Posted on 02/08/2021 3:28:47 AM PST by C19fan
The writer of this screed wears a tattoo of a pirate.
This is the fist Super Bowl that I fast forwarded through every single commercial
What will a member of the Commonwealth, New Zealand, do about their "All Blacks" rugby team's name?
Maybe they should be named the Tampa Bay democrats......oh wait, they are cutthroats and crooks as well.
We could rename them the Tampa Bay Hedge Fund Managers. We could rename the Redskins the Washington Lobbyists. Both are pirates of some sort.
I say bring back the toothbrush!
Jamie L.H. Goodall, a staff historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History, published her Washington Post op-ed on Friday ahead of Super Bowl LV, in which the Buccaneers faced off against the Kansas City Chiefs for the NFL championship.
‘While this celebration of piracy seems like innocent fun and pride in a local culture, there is danger in romanticizing ruthless cutthroats who created a crisis in world trade when they captured and plundered thousands of ships on Atlantic trade routes,’ Goodall wrote.
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Her stupidity is troubling on several levels. One is that she is an “historian”, which makes her lack of knowledge of history make me question her credentials. The other is an apparent propensity to virtue signal over perhaps first checking facts. One only has to google the word “buccaneer” to discover they are not pirates.
I’m so glad they made a place for women in football. I’m sure Augusta National sleeps so much better for the fact they opened it up to women.
Estrogen is a virus, not an enzyme.
and ‘pirates of the carribean’ doesn’t?
“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: First Series
Maybe it’s time?
That's the first thing I thought as well when I read her alleged bona fides.
Buccaneers were, for at least part of their history, privateers, meaning their predation was conducted with the sanction, warrant and blessing of their government. So if there is anything, "problematic," about their name, that would be it.
‘In my mind, the most disturbing part is this woman is teaching future leasers in the US Army.’
our effeminate, childish culture strikes again...
Actually my 1960 Webster's dictionary defines a buccaneer as a pirate.
I guess it depends on what materials they will be leasing.
Depp is a liberal so the movies get a pass.
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