{"id":6826,"date":"2003-05-19T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-20T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/19\/6826\/"},"modified":"2016-01-30T08:30:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T14:30:30","slug":"6826","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/19\/6826\/","title":{"rendered":"I May Be A Tonto Gringo, But…."},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of outraged students at UCSB are frothing about the use of the Gaucho as a symbol for the school’s mascot or some such nonsense. They’ve written to the school paper<\/a> to foam on at length about how the school mox Mexican-Americans and their descendents. Oh, yeah, here’s the response to those who might think the collegiate children are being foolish:<\/p>\n

Now some of you reading this might be immediately tempted to dismiss our commentary as some “PC” reaction to what you might perceive as a rather harmless appropriation of Mexican<\/b> culture. [Emphasis mine]<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, spare me the pillaging of your heritage. As some tonto gringos know, gauchos<\/a> roamed las pampas de Argentina<\/b>, not Mexico. And gaucho is a romanticised profession, not a race or ethnic group.<\/p>\n

See also Green Bay Packers<\/a>, the Ottawa Senators<\/a>, Seattle Mariners<\/a>, the Washington Wizards<\/a> (sorry, I had to stretch for the NBA) or, more appropriately, the Dallas Cowboys<\/a><\/b><\/i>.<\/p>\n

Still, the incited students have a great idea! Change the mascot!<\/p>\n

We propose the changing of the mascot name from UCSB Gauchos to UCSB Gavachos, a slang term used by Mexicans and Chicanos to refer to white people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That learned them Fighting Whities<\/a> guys, wot<\/a>?<\/p>\n

(Original source: Fox News Tongue Tied<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of outraged students at UCSB are frothing about the use of the Gaucho as a symbol for the school’s mascot or some such nonsense. They’ve written to the school paper to foam on at length about how the school mox Mexican-Americans and their descendents. Oh, yeah, here’s the response to those who might […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15097,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826\/revisions\/15097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}