Did you see the Top Gear episode where the lads went to the Deep South and got chased by red necks cos their car had Hilary Clinton and gay sex painted on the sides?
… Yes, where they went out of their way to find the most reactive prone town they could, gave their very best shot to stir up animosity, and still left without incident aside from some verbal threats. Even then that was politically charged and had nothing to do with their race.
I haven’t seen the to gear episode of a southern tour, but if your priorities are based on a TV show. From the UK nonetheless. You can’t really say shit about the South.
I’ve been there, they’re not all raving lunatics. There’s only like a 50% voting rate in the country. Of that, roughly half are one side or the other.
So this guy is limiting half the country in nothing and the half he likes.
Its pointing out that “redskins” is offensive, but not being offensive to do it.
You could say being formal is itself another joke on top of the contrast, as “indigenous” or “first peoples” would be an equally stupid football team name as “Caucasians.”
Because the vast swathe of Indo-Europeans seem to have all originated from somewhere in this region … If you’re white, then a good chunk of your ancestors had something to do with the culture that expanded our of that region in the late Neolithic/early Bronze Age. Do you prefer the term Indo-European?
Ok I think this falls in the “technically correct” basket, even though if you have to go so far back in time to find a common ancestor that the category ends up including two whole continents, i’m wondering what’s the actual value of that information.
I think people like you way too often hear the word “offended” and imagine someone feeling a deep visceral and immediate uncomfortability with something.
That’s usually not what most people mean exactly, though. Imagine if literally the only time your in-group was mentioned was to stereotype them. People know of your existence but not what you’re actually like because it’s been clouded with centuries of stereotypes. After a whole life experiencing this over and over and over you get annoyed and want to see other, actually realistic, representations, that’s what this “offense” you mention is.
I mean, hell gamers and nerds get annoyed by stuff like Big Bang Theory, and that’s sooooo much more trivial.
Or they’ve spent their entire life seeing cartoonishly stupid depictions of their people around every corner and never anything realistic, and, they reasonably, would like it to stop?
The edit is significantly worse. Now it’s tied to the Simpsons and feels forced. Paleskins would be better than Paleface and the aggressively generic looking white guy of the previous logo was better.
It’s actually very telling that it can’t really produce any decent white stereotypes. Shows how rarely they’re mocked. It would have an embarrassment (literally) of riches to draw from with pretty much any other ethnic group.
yeah I don’t feel like the redskins logo was making fun of native people in the way this edit clearly is poking fun at white ppl, the issue with the use of ‘redskin’ is that it is an offensive term and that it is inappropriate for white people to use the likeness of a race they oppressed and killed as a mascot
but really, i don’t think there is any fair comparison.
This meme always bugged me because it’s not an equivalent portrayal of what the actual real life team mascot displays (or had displayed for several decades … but continues to display in many other leagues and communities and schools)
As an Indigenous person … this is what Native mascot logos look like to me.
It took me an EMBARRASSING amount of time to realize that was two thumbs up and not like… holding his clothes with his fingers tucked in. I was so fucking confused. I want to slap myself.
It took me an embarrassing amount of time of self reflection to edit that … the whole time I was thinking … will people think this is racist, am I racist, am I reverse-racist, is that a thing? Should I laugh at my culture? Is that allowed? Should I allow myself?
So I just burned some sweetgrass, waved my hands at the sun and hit reply
mishtikooshoo … this is word we use for white people in my language … the root word is mishtik … which means ‘stick’ or ‘wood’
Adding the ooshoo at the end associates the root word to a group or to a people or a person
So the word literally translates as … ‘man with a stick’ … the silly stick they were holding in their hands and that was so important to them was the Christian cross
When you look at the Christian faith without any knowledge about who they are and what they do or why … all you see is a ‘man with a stick’
And It only gets worse when you know who they are and what they do. One wonders what they thought when they saw that they pray to not just the stick, but to a bloody man nailed to it.
That’s good … but where I’m from in northern Ontario, we live in swamp country and we actually love winter because the land freezes over and we can freely travel over it … in the summer we become land locked or stick to canoes and rivers … but when winter arrives, we can go anywhere we want.
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