All of Christianity is a form of cultural appropriation. I think it’s safe to say that ship sailed a long, long time ago and ain’t coming back to harbor.
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There’s a cool dog!?
Squirrel!!
(I’ll see your cool dog and raise you a woodchuck)
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Cosplay should require a costume of a character, original or otherwise, rather than of a people. And the source here would be a caricature of a people.
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“What’s the difference”, I expect would be the response.
It’s cosplay for the teams logo. It isn’t done well but that’s probably irrelevant. I don’t think a well done cosplay would be acceptable either.
Woody Allen once quipped that calling a football a team Fighting Irish is no different than calling a team the Haggling Jews. It was obviously a joke but I think there is a bit of truth in there too.
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Actually no, there is no truth in there, because it’s fucking false.
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There are of course a few key differences, such as
- The Notre Dame mascot is a Leprechaun, not an Irish person. Previously the mascot was an Irish terrier.
- Though there are conflicting accounts of where the “Fighting Irish” name originated, it seems to have involved actual Irish-Americans associated with the University rather than a wholesale case of cultural appropriation.
- Few people alive today can remember a time when Irish Americans faced any serious form of widespread discrimination, let alone wholesale genocide.
And of course most importantly
- Irish-Americans are overwhelmingly on board with the team name rather than offended by it. If millions of Irish-Americans were offended by the team name then I’d say it was due for retirement as well.
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You know, I read this, my first response was “Whoa, whoa!” Oppression Olympics? I hadn’t thought this was a points or medaling kind of thing.
I grew up just a few miles from a reservation and the way that Native Americans are treated by both the government and non-native citizens is fucking heinous. There is a great deal of social and institutional racism that does tremendous harm.
If you insist on asking the question: Who is more oppressed? Yeah, I’d say it’s much harder for Native Americans. By a country mile. Not even really a question. I didn’t think dobby was saying Jews were more oppressed.
But earlier in the thread you ask if Jews are even oppressed in the U.S. context anymore? The answer to that is yes. Not at the same level, not in the same ways, but yes.
Edited: Removed a sentence that I ended up feeling was more antagonistic than I wanted to be.
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No, I said systematically oppressed, and it was actually a rhetorical question. Because, of course, they’re not; indeed, many of them now engage in or at best overlook, ironically enough, that which is inflicted on a more recent systematically oppressed group, Palestinians.
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