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Originally Posted by Hooray Saturday
unfortunately the team still encourages it, they don't play the song, but they play the drumbeat and have the visual of the light-up war club chopping in the stadium and that definitely gets the rednecks excited to participate in some obnoxious cultural appropriation!
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As a lifelong Braves fan and Atlanta native, this is exactly right. I've sat out the chop in recent years once I realized how freaking weird and inappropriate it is, but I obviously realize it's going nowhere from the larger fanbase any time soon. (Probably never, given how half this country and even an even higher percentage in stages like GA and FL want to send us back to the stone age--they'll do it forever just out of spite) At the very least, the team should stop leading it in any fashion and that's a really simple, obvious change.
Also, switching to the Hammers would be freaking awesome.