Friday, August 12, 2005
All I really want to say about the New York senate race for next year is: Quick work. Two days as a candidate and already Jeanine Pirro is facing questions about whether her husband's conviction of tax fraud a few years ago will become a campaign issue. But then again, there is a silver lining: I don't think Hillary really wants to start comparing husbands.
An issue that is continuing to pique my interests is the ongoing battle of the Politically-Correct movement to reinvent life in all-inclusive terms. Now they are going after sports teams, both college and professional, who sport Native American nicknames, claiming they are racist. Come on! I mean, if you had the Nashville Niggers or something like that, that would certainly be racist and I could understand not wanting that. But the Florida State Seminoles? The Washington Redskins? And if they want to argue that sportsteams should not be named after humans at all, are they ever going to object to high school teams called the Crusaders? Or the Dallas Cowboys? Or the New York Knicks (short for Knickerbockers, a slang term for the Dutch)? Or heck, even for the Yankees. I mean, Yankee was a term of derision invented during the Revolutionary War and then applied to the North by Southern "racists." Maybe they could be the New York Cosmopolitans. The Cleveland Browns (named after the color) would be in real trouble too, because it could probably be argued that they are making fun of the brown brothers. And I'm sure someone will raise the same argument against the Cincinatti Reds. I guess the thing to do would be to rename all sports teams after animals, but even there we run into the PC problem. Could you call a team "the Huskies"-- a slave-dog? And get rid of the San Antonio Spurs because "spurs" can be used in cruelty to animals. And how long before someone is arguing that it's degrading to animals to be used as mascots for human sports? This thing can only go so far. Personally, I think the Native Americans ought to be honored; it shows we aren't forgetting their heritage. And minorities in general ought to stop looking for ways to be victimized and start concentrating on being productive citizens. There are only so many whites whose lives and careers you can wreck with a lawsuit to make you enough money to live comfortably the rest of your life.
An issue that is continuing to pique my interests is the ongoing battle of the Politically-Correct movement to reinvent life in all-inclusive terms. Now they are going after sports teams, both college and professional, who sport Native American nicknames, claiming they are racist. Come on! I mean, if you had the Nashville Niggers or something like that, that would certainly be racist and I could understand not wanting that. But the Florida State Seminoles? The Washington Redskins? And if they want to argue that sportsteams should not be named after humans at all, are they ever going to object to high school teams called the Crusaders? Or the Dallas Cowboys? Or the New York Knicks (short for Knickerbockers, a slang term for the Dutch)? Or heck, even for the Yankees. I mean, Yankee was a term of derision invented during the Revolutionary War and then applied to the North by Southern "racists." Maybe they could be the New York Cosmopolitans. The Cleveland Browns (named after the color) would be in real trouble too, because it could probably be argued that they are making fun of the brown brothers. And I'm sure someone will raise the same argument against the Cincinatti Reds. I guess the thing to do would be to rename all sports teams after animals, but even there we run into the PC problem. Could you call a team "the Huskies"-- a slave-dog? And get rid of the San Antonio Spurs because "spurs" can be used in cruelty to animals. And how long before someone is arguing that it's degrading to animals to be used as mascots for human sports? This thing can only go so far. Personally, I think the Native Americans ought to be honored; it shows we aren't forgetting their heritage. And minorities in general ought to stop looking for ways to be victimized and start concentrating on being productive citizens. There are only so many whites whose lives and careers you can wreck with a lawsuit to make you enough money to live comfortably the rest of your life.
// posted by The Pendragon @ 7:03 AM 
