The Cleveland Indians will always be the Cleveland Indians for me. The Indians’ mascot will always be Chief Wahoo. But over at PJ Media, Robert Spencer explains what's really going on:
With skyrocketing crime and
inflation, a steady exodus of sane people from her state, and test scores of
students in the state plummeting, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-Planned
Parenthood) and her henchmen have turned their attention to the most burning
issue of our day: sports team mascots that offend the woke. Now New York’s
remaining residents can look around at their smoking ruin of a state, as they
watch the people who broke into their house drive off in their car and console
themselves with the thought that nowhere in their formerly green and pleasant
land is anyone being traumatized because there’s a sports team around called
the “Indians.”
The Albany Times-Union reported Tuesday that “the New York Board of Regents
has officially banned all uses of images and names for school
mascots related to indigenous people.” At this late date in the
woke-ification of America, there wasn’t even any controversy over this: “The
board voted unanimously Tuesday morning, without discussion.”
This was the culmination of a
process that has been going on for a good while: “The proposal was announced by
the state Education Department in November, and education officials have been
urging school boards to begin the process to change mascot images and names
ever since.” Why is anyone on the New York Board of Regents paying attention to
this matter at all? Because, you see, fans of teams called the Indians and
Chiefs and Braves and even Redskins never realized it, but all the time they
were rooting for their teams, they were really indulging in an act of hate.
In the Left’s view, you see, people
name their sports teams after things they despise.
. . .
The war against mascots is also
completely inconsistent. There are ongoing efforts to force the Minnesota Vikings to change their name
because the name “Viking” supposedly glorifies colonialism and white
supremacism. But if the “Viking” name glorifies whiteness, why don’t the
“Chief” or “Warrior” or “Indian” names glorify Native Americans? The war
against mascots is, in other words, simply another Leftist effort to make
Americans generally ashamed of their own culture and heritage. A nation that is
ashamed won’t have the will to defend itself. . . .
Read the rest here.
Exit question: In the
interest of keeping fans ashamed of themselves and their team, why did not the
Tribe owners select The Cleveland Worms
instead of the Cleveland Guardians? Or, if it was important to keep “dians” in
the new name, well then, how about
The Cleveland Haemosporidians?
(For utterly fascinating information about the “avian haemosporidian parasite,” click here.)
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