[July 24, 2021] The Cleveland Indians baseball team has officially announced yesterday that they will be renamed the Cleveland Guardians at the end of this season. The announcement came in a video on their social media site. The decision shows us that when you go stupid, sometimes you go stupid all the way.
Cleveland opted to change its name after several years of petitioning and challenges from Native American groups and fans around the country who rallied against the team name and the controversial Chief Wahoo logo. Owner Paul Dolan also said he had an “awakening or epiphany” after the death of George Floyd.
I don’t care what Cleveland names its team. Saying that the name “Indians” was somehow rooted in “racial oppression” was a nonstarter for most fans. Fan reaction to the new name seems to show they don’t care much either way. That says something about their fan base as well. Lame.
Our friends at PowerLineBlog have a point that changing the team’s nickname is just one more step toward invisibility for Native Americans. This image is what they claim is unacceptable. They add that at last, there is a name for their team, unlike Washington D.C.’s professional football franchise that is still just the “Washington Football Team.” This is just more proof that nothing ever gets done in Washington.
Here is the “offensive” image:
I wrote about how the U.S. Army names its helicopters after Indian tribes. The U.S. military was being called racists back in 2014 for doing so. Even having the consent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs didn’t throw the budding Social Justice Warriors off the scent. A little creative logic goes a long way.
Somehow, no one can explain precisely how the use of Indian names does “irreparable harm to the [Indian] community.”1 Cynthia Connolly, a citizen of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indian, hails the name change as an accomplishment of “Indigenous leadership.” Yep, leadership all right, just not the right kind.
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I don’t care, either, what they call the team because I won’t be watching them any way. I stopped watching major league baseball more than a year ago and I am happier now than ever. Those twits think they can ram some socialist claptrap down my throat can kiss my behind.
Found this comment on the web that says a lot, “The San Francisco Giants as well as the New York Giants need to change their nicknames since the term “Giants” height shames little people. Also the Dallas Cowboys need to change their name too because Cowboys are symbols of white supremacy. By the way the Atlanta Braves have to change their name too, As for the Cincinnati Reds I know the Reds is short for Redlegs, however it invokes the image of communism and that ought to go.”
Good tongue in cheek. The use of humor is banned in liberal America. Don’t ya know. General Satterfield being the exception, of course.
Humor, the last vestige of American freedom. 😊
Too many good folks to let something like this get us down. Thanks Tom and V and J for adding to the conversation. A bit of a laugh may make us feel better but in the end, it does little good when you’re going up against ideologically driven snowflakes. Show ’em the heat.
What could be more fun than watching libs self destruct.
If anyone thinks this will expand the audience of major league baseball, they’re sadly mistaken. Just one more reason to ignore professional sports. Hey, Owners! If the fans go away, your the value of your team will vanish like tulip mania!
Good analogy. I for one stopped watching MLB two years ago and will never watch them again. I’m just not into flexing my “morality” onto others.
Shouldn’t Chief Wahoo have had more than one feather?
Re: “challenges from Native American groups”…more like upset white Leftists. Reminds me of Cartoon Network’s decision years ago to ban Speedy Gonzalez, a character who also upset white Leftists. Meanwhile, Speedy continued to be shown on Cartoon Network Latin America.
Ironic, Isn’t it. Crazy leftist white liberals are driving themselves off a moral cliff.
Ha Ha…. great.