REPORT: Washington Redskins Will Likely Change To The Washington Warriors.
Come on, son: “Warriors” has been racist for over 25 years. Anyone remember these guys?
Yeah, me either.
Gosh, after 26 years, I guess I have to explain. The Marquette University mascot had been the Warriors for fifty years when a couple of activists of some stripe or another decided that the word “warrior” was demeaning to native Americans (the depiction was of a native American warrior, one iteration of which wore a historically appropriate outfit that native tribes helped design), so they held a poll amongst students to rename them. Strangely enough, my votes for Jumpin’ Jesuits and Fighting Octopi were wasted, as the first round yielded not the result that the university wanted, so they had a run-off to get the result they wanted. You can read my contemporaneous column for the Marquette Tribune here and a more recent history of Marquette mascots here.
And the clock is ticking for them to discover that the “golden” part of Golden Eagles is racist. And “Eagles” might be jingoisticly patriotic or something.
Meanwhile, Marquette University is in the news again in an unflattering way, again:
Marquette University is a ridiculously left-wing institution, but this, from the College Fix, is appalling. An incoming freshman may have her acceptance revoked because she is a Trump supporter….
So, Brian J., you’re a profligate supporter of education, giving money to various schools and churches across the country, but how much do you give to Marquette every year? None, gentle reader: I already paid for what I got from them. I chose Marquette when I was twelve years old, and when I went there it was starting to be an environment where a conservative was an outlier. Now, I’m sure, it’s a place that’s unsafe for conservatives because the other students feel unsafe. And, I remind you, it has its first lay president instead of a Jesuit, so it’s on the clock for its Catholic affiliation ending entirely. So, yeah, let it do its thing there.
(Link via Instapundit.)
The schtick of pointing out how someone else had given in order to reduce my tuition, and thus I should give to help someone else, made no sense to me. I should pay you now because I (or technically my folks) didn’t have to pay you so much back then? Maybe you should have just billed me the proper amount back then, chuckles. Caveat emptor and all that.
When I worked at a college in the first half of the aughts, the alumni association had starting hitting up the seniors who were still on campus to begin to give
They’ve called me in the past, but they don’t any more.
I wonder what shape universities will be in come 2021. I can’t imagine they’ll be in a good place.