"...And speaking of sports, the Civil War and being overly sensitive to all things racism...
USC To Remove Their Mascot, A Horse Named ‘Traveler’
Because It's Name Is Similar To Robert E. Lee’s Horse.
Really?
This is what's keeping these people up at night?
In California, the raging U.S. cultural battle over Civil War icons has spread to the names of horses.
At the University of Southern California, a student group has declared the equine mascot of the school’s Trojans football team to be a symbol of “white supremacy.”
Why?
Because the horse bears a name similar to that of a steed that belonged to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
The USC football horse is called Traveler (one L), while Lee’s horse was known as Traveller (two L’s).
The student group’s leader voiced her disapproval of the home team horse’s name earlier this week, at an on-campus rally to protest last week’s violence in Charlottesville, Va.
“White supremacy hits close to home,” Saphia Jackson, co-director of the USC Black Student Assembly, told fellow students, in pointing out the similarity in the horses’ names, student newspaper the Daily Trojan reported.http://www.foxnews.com/us/
You see, ESPN and the dolts at USC suffer from what we call “Offendophobia” – the illogical, inexplicable fear of offending the easily offended.
But what they fail to grasp is those who suffer from Offendophobia will never stop being offended no matter how often you cave to them.
So get ready, this will only get more absurd..."
This is what's keeping these people up at night?
In California, the raging U.S. cultural battle over Civil War icons has spread to the names of horses.
At the University of Southern California, a student group has declared the equine mascot of the school’s Trojans football team to be a symbol of “white supremacy.”
Why?
Because the horse bears a name similar to that of a steed that belonged to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
The USC football horse is called Traveler (one L), while Lee’s horse was known as Traveller (two L’s).
The student group’s leader voiced her disapproval of the home team horse’s name earlier this week, at an on-campus rally to protest last week’s violence in Charlottesville, Va.
“White supremacy hits close to home,” Saphia Jackson, co-director of the USC Black Student Assembly, told fellow students, in pointing out the similarity in the horses’ names, student newspaper the Daily Trojan reported.http://www.foxnews.com/us/
You see, ESPN and the dolts at USC suffer from what we call “Offendophobia” – the illogical, inexplicable fear of offending the easily offended.
But what they fail to grasp is those who suffer from Offendophobia will never stop being offended no matter how often you cave to them.
So get ready, this will only get more absurd..."
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