In the sense that when someone poisons a well and we stop bottling it as "Spring Water" they win.
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Lon
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Again, you've mistaken me for someone who cares. Your punchy attitude is/was the problem. I don't like it, hence don't care to address whatever real concerns you may or may not have. We'll see, however, how weary you happen to be...
Allowing the well to remain poisoned seems to be their victory, apart from those immune.
Where I'd say the victory for them would be seeing well intentioned people continuing to use it instead of relegating it and the power they invested in it to the dust bin of history. It seems we are at an impasse. But thanks for the conversation. :cheers:
A history of near genocidal treatment at the hands of an invading horde, have they? Generations of marginalization and disenfranchisement, reduction to a bogey man caricature to entertain folks and frighten children? I must have missed that. What Yankees are shamed by the word and why haven't we heard about it?
did town ever get around to explaining how they are impacted by it? :idunno:
rainee
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Please excuse me for I have not read any other posts after reading this one.
It is such a marvelous example of what could be termed the modern version of Politically Correct driven self righteousness.
It goes like this:
Do children play "Cowboy and Indians"?
Yes. (Think about that for a moment, you moralists, please.)
But when children grow up when do they all want to be the Indians and root for them to win with passion?
When they are sports teams.
Shouldn't we stop that?
Shouldn't we just keep "Cowboys" to root for?
Are you losing your minds?
:dizzy:
Rename the Red Skins to Red Foxes.
It is the American Indians' past history as fierce and mighty warriors we need to destroy - huh?
rainee
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BTW I know of a place where there are two high schools, one has the "Vikings" as a team. The other has? Indians. A big Green one to boot...
Big Green Indian
Verse 1
Tall as a mountain,with his head up in the sky.
Broad as a bayou, with the sun for his left eye;
See him comin', spreading terror through the land,
Breathin' fire, with a football in his hand!
(Scream)
Chorus
Holey moley! it's a Big Green Indian!
Tell me, brother, have you seen him run?
Holey moley! it's a Big Green Indian.
[You can't stop him with a rope, knife, or gun.
No, you can't stop him with a rope, knife, or gun.] Repeat
VERSE 2
Friends forever to the ones who call his name,
Strong and loyal, may we always be the same.
Ever present, as the sea is to the sand,
May his shadow always fall across our land.
Big Green Indian
Verse 1
Tall as a mountain,with his head up in the sky.
Broad as a bayou, with the sun for his left eye;
See him comin', spreading terror through the land,
Breathin' fire, with a football in his hand!
(Scream)
Chorus
Holey moley! it's a Big Green Indian!
Tell me, brother, have you seen him run?
Holey moley! it's a Big Green Indian.
[You can't stop him with a rope, knife, or gun.
No, you can't stop him with a rope, knife, or gun.] Repeat
VERSE 2
Friends forever to the ones who call his name,
Strong and loyal, may we always be the same.
Ever present, as the sea is to the sand,
May his shadow always fall across our land.
That's the point. Yankee was supposed to be a pejorative. But when it came time to name the baseball team currently in NY, it wasn't. Identical to the Redskins. The reason the team got to be named that was not because it was a pejorative, but because it wasn't.
Balerion the Black
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Even if the term "yankee" is pejorative, it doesn't represent systematic discrimination, oppression and/or genocide. A "redskin" was the scalp of an Indian, that was often turned in to collect a bounty for it.
Of course, when referring to a certain baseball team from New York, "Yankee" might as well be a swear word. (Mets fan here :/)
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nonsense
do a search on the origins of the term and it's changes in meanings over the years
my school's team name was "indians"
just that
and they voted to change it to something else
just that
and they voted to change it to something else
Daedalean's_Sun
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I'm actually fine with 'Indians' as far as mascots go although that's sort of like having a team name 'Europeans', it's too broad. And there is already a tendency to lump all native Americans together. However I don't think it's offensive, just imprecise.
Red Sox fan here. Don't get me started.:chuckle:
the town bears an iroquois name, as do the schools
now the teams are named for a bird :doh:
why can't you leave town alone?