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06-09-2014, 10:19 PM | #21 |
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The worst team names I have seen in my fictional leagues are the Manhattan Terrors and Oklahoma City Bombers.
Very little offends me but even I had to change those. |
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One of the team nicknames I've seen for years in OOTP is "Nightriders." I always change it, even for single A or rookie league teams I never look at. For an American, especially a black American, that name brings to mind certain very unpleasant parts of our history.
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I'm Buck Melanoma. Moley Russell's wart. Not her wart. Not her wart! I'm... I'm the wart. She's my tumor. My... my growth. My... uh, my pimple. I'm Uncle Wart. Just old Buck "Wart" Russell. That's what they call me, or Melanoma Head. They'll call me that. "Melanoma Head's coming."
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No matter what it is actually supposed to refer to here, the term "night rider" has a very unique and unpleasant meaning to African-Americans.
@ Abe - I've added you to my "ignore" list. But I also pray that you or someone you love will never have personal experience with the disease you are joking about.
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But there's certainly nothing wrong with you removing it personally from your game if it bothers you. Personally I remove all the ethnic references - even things like Vikings - from the team nickname database, because I don't find them appropriate. It's your game, play it your way.
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@ Antonin: So you've never seen Uncle Buck before? Not really Candy's best, nor Culkin's, but it does exist outside of your vacuum
There are plenty of team names that someone may be offended by; just look at the whole Redskins debate. I was unaware of the history of Night Riders; When I hear that, I always think of a black Trans Am driven by a really bad actor. I attended Eastern Michigan University a couple years after they changed their name. A few of the things I learned there: 1) Even if he's 6'8", skinny, wearing shorts, t-shirt, and sneakers, it is offensive to ask a black man if he plays basketball 2) People can be offended by anything. A faculty member who was a part of the name changing process recounted how they were going to call themselves the Rough Riders (because Theodore Roosevelt had a home in Ypsilanti). All systems were go, until a staff member complained that she was offended at the name, because Rough Riders are a type of Condom. The final result was EMU changed their name to the (generic) Eagles; a name that offended generations of alumni.
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Almost anything anyone writes has the potential to offend someone. That's no reason for everybody to fall silent, or for some subjects to never be mentioned again.
I found the brain tumor comments earlier in the thread to be personally painful and really tasteless, but that doesn't mean that the guy can't write them or something like them if he chooses to.
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Completely agreed. If you have a problem with what someone writes on here being offensive, just block them. No need to broadcast it and make a big deal out of a stupid comment.
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There's a difference between being aware of potential interpretations and being too afraid to say anything of note for fear of offending others, IMO. The night riders would be a good example of this, I think. Nobody's advocating avoiding the use of the phrase entirely, but many people had no idea that there might be a potentially offensive historical reference involved. Now, people can make a somewhat informed decision as to whether or not they care about the reference. Personally, I hear the Knight Rider theme song in my head whenever I see that nickname, but that's just me. I think there's also a difference between a painful reminder of a bad memory and something that is offensive, IMO, but there's room for interpretation all around. |
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so wait...The Wolf and Antonin have never seen Uncle Buck?!?!?! Geez, that is a classic, no matter how horrible the movie is. I swear, John Candy could have movies with horrible storylines but his humor and acting were amazing! That quote Abe posted, and the picture, is from the first five minutes of the movie.
Even though, my personal favorite Candy movie is "Who's Harry Crumb?" |
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I agree that having an option to turn off nicknames would be appropriate.
As to the rest of this thread... You have every right to be offended, and I have every right to not care that you are offended. |
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You have the right to not care that I'm offended, and I have the right to not care that you don't care that I don't care that you don't care. Can we get back to talking about cocks now?
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I don't care.
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Have any of you been to one of the Mighty Cocks home games? I would like to know what their mascot wears?
Before any of you say it, we all know what the mascot would wear if it were raining. |
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