imawino
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Post by imawino on Mar 20, 2015 12:45:44 GMT -5
The heck with team names that contain references to Native Americans. I think you should worry about names that are offensive to much larger demographic groups first. I want Notre Dame to change the name it's athletic teams go by. Certainly "Fighing Irish" has derogatory connotations about the behavior of Irish people to 70 million people of Irish heritage around the world. (There are only 5.2 million Native Americans.) After all, Fighting Irish is only marginally better than if you referred to Notre Dame athletic teams as the Drunken Micks.
Personally, I don't see names such as Redskins, Warriors, Chiefs, or tribal names, such as the UND Sioux or the Florida State Seminoles, as offensive. But, I do wonder why I've never heard of any initiatives to changes names that might be offensive to white groups (such as the Irish), only non-white groups? Are we being racist in not applying the same standards to predominantly white groups as we apply to non-white groups? After all, it's not just non-white groups that have been subjected to discrimination in the US. When DW's Grandmother arrived in NYC from Ireland in 1912, she found she could not get a job in NYC. She found signs in the windows of businesses that read: Help Wanted - Irish Need Not Apply. To me, that seems like pretty blatant discrimination. White people don't care. We have better things to worry about. Where is this place where all the white people are worried about important things all day, and all non Caucasians lead such charmed fucking lives that they have nothing better to worry about than the name of a sports team?
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MJ2.0
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Post by MJ2.0 on Mar 20, 2015 12:48:34 GMT -5
White people don't care. We have better things to worry about. Where is this place where all the white people are worried about important things all day, and all non Caucasians lead such charmed fucking lives that they have nothing better to worry about than the name of a sports team? this place called Nowhere.
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ArchietheDragon
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Mar 20, 2015 12:49:56 GMT -5
Where is this place where all the white people are worried about important things all day, and all non Caucasians lead such charmed fucking lives that they have nothing better to worry about than the name of a sports team? this place called Nowhere. YM
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imawino
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Post by imawino on Mar 20, 2015 12:51:43 GMT -5
Where is this place where all the white people are worried about important things all day, and all non Caucasians lead such charmed fucking lives that they have nothing better to worry about than the name of a sports team? this place called Nowhere. Can you point it out on a map? I'm going to go for some serious tanning, move there and skip down the streets eating skittles every day while the white folk handle all the hard stuff for me. Thinking makes my head hurt.
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MJ2.0
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Post by MJ2.0 on Mar 20, 2015 12:59:19 GMT -5
if I knew where it was, do you think I'd be sitting here talking to you ding dongs?
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andreawick
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Post by andreawick on Mar 20, 2015 14:00:45 GMT -5
White people don't care. We have better things to worry about. Where is this place where all the white people are worried about important things all day, and all non Caucasians lead such charmed fucking lives that they have nothing better to worry about than the name of a sports team? America, United States of
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thyme4change
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Post by thyme4change on Mar 20, 2015 15:25:03 GMT -5
@tbird - Ha!
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