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<blockquote data-quote="EthanM" data-source="post: 1458624" data-attributes="member: 173451"><p>It’s not awful.</p><p></p><p>No, wait..... it’s awful. I want them to imagine this: 100 years from now some school will be trotting out mascots of our soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ask our veterans how they would feel being relegated to mascot status. It’s just as bad or disrespectful as the Chief, and I’m a pro-Chief lifer. </p><p></p><p>If you’re not going to use Native American imagery because it’s disrespectful, don’t glorify war or make caricatures of men and women who had more guts to serve their country than most of the Board of Trustees.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EthanM, post: 1458624, member: 173451"] It’s not awful. No, wait..... it’s awful. I want them to imagine this: 100 years from now some school will be trotting out mascots of our soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ask our veterans how they would feel being relegated to mascot status. It’s just as bad or disrespectful as the Chief, and I’m a pro-Chief lifer. If you’re not going to use Native American imagery because it’s disrespectful, don’t glorify war or make caricatures of men and women who had more guts to serve their country than most of the Board of Trustees. [/QUOTE]
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