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Problematic Insect
I understand that in today’s culture people on the Left are trying hard to out woke each other. I also know that colleges are the worst offenders. Despite all of that, when I saw this story I assumed it was some sort of parody.
Emory & Henry College is trying to decide if they should change their team mascot might have a negative impact on inclusion and diversity. Normally when you hear that the teams involved have some sort of Native American based name. But animal names?
It turns out that the racist name is the wasps. Now, I have been stung enough to hate the little creatures, but not because of the colors of their skin. Turn out, the flying demons are not the problem, but it is spelled the same as the acronym WASP. For those of you under 40, WASP stands for White Anglo-Saxon Protestants and was a popular phrase decades ago.
It is not clear then if they want to change the name for the sake of WASPs, the way they want to change the Indians name so not to offend Indians, or if they want non-WASPs to feel included. Most of the people I grew up with were either Irish, Italian, or Jewish. I was a WASP and that made me a minority. I was neither proud nor ashamed. So, I really could not believe this story when I saw it.
Then I went to the college’s web site and read it for myself:
Conversations must examine how Emory & Henry’s past has contributed to current and ongoing systemic oppression. For example, discussion should be renewed regarding College’s mascot, the wasp, and the impact of this mascot on inclusion and diversity on our campus.
Here is the real problem. Racism can be an awful thing, but when we redefine it to be the wrong bug on a football helmet then you make it really hard for anyone to be sympathetic.
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Go Land Crabs!
(FYI: The motto translates roughly as “Find A Way Or Create One”.)
We’re all diplomats.
They can smash the window of a sporting goods store and liberate a ball.
Ever since it became settled science that any human can be a man, this complaint has become irrelevant.
Damn you and your incontrovertible logic!
I don’t have a suggestion for what the logo should look like, but I think the school’s new nickname should be the Grovelers.
Every time I see ‘Problematic Insect’ I think, this is what Woke Emperor Ming would call you before he executed you for posting something inappropriate on Twitter.
Mine was called Frosty and boy-o-boy she was.
Mine was very affectionate with me, and with at least most other people. But she didn’t like other cats at all. Not even just seeing them outside, it seems. Because they were outside, and she was mostly inside, but still after a while she left to find a place I figured with no other cats around at all.
You need to be careful letting white cats outside. They have little melanin, and their ears get sunburned a lot. We had a white cat whose ears had to be removed because they were pre-cancerous. She looked a good bit like a seal after the operation.