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Powershift posted:Team name checks out. drat
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Another Bill posted:Hot on the heels of the Ethan Bear racism.... not a good look Edmonton. look it's the elks not the bears, it's totally different
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Terror Sweat posted:Eskimo is a slur? there are people who call themselves that, but that's not who most people mean when they say that word; yeah
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Powershift posted:Team name checks out. lol
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Jun 1, 2021 23:22
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Coxswain Balls posted:Why would people be mad, now you have an excuse to wear big rear end antler crowns to games. Seriously. Elks is a better name anyway.
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Jun 1, 2021 23:22
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Kinda funny that the team that wears John Deere colours gets renamed to Elks.
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Jun 1, 2021 23:50
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Edmonton Ungulates imo
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Terror Sweat posted:Eskimo is a slur? in the mid 90s I got in trouble with my teacher because the I did a book report on a book with an Eskimo, and I should have known this was offensive and corrected the book and my book report to Inuit
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Sorry you got cancelled.
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I don't have another 5 pages in me, lets all just accept it's a slur and move on please.
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Inuit means "the people" and Inuk means "person". So use Inuit for a group or the people in general and one person is an Inuk.
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It’s a more complicated word than some other slurs, because there are groups that use it to self identify. mostly in Alaska not Canada we probably shouldn’t have a football team called the Edmonton Inuits either though so whatever. maybe just stay away from calling your sports teams after peoples
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Jun 2, 2021 01:41
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Jordan7hm posted:maybe just stay away from calling your sports teams after peoples it's been this all along
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Jun 2, 2021 01:57
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You can quantify when a word was generally recognised as a slur by the last time The Simpsons used it, in this case 1993
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Jun 2, 2021 01:58
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There's a lot of poo poo that needs to be renamed in Canada. It's relatively easy to do if people in power actually care to do it, like Langevin School in Calgary. I hope it gets done immediately and there's a push to actually get clean water to the First Nations, fix the foster care system, abolish the police, etc.
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Jun 2, 2021 02:07
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Jordan7hm posted:maybe just stay away from calling your sports teams after peoples Chicago Baby Humans excepted.
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Testicular Torque Wrench posted:the state is areligious. therefore, no person who works for the state can show any type of religious affiliation or partisanship. The tautology of laicite is wild man. No you see because we've decided to be intolerant of other people, we are allowed to enact discriminatory laws and it's ok. See? We're actually in the clear thanks to "laicite."
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Femtosecond posted:The tautology of laicite is wild man. No you see because we've decided to be intolerant of other people, we are allowed to enact discriminatory laws and it's ok. See? We're actually in the clear thanks to "laicite." I ended up looking up the origins of laïcité and discovered that the original French secularism acts simply don't apply in the Alsace and Moselle regions, as they were part of the German Empire when the law was signed and nobody gave enough of a gently caress to write an amendment to include them after Alsace-Lorraine was returned to France. The state thus still officially supports Catholicism in two administrative districts, which serves as a convenient way for the Church to be able to gently caress around with French governance if they need to. This is exactly the kind of bizarre rules lawyering that I can see influencing Quebec nationalist quasi-anti-secularism.
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Can we change the title to [loser leafs]
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Jordan7hm posted:we probably shouldn’t have a football team called the Edmonton Inuits either though so whatever. maybe just stay away from calling your sports teams after peoples Aren't there enough animals that you could name every sports team on Earth after a different animal and still have enough animals left over for several dozen-if-not-hundred entirely new sports leagues? Plus animals are a heck of a lot easier to merchandise.
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Randalor posted:Aren't there enough animals that you could name every sports team on Earth after a different animal and still have enough animals left over for several dozen-if-not-hundred entirely new sports leagues? Plus animals are a heck of a lot easier to merchandise. which name? the name given to the animal by the indigenous peoples of that region in which the animal is found or the name given by the colonialist powers?
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Randalor posted:Aren't there enough animals that you could name every sports team on Earth after a different animal and still have enough animals left over for several dozen-if-not-hundred entirely new sports leagues? Plus animals are a heck of a lot easier to merchandise. The Edmonton Hominids
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What's funny about the Quebec discourse is that the "Quebec is a colonized country" discourse is taken completely seriously in the Quebecois left to this day. Nevermind the first world living standards in Quebec today.
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Jun 2, 2021 13:22
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Randalor posted:Aren't there enough animals that you could name every sports team on Earth after a different animal and still have enough animals left over for several dozen-if-not-hundred entirely new sports leagues? Plus animals are a heck of a lot easier to merchandise. maybe don't start with the birds, though
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Jun 2, 2021 13:57
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Noblesse Obliged posted:which name? the name given to the animal by the indigenous peoples of that region in which the animal is found or the name given by the colonialist powers? ... are you really nitpicking the suggestion that didn't involve the dehumanization of entire groups of people into parodies?
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flakeloaf posted:maybe don't start with the birds, though The Edmonton Tippi Hedrens doesn’t roll off the tongue nearly as well though.
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Randalor posted:... are you really nitpicking the suggestion that didn't involve the dehumanization of entire groups of people into parodies? i personally would name all teams after anmials but i would also invent new names for the animals, so as to be entirely neutral. the Toronto Jerglamits, the Victoria Clorngemodes, and the Montreal Gerps.
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Randalor posted:... are you really nitpicking the suggestion that didn't involve the dehumanization of entire groups of people into parodies? Learning about transatlantic elk nomenclature is a road to madness
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Arivia posted:The Edmonton Tippi Hedrens doesn’t roll off the tongue nearly as well though. Boobies beat the Tits 22-6, Bush Tyrants held back a late push from the Shags to win 17-14, and the Saskatchewan Throat Warblers beat the Ottawa Throatwarblers HOW DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING
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Jun 2, 2021 14:11
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Noblesse Obliged posted:which name? the name given to the animal by the indigenous peoples of that region in which the animal is found or the name given by the colonialist powers? Alright, the Edmonton Wapiti it is. Someone notify the league.
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Jun 2, 2021 14:21
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Another Bill posted:Alright, the Edmonton Wapiti it is. Someone notify the league. I like it
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Noblesse Obliged posted:I like it quote:The Shawnee name, wapiti, means "white-rump". I was just kidding around but when the shoe REALLY fits....
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Okay, I'll admit it, I just want to see a team called the Dodo Birds. Wait, can there be a league where the botton-ranking team has to change their name to the Dodo Birds for the following year's league?
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Randalor posted:Okay, I'll admit it, I just want to see a team called the Dodo Birds. Wait, can there be a league where the botton-ranking team has to change their name to the Dodo Birds for the following year's league? Yes, Blaseball.
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ToxicAcne posted:What's funny about the Quebec discourse is that the "Quebec is a colonized country" discourse is taken completely seriously in the Quebecois left to this day. Nevermind the first world living standards in Quebec today. Oof. These colonizers are victims because the other colonizers colonized a little harder than they did!
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Noblesse Obliged posted:someone once used the term “lingua franca” in describing English being the dominant language and the need to preserve French with absolutely no introspection on why “lingua franca” was a thing if they put it in italics that'd be 
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Juul-Whip posted:the same week 250 little child skeletons were found in a mass grave in BC is an especially great time to prattle on about how the Quebecois are unsung victims of racial prejudice in this country Was going to say I checked the Canada CSPAM thread, see 450 posts and think "wow, such lengthy discussion of the 215 kids foudn in Kamloops" Read thread: Oh, its Quebechat (the t is silent)
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it reminds me of a story I heard in Vienna about how Maria Theresia was an empress of the people. she heard a young Mozart play for her court and shocked the assembly by speaking German to him instead of French as French was the language of power throughout Europe for 200 years but now they are totally like Black people
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