-
Welcome to AlpineZone, the largest online community of skiers and snowboarders in the Northeast!
You may have to REGISTER before you can post. Registering is FREE, gets rid of the majority of advertisements, and lets you participate in giveaways and other AlpineZone events!
This is crap is out of control!!!!
- Thread starter Puck it
- Start date
gmcunni
Active member
and Cracker Barrel
http://www.youngcons.com/cracker-barrel-to-be-called-caucasian-barrel/
http://www.youngcons.com/cracker-barrel-to-be-called-caucasian-barrel/
Puck it
Well-known member
Not Sure
Well-known member
Complaining again ?
Puck it
Well-known member
Yup that's me!
Not Sure
Well-known member
Ha ha ...Too much sensitivity and not enough get over it !
steamboat1
New member
Little people group targets ‘Midgets’ nickname
The Associated Press
FREEBURG, Ill. — As with many small towns, the biggest source of bragging rights in this agrarian outpost in southern Illinois are its high school athletes – the Freeburg Midgets.
Though town lore traces the mascot’s origin to a local reporter who was impressed by the school’s short basketball team beating larger opponents nearly a century ago, the school faces public pressure to drop the nickname – just like some college, pro and high school teams that still cling to terms once considered acceptable but now viewed as derogatory.
“We recognize that it’s not intended to have a negative impact,” Little People of America President Gary Arnold said. “But with all the history and baggage that comes with the word, it still does.”
Arnold and other group leaders delivered a 4,400-signature petition to the school this week asking to phase out the nickname within two years and to stop selling “Midget” merchandise to people from outside the community 25 miles east of St. Louis.
The word “midget” is derived from midge, a sand fly, and emerged in the 1800s to describe circus performers, according to a Little People of America flier.
Arnold said the group is targeting Freeburg – four years after visiting to discuss concerns – in hopes that a half-dozen other schools in Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin with similar nicknames will also agree to the change.
Freeburg superintendent Andrew Lehman said that while he is sympathetic to the concerns, the district has no plans to change the mascot. Supporters have organized a dueling petition and Facebook page.
“People’s perspective on what is a good mascot or a bad mascot, that’s a subjective issue,” he said. “The name stuck. The town liked it. It ought to be the decision of the people who run the school.” Still, he’ll share the group’s request at the next school board meeting.
The Associated Press
FREEBURG, Ill. — As with many small towns, the biggest source of bragging rights in this agrarian outpost in southern Illinois are its high school athletes – the Freeburg Midgets.
Though town lore traces the mascot’s origin to a local reporter who was impressed by the school’s short basketball team beating larger opponents nearly a century ago, the school faces public pressure to drop the nickname – just like some college, pro and high school teams that still cling to terms once considered acceptable but now viewed as derogatory.
“We recognize that it’s not intended to have a negative impact,” Little People of America President Gary Arnold said. “But with all the history and baggage that comes with the word, it still does.”
Arnold and other group leaders delivered a 4,400-signature petition to the school this week asking to phase out the nickname within two years and to stop selling “Midget” merchandise to people from outside the community 25 miles east of St. Louis.
The word “midget” is derived from midge, a sand fly, and emerged in the 1800s to describe circus performers, according to a Little People of America flier.
Arnold said the group is targeting Freeburg – four years after visiting to discuss concerns – in hopes that a half-dozen other schools in Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin with similar nicknames will also agree to the change.
Freeburg superintendent Andrew Lehman said that while he is sympathetic to the concerns, the district has no plans to change the mascot. Supporters have organized a dueling petition and Facebook page.
“People’s perspective on what is a good mascot or a bad mascot, that’s a subjective issue,” he said. “The name stuck. The town liked it. It ought to be the decision of the people who run the school.” Still, he’ll share the group’s request at the next school board meeting.
Puck it
Well-known member
I saw that one too. Redskins can not trademark anything anymore too.
steamboat1
New member
ctenidae
Active member
The midget article is kind of weird- they're saying that what was once considered acceptable isn't any more, which I get. Except, the original meaning of midget seems much worse, and totally not applicable any more, so seems to me that word actually went the other way, and is no longer a derogatory term. Of course, I'm not a little person, so not my call. Little Person strikes me as a worse term. Sure, you're a person, but you're only a little person, so maybe not a whole one. I don't know.
Not Sure
Well-known member
Not Sure
Well-known member
That's got to be an April fools joke!
Not Sure
Well-known member
My kids Cross Country Race ....All #1
Puck it
Well-known member
WTF!!! Why?
My kids Cross Country Race ....All #1
Abubob
Well-known member
"Short people got...no reason..."
from_the_NEK
Active member
Disrespecting dead skunks is apparently offensive as well.
WCAX posted a picture of a roadkill skunk that received an extra stripe last night via a road painting crew.
I thought it was pretty funny.
Welllllllllllllllllllll............
Cue the major butt hurt!
Outrage from tree huggers, anti abortionists, and "how my tax dollars were mis-spent!"ers.
https://www.facebook.com/WCAXTV/pho...683795442/?type=1&comment_tracking={"tn":"O"}
WTF is happening?
WCAX posted a picture of a roadkill skunk that received an extra stripe last night via a road painting crew.
I thought it was pretty funny.
Welllllllllllllllllllll............
Cue the major butt hurt!
Outrage from tree huggers, anti abortionists, and "how my tax dollars were mis-spent!"ers.
https://www.facebook.com/WCAXTV/pho...683795442/?type=1&comment_tracking={"tn":"O"}
WTF is happening?
Abubob
Well-known member
bigbog
Active member
Politicians = whores. Anything for a vote..come election time.
ScottySkis
Well-known member
Just then.
Similar threads
