You're saying that is nothing more than political correctness at work when Native American tribes ask schools to change their names which they find offensive.
No. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that the NCAA's involvement in this issue has to do with projecting an image of political correctness. Frankly, the NCAA has no business doing this. If a tribe has a problem with a school using its tribe name as a mascot, the proper entity with which to raise the issue is the school, not the National Collegiate Athletics Association. In addition, the NCAA's "solution" seems to discount the original poster's statment that the Seminole Council voted in favor of backing FSU in keeping the mascot. Apparently, if the NCAA says it's offensive, it's offensive regardless of whether the allegedly slandered ethinicity thinks it's offensive.
Were Notre Dame being PC when they banned Stanford's band for making fun of Catholics? for having people dressed as priests simulating sex with people dressed as nuns?
Yes and no. Yes because kids are kids and they do stupid offensice shit like that. They should take it in stride.
No, because it was their stadium, and they can do what they want in their stadium.
Is this part of the slippery slope you speak of?
No. Because this has nothing to do with the NCAA's power to force a school to change its mascot.
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And one more thing. Where do you draw the line? If the Lakota tribe thinks FSU's use of the Seminole name is offensive, do you ban FSU from using "Seminoles" just because another Native American tribe thinks that no Native American tribe name should be used as a mascot? That is the slippery slope of which I speak.
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Steve Perkins
No. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that the NCAA's involvement in this issue has to do with projecting an image of political correctness. Frankly, the NCAA has no business doing this. If a tribe has a problem with a school using its tribe name as a mascot, the proper entity with which to raise the issue is the school, not the National Collegiate Athletics Association. In addition, the NCAA's "solution" seems to discount the original poster's statment that the Seminole Council voted in favor of backing FSU in keeping the mascot. Apparently, if the NCAA says it's offensive, it's offensive regardless of whether the allegedly slandered ethinicity thinks it's offensive.
Were Notre Dame being PC when they banned Stanford's band for making fun of Catholics? for having people dressed as priests simulating sex with people dressed as nuns?
Yes and no. Yes because kids are kids and they do stupid offensice shit like that. They should take it in stride.
No, because it was their stadium, and they can do what they want in their stadium.
Is this part of the slippery slope you speak of?
No. Because this has nothing to do with the NCAA's power to force a school to change its mascot.
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And one more thing. Where do you draw the line? If the Lakota tribe thinks FSU's use of the Seminole name is offensive, do you ban FSU from using "Seminoles" just because another Native American tribe thinks that no Native American tribe name should be used as a mascot? That is the slippery slope of which I speak.
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Steve Perkins