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Posted on 04/20/2017 1:50:43 PM PDT by C19fan
The San Diego State University student government voted Wednesday to keep the school’s Aztec warrior mascot, rejecting claims that the mascot is a symbol of cultural appropriation.
Following a lengthy and acrimonious debate, the Associated Student Council voted 14-12-1 against a resolution that would have called on the school to drop the Aztec name and mascot, reports NBC 7 San Diego.
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It’s all about the torture, human sacrifice and cannibalism. Fits the campus vibe at SDSU.
I was thinking the Fighting Snowflakes or maybe the Pajama Persons.
How about the Fightin’ Kelp???
As if there isn’t enough BULLSH!T going on around college campuses, these fools have to complain and worry abou t a damn nickname and mascot!!!!!!
For God’s Sake!!! Grow UP and act your ages for once in your lives....
They got rid of “Monty Montezuma” (i.e. frat boy making a fool of himself at football games) years ago, which was a good thing, not because of political correctness but because it was just stupid.
I am micro-aggressed by this outrage. I’ll be in my safe space cowering, yearning for the enlightened day when only obese disabled African American lesbians are allowed to be college mascots for social justice.
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Meanwhile, south of the border in TJ, there is a pillar with a statue of the last AZTEC emperor Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma, on it.
How many Aztecs were complaining?
I thought North Dakota should have changed from The Fighting Sioux to The Negotiating Sioux.
They still have an Aztec warrior mascot at their games, it’s just that he’s more “authentic.” No human sacrifice at the 50 yard line yet though.
Years ago the PC police forced SDSU to abandon use of a Montezuma face caricature (nobody knows what he looked like anyway) that appeared on helmets and on the field. There also was a campaign to ban mascot, Monty Montezuma, a muscular student dressed as Montezuma, who ran onto the field at the beginning of football games and planted a spear in challenge to the opposition. Don’t know if that succeeded.
More like the “Starving Sioux.”
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My high school “mascot” was also “Aztec”. Wonder what it is now. Last time I was in the neighborhood, it was populated 99% by families from Southeast Asia. Quite a change from the Chicano ‘hood of my youth.
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