Daniel Greenfield’s article “Every Sports Team Must Change
Its Name” highlights the insanity of this craze to re-name
sports teams. And of course it won’t
stop with sports teams. Mr. Greenfield
begins:
Every name is racist. Every name
must change.
The Washington Redskins agreed to
change a name that offended no one except white leftists, but the media, which
always speaks with forked tongue, is demanding more sports scalps.
The Cleveland Indians have issued a
statement whining that "the recent social unrest... has only underscored
the need for us to keep improving as an organization on issues of social
justice."
Remember when the Indians were just
known for being cursed with the second-longest championship drought in sports,
now they can be cursed for their commitment to social justice.
The curse used to be known as the
Curse of Chief Wahoo, but he's already been purged for political incorrectness.
And now the Indians announced that they're "committed to engaging our
community and appropriate stakeholders to determine the best path forward with
regard to our team name.” Those stakeholders won't be their fans or anyone who
knows what baseball is.
. . .
Some media editorialist will,
eventually, link the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Southern cavalier mythos and
accuse them of white supremacy. The English Civil War would seem to have little
to do with a Cleveland team, but King Charles I was involved in the African
slave trade.
“The name Cleveland Cavaliers
represents a group of daring fearless men, whose life's pact was never
surrender, no matter what the odds,” the fan who won a contest to name the team
wrote.
We’ll see how long that lasts.
. . .
The simplest solution might be for
every team to change its name to Black Lives Matter.
And when the Pittsburgh Heinz Black
Lives Matters play the New York MetLife Black Lives Matters, it’ll be a little
bit confusing, but that’s okay because no one will be watching.
Read the full article here.
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