The Washington Redskins finally changed their name, and all my conservative relatives were like "What a bunch of ridiculous woke bullshit!" Really, guys? You don't understand why that might not be the best name?
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Ask them if they like this one better, when they say no, act ignorant and ask them to explain why, then sit back and watch them squirm
I do like that one better actually, I wish they would use this one instead.
I'm a delicate little white boy with glass bones and paper skin and I want to be represented offensively by the media too!
Not being discriminated against is discriminating!
A-men, brother
I was voting for Washington crackers...to bad that didn't get chosen... I'm sure that'd have been great for your conservative relatives.
We could have some fun with this.
The Atlanta Confederates: Whites-only team, but by league rule they lose every game they play. It's a matter of pride in their heritage.
The Boston Puritans: No alcohol or swearing allowed in the ballpark, all games must end before dark, and they never play on Sundays.
The San Francisco Ferries (already done in the movie Baseketball).
The New Jersey Hitmen: The team's mascot embodies all the worst Italian-American stereotypes you can imagine.
The Florida Men: The most, uh, interesting mascot in the league. Maybe don't take your kids to the game.
The Florida Men: The most, uh, interesting mascot in the league. Maybe don’t take your kids to the game.
Honestly, I find baseball to be boring however when your mascot is Florida Man. I would turn out to watch that.
"For this game, our mascot is a meth addled man who was recently arrested for fighting an gator in Target."
"For the next game, the mascot will be a woman who was found drunk, half-naked shooting ping pongs ball out of their vagina outside of a Chuck-E-Cheese."
The Boston Puritans
I would love to see this. I wonder which Irish mom they're gonna have to tell Mikey to stop swearing at Fenway.
The Atlanta Confederates: Whites-only team, but by league rule they lose every game they play. It’s a matter of pride in their heritage.
Rename the Washington Generals to it.
The Florida Men: famous for all their players committing bizarre crimes.
Yeah but one native American dude said it didn't bother him so now they have a justification for using the ~~n-word~~ derogatory term towards native Americans.
It's bullshit too because now they're named after the bridge guardians which look awesome. Driving past them always makes me feel like I'm being tested by those statues in the Neverending Story.
After the the Indians changed their name to the Guardians my dad told me if a team has accepted public funds it should be illegal for a sports team to change their name without public approval.
Geez, by that logic there should be a public vote on all roster changes, too.
I feel underrepresented, why don't white dudes have an offensive caricature/stereotype? =(
You know you had to do it to 'em
I don't understand.
We got one!
Because "white" is a category of exclusion, defined by being not not-white. It is vague and historically flexible - it may or may not include Italians, Spaniards, Irish, Greeks or Poles depending on who you ask and where & when you happen to be at the time of asking.
Amusingly, quite a lot of people still excuse Armenians and Azerbaijani people, despite them literally living in the Caucasusn and being the definition of Caucasian
Also may not include Latin Americans, Slavs or mixed race people
Russians and Germans historically tend to exclude each ofher.
I started using non-whites as a broad category of every race / ethnicity that is excluded by the US mainstream, specifically the transnational white power movement.
While technically correct, saying it's a category of exclusion kind of makes it sound negative, when it's exclusive quality is basically defined by privilege. Whether Italians, Spaniards, Irish, Greeks, or Poles counts basically entirely depends on how normalized and privileged they are in any given greater subsect.
That makes a lot of sense! I've wondered why sometimes white just feels like a non-race
Depends on your traditional definition of "white" but Notre Dame has the "Fighting Irish" as mentioned by @HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
Except this is a source of pride for the Irish. It was first coined for the Irish immigrant soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War in what became called the Irish Brigade.
Ooh, this is a pretty good one
There's that picture of an American Indian man wearing a "Caucasians" shirt floating around the internet, and every time I see it I can't help but laugh. Edit yeah someone has already posted it in this thread.
Also, do the Minnesota Vikings count?
Some choice lyrics from "If you own the Washington Redskins you're a cock" by Atom and His Package:
And you'll go "Wah wah wah, you're so PC" And I will say "Wait" Remind me again how it came to be That being "the stupid American" is a desirable trait
Wouldn't it be offensive if we cheered: "Rah rah rah" for the Carolina Negroes With a beatbox cheer and big foam afros? Or if the Minnesota Vikings became the New York Kikes With dollar bills on their helmets cause that's what they like You know?
"Atom, what about the Saints, Angels, Padres too? Ain't that the same thing for Christians that's offending you?"
When there's a Jesus Christ mascot dog shooting crucifixes Nailed to a cross, dying to save the team You'll be right, you'll be right But until then You're. Not. Right
New Mexico Mexicans
Should've gone with Washington Senators and Cleveland Spiders. Commanders and Guardians are just never going to appeal to me.
Cleveland Spiders shouting out the worst team in MLB history, I like it.
They were overall pretty good until the owners fucked them over. Not unlike the A's today.
Aren't the Cleveland Guardians named after the Cleveland Guardians
I really wanted Cleveland to be the Rockers, but that didn’t happen. They could have had Charlie Sheen as their mascot.
They already have the Clash City Rockers
Cleveland does? Which sport?
They should also just pick one name for the teams, so people could reuse their schwag.
Everything in Cleveland is the Browns.
Sorry I meant "Clash City Rockers" already exists - it's a song. I'm not sure if any sports teams have the same name
I agree that Commanders and Guardians aren't good names, but Senators and Spiders are comically bad 😄
You want endless corruption scandals from pure nominative determinism and fans with a common phobia having a fear response to the name? Because that's how you get ants! 😉
I'm half Asian and would totally wear the SF Chinamen
The mascot could do kung-fu and that would be pretty badass.
The mascot:
fighting irish
