displeasure with a product that the product is being evaluated for changes. Market solution. American way.
Besides nothing could possibly embarrass that team more than their current owner and the on-field product he’s produced.
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What a racist, POS article. It's well documented that the WaPo poll allowing self-identification as an Indian was flawed, and the poll could never withstand the scrutiny of review. A 2020 poll conducted by actual researchers from the U of Michigan and Cal-Berkley has much different results from actual Indians. See Stephanie A. Fryberg & Arianne E. Eason, et al., Unpacking the Mascot Debate: Native American Identification Predicts Opposition to Native Mascots, Soc. Psychol. and Personality Sci. Online (Mar. 2020). Overall, 49% of Indians found the name "R**skins" to be offensive, 38% did not. And when they looked at cultural involvement in the tribe, 67% found the name offensive. That tracks with another scientifically conducted poll, see James V. Fenelon, Redskins?: Sport Mascots, Indian Nations and White Racism, where 67% of enrolled tribal members who were polled also found the name offensive.
Changing a racist team name is important, whether the white snowflakes understand it or not.
Changing a racist team name is important, whether the white snowflakes understand it or not.
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Col Joseph Lenertz
Racism: 1: a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race
2a: a doctrine or political program based on the assumption of racism and designed to execute its principles
b: a political or social system founded on racism
When you call an article, which is discussing the virtue-signalling of a footbal team name change, as "racist", you've already lost the argument. When you call everything you don't like "racist", the term just means "I don't like it."
2a: a doctrine or political program based on the assumption of racism and designed to execute its principles
b: a political or social system founded on racism
When you call an article, which is discussing the virtue-signalling of a footbal team name change, as "racist", you've already lost the argument. When you call everything you don't like "racist", the term just means "I don't like it."
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Capt Gregory Prickett
Col Joseph Lenertz - when you make a type of people a sports team mascot, it does significant harm to the children of those type of people, especially when using racially derogatory terms, like r**sk*ns, or n*g*r, or k*te, or cr**ker. And I said "racist" not "racism". And that definition is different: "showing or feeling discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, [OR] believing that a particular race is superior to another."
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"Even Chief Wahoo, the buck-toothed caricature used as the Cleveland Indians’ logo for decades, was obviously meant in the spirit of fun, not denigration" That tells me enough about the author. Comparing the Fighting Irish mascot to a buck toothed Indian isn't even the same thing. If we were to take a poll about slavery in say I don't know...1822 I'm sure the results would be different from today. It doesn't make those 19th century respondents right. I don't have a dog in this fight. They can change the name to the Washington Crackers for all I care the team is still trash.
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Col Joseph Lenertz
If they don't start winning games, no one will care. No one cares now. The name change is a virtue-signalling exercise.
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Capt Gregory Prickett
Col Joseph Lenertz - Except that people do care. You don't care, because you don't see the problem, but American Indians care, because of the impact on their children and culture.
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