The cost to change the mascot is estimated to be around $200,000.
Weird, the minutemen were an actual group so I dunno why anyone is confused about the genderization, and if they musket is a concern just change the logo. The minutemen is way more badass than the Bears. Should have changed the logo to a Watchmen or fallout reference, though I suspect the real reason for changing the name was because of the sexual context of the name.
I’ve never in my life heard the term “Minutemen” and thought of anything sexual
No, I suspect the real change is performative anti gun bullshit.
$200,000 to change the mascot of a high school…
But… Why?
I’d bet that https://lemmy.world/c/photoshopbattles would do it for tree fiddy.
If you’re gonna use an animal, use something cooler than a bear
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Or maybe a hellbender
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Yeah, or the Mongooses, that’s a good team name! “The Fighting Mongooses”!
Holy shit we are doomed as a country.
This is a perfect example of just how completely useless the Left in this country are. We have REAL problems that we face and this is the type of utter nonsense that far too many on the Left focus on.
In Europe and other parts of the industrialized world, liberal groups have given the people universal healthcare, and paternity leave, and strong consumer and labor laws. Those groups have their heads on straight, focus on important topics that everyone faces, and eventually get results. Because those groups focus on things that actually matter and that people want, the people respond by actually giving them some level of political power.
What do we have in the US? We have blue-haired idiots screaming about an honest-to-goodness patriot because his cartoon logo has a musket and the fact that the image is of a man. No wonder that even in some of the most blue cities in some of the most blue states in the country, liberal candidates can’t win local elections.
Some school district decided to change their mascot, something that happens all the time, and you turn into some big, catastrophic issue while screeching about how other people don’t have their priorities straight.
they went for the divisive political hotbutton a bit quick there, but I think I understand where the rant is coming from: we in the states seem to be more concerned with appearance of being supportive to people than we actually are supporting their basic needs and it’s pretty sad. for example, it’s insane how in LA they decided the long term solution for supporting people who lost their home during the pandemic was to call them the unhoused instead of the homeless to not use terms which may be sensitive for them. Meanwhile they continue to sleep in dangerous encampments on the street and have to shit in bags while being food insecure and getting no actual support from the people who drive by them in Teslas and Priuses every day. It’s pretty maddening as a bleeding heart liberal to be overshadowed by the the woke inclusive liberal who thinks rebranding the terms we use are more important than actually helping people by actually correcting systemic problems. Changing the mascot isn’t the problem, but I feel $200K can do a lot more good by funding programs to help the people struggling in the school who we assume are “offended” by this mascot.
I could be wrong but that’s just my interpretation of what they meant, minus the angry political rhetoric.
It’s a legit problem when you look at the sum effect of all these local activists trying to “fix” local problems that should be waaaaaay down on the priority list. It pretty much paralyzed all grassroots activist groups for a good decade or so and let Trump run rampant most of his first term.
https://theintercept.com/2022/06/13/progressive-organizing-infighting-callout-culture/
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