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Originally Posted by Throttlesteer
Very true. But, that can be applied both to those who are annoyed with it, or those pushing desperately to change it. As previously pointed out, there are plenty of things to be frustrated, stressed, or even ill about in 2020. I believe a lot of the annoyance is that sports teams' names should be WAY down the list of priorities.
Perhaps people have too much time and pent up frustration from sitting at home and feel they "need to make a difference"?
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As I have posted before, my hometown college in Mankato, Minnesota changed its nickname from Indians to Mavericks more than 40 years ago, and the University of Nebraska-Omaha did the same at around the same time. Stanford too. These types of changes have been mulled and made for generations now, and yet now we hear the same gripes about them being the wet dreams of so-called progressives. Now it's claimed to be part of a cancel culture and it is suggested as the product of some new wave of leftists. No one is "pushing desperately to change it", it has been a topic of change for decades.
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