This is a Crusader image [1096]...
(Oh, I get it, they both have 'plumes' on helmets, silly me!)
Posted on 07/16/2020 8:35:31 AM PDT by C19fan
Capital University announced in a statement by the Chair of the Board of Trustees Andre Porter and Interim President Dave Kaufman that the university will change its mascot, Cappy the Crusader, after the Board of Trustees passed a resolution in favor of doing so.
The Board of Trustees completed “a 15-month process of study, discussion, and reflection.” Their studies showed that “a significant portion of the Capital Family” agreed that the “nickname and mascot should be a unifying symbol that enhances school spirit and pride for all who are affiliated with Capital.”
The university community recently “challenged” the nickname because of “its connection to the historic Crusades.”
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...
“The Board of Trustees completed “a 15-month process of study, discussion, and reflection.”
Jeez these people think highly of themselves.
Pandering to musloids. To be a crusader is a noble thing. Musloids would turn it into an insult. Do not let the muzz win.
This is a Crusader image [1096]...
(Oh, I get it, they both have 'plumes' on helmets, silly me!)
We've also had military hardware named "Crusader."
100 years ago the African Blood Brotherhood for African Liberation and Redemption (American communists) called their newspaper the Crusader.
Several student newspapers are called The Crusader.
Webster's says a Crusade is "a remedial enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm" such as a "crusade against drunk driving." Guess that's bad too?
Well, start pulling down statues of Eisenhower. He referred to his mission as “the Great Crusade.”
Number one, the Crusades were 100 percent self-defense and completely justified, and are only an issue for jihadists and islamofascists and their spineless enablers.
Number two, mascots are not the problem, sports scholarships are the problem.
Number three, until now, I doubt that 99% of the world had ever heard of either the school or the mascot.
I don’t get it. What’s wrong with the Crusades?
{You: good points all!}
Unifying symbol: "Kum ba yah" ... mascot could be a kitten.
They were christian. Crusade the word is derived from crux which means cross.
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“Number one, the Crusades were 100 percent self-defense and completely justified, and are only an issue for jihadists and islamofascists and their spineless enablers.”
Are you trying to reason with slobbering morons again?
Yeah, I must not have been thinking it through. :^)
Nope. Neither image shows what a Crusader looked like. The first is obviously a Roman, as was pointed out already. With the latter one, full plate armor was only common around 1400-1550. By then the Crusades were over, unless you count the final war against the Moors in Spain (1481-1492), and the “Baltic Crusade” led by Germans of the Teutonic Order, against the pagan/Catholic Lithuanians and Orthodox Russians.
For the Crusaders you are probably thinking of (those going to the Middle East in the 11th-13th centuries), the armor usually worn was chain mail, topped by a steel cap with a nose guard. And there definitely has to be a cross on the outfit somewhere!
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Cappy the mascot canceled for ‘connection to the historic Crusades’
7/16/2020, 11:35:31 AM · by C19fan · 13 replies
Campus Reform ^ | July 16, 2020 | Lacey Kestecher
Oh I agree, I wanted to find an image without a Crusader Cross and did it in haste. As you say the best image might be from the Bayeux Tapestry of the Norman Invasion. Only 30 years between the two timeframes.
Might be a little less dressed for the climate in the Levant.
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