No irony, just idiocy

So I haven't said anything about my cultural geography class in a while. Until today. I swear, my professor seems to look for ways to get pissed off at stuff 'white people' did centuries ago.

Today we were talking about representations in sports (Mascots and stuff like that), focusing on Native American representation. And he says 'I find it sort of ironic that Washington, DC has a sports team named after Native Americans...especially when it was the city that drafted the law that forced millions of Native Americans from their homes and transplanted them in the Midwest.'

I guess.

That's a real round-about way to get offended though. I find it really hard to believe that a bunch of team owners were sitting around in the 40's and 50's like 'Hey, you know how a couple hundred years ago we gathered all them injuns up and shipped 'em to Oklahoma? Didn't that kick ass? Hey, why don't we start a football team in Washington DC and name it after 'em! That'll show them buffalo-eatin' turds what for!'

Pretty much any sports mascot is a stereotype of some kind. I mean, ranchers don't get all pissed off at the Cowboys, steel mill workers don't get all pissed off at the Steelers, beer makers don't protest the Brewers, priests aren't upset about the Padres, people north of the Mason Dixon line aren't offended by the Yankees...you get the idea.

This is America. Face it, we're all stereotypical. We don't mean anything by it, it just makes things funnier.

I'm so sick of people whining about it. 'If someone was stereotyping your ethnicity for a sports mascot, you'd be offended too.' Oh whaaah. The day a major sport comes out with the 'Atlanta White Guys', I'm buying season tickets. Better yet, the Atlanta Jews. So long as the mascot is some burly Rabbi with a big hat. That would rule. Though they'd probably only stay in Atlanta til they were old enough to retire. Then they'd move the team to Miami.