Notre Dame’s luck ran out Wednesday when its Fighting Irish leprechaun was slammed for being the fourth most offensive college football team mascot in the nation, according to a new survey.
The little green guy caught heat for cultural appropriation — with critics calling him a disparaging symbol of Irish Catholics— after ranking only slightly better than San Diego State’s Aztec Warrior, Florida State’s Osceola and Renegade and the University of Hawaii’s Vili the Warrior, according to a survey by the sports apparel company Quality Logo Products.
The Seminole community, i.e. Seminole Indians, love FSU and their mascot. The only people who don't are do-gooder fucks. If they ever try to change that mascot, look for the Seminole nation to have a collective shit hemorrhage. Should be fun to watch.
What if a school called themselves the WASPS?
“If a mascot — any mascot — is offensive to anyone, it should be reconsidered,”
Anyone? Everything is offensive to at least somebody.
Then I understood...this came from Jean. A 25-year-old Jean. 25 year old Jean who lives in NYC and is an ' actor'.
At least ND will 'consider' Jean's request then say "Just shut up and get me my order".
Its offensive that ND pretends to speak for Irish people. It has no right or claim to do so. Context is everything. One persons song of celebration can be anothers song of oppression.
The well-known Radetzsky March is an example. It celebrates a feldmarschall's crushing of a rebellion by the Milanese against the good and proper rulers of Milan, the Hapsburgs. It was a bloody slaughter. ND spits on Irish heritage through a crass racial stereotype.
Who here knows an Irishman that does NOT think it is awesome that the Song of Their People is literally the sound of a beer bottle being broken over someones head in a pub brawl? The only people who are offended are not Irish.
sheesh