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Re: 2012 NFL Uniform Thread - Nike takes over
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Originally Posted by SBXVII
Ha, ha, I clicked on the link on the last site:
Uni Watch » What Do You Mean ‘We,’ Paleface?
The article is funny and the Q&A is even more funny. It's ok for Utah and FL State to use their names. It's ok for the Vikings to use that and the Fighting Irish. |
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If a team name like Indians is bad, what about a team name like Vikings?
That’s apples and oranges. The Vikings were not a victimized class subjected to genocide, theft of their land, etc. The issue here, at least from my perspective, isn’t about ethnic stereotyping; it’s about systematically destroying a culture and then using that culture’s imagery as if it belongs to you, which it doesn’t.
What about the Fighting Irish?
See above.
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So the Irish have never been "a victimized class subjected to genocide, theft of their land, etc." Interesting...
Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Irish American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Black and Tans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Great Famine (Ireland) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
But this person is right, the French founders of Notre Dame weren't "using [a] culture’s imagery as if it belongs to [them]."
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