{"id":44638,"date":"2021-07-31T08:41:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T15:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=44638"},"modified":"2021-07-31T08:41:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T15:41:04","slug":"sound-off-7-31-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/07\/31\/sound-off-7-31-21\/","title":{"rendered":"SOUND OFF! 7\/31\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You have probably head that Cleveland\u2019s baseball franchise is changing its name from the Indians to the Guardians. Progressives are hailing this as an acknowledgement that Native Americans\/First Nations peoples are human beings, entitled to dignity, not caricatures to be stitched on a sports uniform. People have been demanding this change for years.<\/p>\n

I like the choice of \u201cGuardians” because it is uniquely Cleveland, an homage to the Art Deco Guardians of Traffic on the Hope Memorial Bridge. Other names suggested included the \u201cRockers\u201d and \u201cRock\u201d because the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is located in Cleveland. \u201cSpiders\u201d was suggested since Cleveland once had a team bearing that name. I would have been happy with any of those, but I\u2019m glad they selected \u201cGuardians.\u201d Besides, there will be inevitable references to the Guardians of the Galaxy<\/i> movies.<\/p>\n

Now right-wingers are losing their feces – over a sports mascot. A SPORTS MASCOT, y\u2019all. Who are \u201csnowflakes\u201d now? You howl about knee-jerk liberals, while your conservative knees jerk just as readily, if not even more so. China is threatening war, the global environment is going to hell in a handbasket, and you wig out over a baseball team changing its name. Since when is it bad to realize that reducing certain ethnicities and races to silly team symbols is disrespectful? Do you view this change as wokeness or political correctness run amok? Do you fear a slippery slope that will call for all human-based team names to change? Do you lose bladder control at the thought of the Kansas City Chiefs, Atlanta Braves, Chicago Blackhawks, and the like having to find new designations?<\/p>\n

The Washington Redskins finally agreed to change their appellation; it will be interesting to learn what name Washington\u2019s franchise, which is now going by the dull-as-dishwater \u201cWashington Football Team,\u201d selects after next season. Ideas ranging from Griffins to Firefighters have come from a variety of sources. Whatever the decision is, let us consider just how far we want to go with eliminating offensive mascots. Where do you draw the line?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You have probably head that Cleveland\u2019s baseball franchise is changing its name from the Indians to the Guardians. Progressives are hailing this as an acknowledgement that Native Americans\/First Nations peoples are human beings, entitled to dignity, not caricatures to be stitched on a sports uniform. People have been demanding this change for years. I like […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}