07-13-2020, 11:59 AM
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#478
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Everybody Lies.
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: 22 Acacia Avenue
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rain Man
I mentioned this somewhere in the discussion, but if we step back and look at things in the big picture, team names are by definition an honor. When you name a team, you're borrowing the mascot's attributes that you want people to associate with you. Brave, strong, ferocious, tenacious, whatever. You're not going to name a team after something that you view as a negative.
So people can get offended however they want, and certainly there's a potential for different people to perceive names differently. But they simply can't argue that a team name is intentionally an insult.
(This ignores the Boaty McBoatface possibility such as the Santa Cruz Banana Slugs, but that's an outlier.)
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Context doesn't matter anymore.
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