Cratylus
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I'm offended on so many different levels.
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Awwww, are you getting "offended"? GMAFB.I love how it took almost 40 pages for folks who think it's perfectly ok to come back around and show up and attempt to Trump up the argument by shouting louder. Kind of amazing that folks still can't see the issue...
We're just honoring you, dude! Why don't you understand???
All you who are offended by the Chief Wahoo logo... if you're sooooooo offended by it, I'm guessing that none of you has purchased Indians' gear in the 65 years of them using the current logo? Right? Because if you have, even if the stuff you bought doesn't feature the logo, you still made purchases that help to support the organization that makes money from the logo - a "racist" logo to use the word some of you have ascribed to it.
If you truly believe the organization is being "insensitive" and that the logo is "racist", then stop talking and actually DO something about it. If you're sooooooo offended by it, put your money where your mouth is. Burn ALL of your Cleveland Indians items and then refuse to buy ANYTHING Cleveland Indians related until they get a new logo. After all, why are you financially helping to prop up an organization that actively uses racism in an effort to turn a profit? I'm guessing cuz it's easier to bitch and moan and hyperbolize than it is to be truly outraged.
All you hypocritical "Internet Message Board Warriors" can take your holier-than-thou attitude and STFU. Your actions speak infinitely louder than your words do.
If they choose to get rid of Chief Wahoo, I have no problem with it.You going for a re-branding?
If they choose to get rid of Chief Wahoo, I have no problem with it.
If they choose to keep Chief Wahoo, I have no problem with it.
Ultimately, it means little to me. It's a LOGO and nothing else.
by the time the Native Americnas were beaten in war and relocated their numbers were already heavily devastated by disease that in no way was spread intentionally. this wasn't biological warfare and Stannard was wrong on many counts.
to say that Europeans for 500 years moved to America with the sole intent to eradicate native American with smallpox is just absurd.
There far cry between what was systematically happening to the jewish people of Nazi Germany and the plight of Native Americans in America
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http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/7302
Now your inferring I'm acting like klansman or a Nazi. real slick.
but summing up 500 years of history in one word with a negative connotation does not make it so.
comparing an an intentional disregard for human life with millions of immigrants unwitting infecting the native population with germs they hadn't had time to build an immunity to is just completely irresponsible
All you who are offended by the Chief Wahoo logo... if you're sooooooo offended by it, I'm guessing that none of you has purchased Indians' gear in the 65 years of them using the current logo? Right? Because if you have, even if the stuff you bought doesn't feature the logo, you still made purchases that help to support the organization that makes money from the logo - a "racist" logo to use the word some of you have ascribed to it.
If you truly believe the organization is being "insensitive" and that the logo is "racist", then stop talking and actually DO something about it. If you're sooooooo offended by it, put your money where your mouth is. Burn ALL of your Cleveland Indians items and then refuse to buy ANYTHING Cleveland Indians related until they get a new logo. After all, why are you financially helping to prop up an organization that actively uses racism in an effort to turn a profit? I'm guessing cuz it's easier to bitch and moan and hyperbolize than it is to be truly outraged.
All you hypocritical "Internet Message Board Warriors" can take your holier-than-thou attitude and STFU. Your actions speak infinitely louder than your words do.
Do you own Indians gear? If you do, and we use the logic of a lot of people in this thread, that makes you a racist.My opinions on race issues were less nuanced as a kid when I loved the team and purchased gear.
How about instead of irrationally burning things, I have logical discussions to make people realize how racist the logo is in hopes of making a rational case for its removal?
No, fuck that...ill just burn shit. Because rationality.
I love how it took almost 40 pages for folks who think it's perfectly ok to come back around and show up and attempt to Trump up the argument by shouting louder. Kind of amazing that folks still can't see the issue...