The cost to change the mascot is estimated to be around $200,000.
Weird, the minutemen were an actual group so I dunno why anyone is confused about the genderization, and if they musket is a concern just change the logo. The minutemen is way more badass than the Bears. Should have changed the logo to a Watchmen or fallout reference, though I suspect the real reason for changing the name was because of the sexual context of the name.
I’ve never in my life heard the term “Minutemen” and thought of anything sexual
The real reason is silly. They’re removing all people as mascots. Stupid but at least consistent.
No, I suspect the real change is performative anti gun bullshit.
$200,000 to change the mascot of a high school…
Think of all the branding at the school: the murals, signage, logos on apparel, and their websites. Plus the graphic design work. I don’t think $200,000 is egregiously expensive
But… Why?
I’d bet that https://lemmy.world/c/photoshopbattles would do it for tree fiddy.
If you’re gonna use an animal, use something cooler than a bear
Like an aardvark!
Or maybe a hellbender
That’s what I said. They’re same, aren’t they?
A salamander is just a cuter version of an aardvark. Apology accepted.
Yeah, or the Mongooses, that’s a good team name! “The Fighting Mongooses”!
I know that reference!
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Holy shit we are doomed as a country.
This is a perfect example of just how completely useless the Left in this country are. We have REAL problems that we face and this is the type of utter nonsense that far too many on the Left focus on.
In Europe and other parts of the industrialized world, liberal groups have given the people universal healthcare, and paternity leave, and strong consumer and labor laws. Those groups have their heads on straight, focus on important topics that everyone faces, and eventually get results. Because those groups focus on things that actually matter and that people want, the people respond by actually giving them some level of political power.
What do we have in the US? We have blue-haired idiots screaming about an honest-to-goodness patriot because his cartoon logo has a musket and the fact that the image is of a man. No wonder that even in some of the most blue cities in some of the most blue states in the country, liberal candidates can’t win local elections.
Some school district decided to change their mascot, something that happens all the time, and you turn into some big, catastrophic issue while screeching about how other people don’t have their priorities straight.
they went for the divisive political hotbutton a bit quick there, but I think I understand where the rant is coming from: we in the states seem to be more concerned with appearance of being supportive to people than we actually are supporting their basic needs and it’s pretty sad. for example, it’s insane how in LA they decided the long term solution for supporting people who lost their home during the pandemic was to call them the unhoused instead of the homeless to not use terms which may be sensitive for them. Meanwhile they continue to sleep in dangerous encampments on the street and have to shit in bags while being food insecure and getting no actual support from the people who drive by them in Teslas and Priuses every day. It’s pretty maddening as a bleeding heart liberal to be overshadowed by the the woke inclusive liberal who thinks rebranding the terms we use are more important than actually helping people by actually correcting systemic problems. Changing the mascot isn’t the problem, but I feel $200K can do a lot more good by funding programs to help the people struggling in the school who we assume are “offended” by this mascot.
I could be wrong but that’s just my interpretation of what they meant, minus the angry political rhetoric.
It’s a legit problem when you look at the sum effect of all these local activists trying to “fix” local problems that should be waaaaaay down on the priority list. It pretty much paralyzed all grassroots activist groups for a good decade or so and let Trump run rampant most of his first term.
https://theintercept.com/2022/06/13/progressive-organizing-infighting-callout-culture/
Well become a leftist and be the change that you want to be in the world. I promise you don’t have to drink soy milk.
I am more left on most (but not all issues) than most people. I am embarrassed by the majority of people who also call themselves “liberal” in this country.
true that the left is inefficient
meanwhile the right is literally stifling and blocking any social progress
Don’t forget preventing needed military promotions leaving multiple branches without command and hurting our defense readiness!!!
And that’s just the start of what they’re doing :)
What that republican senator is doing is immature but military readiness isn’t really that important considering our massive lead over every other country in the world, not to mention our extensive network of allies. Nobody is invading the USA.
Military spending needs to be cut by at least 25% and then maybe we’d have some money to spend on actually relevant concerns
But yes, it shows the partisan and regressive attitudes of the current GOP. It’s sad to see that the OC seems to care about making progress on important issues like public welfare only to get brainwashed into thinking it’s the left’s fault for being inefficient. There is some truth to that but the reason our advocates of social progress can’t get anything done is specifically because of the GOP’s zero-sum stonewalling.
We are perfectly capable of working on more than one thing at a time.
Sure, but this particular thing is stupid and a waste of time and money.
Schools often spend money on things that are only meant to make their students feel better, like pep rallies and school dances. If the students prefer their new mascot, I don’t think this is particularly stupid or wasteful in comparison.
Except this wasnt something the students asked for - it was a unilateral decision by the board
They never asked us if we liked our current mascot or if we wanted to change it. We were just told that it had to change,
Students don’t always ask for things that they benefit from. If the school improved the bus routes or auditorium and some random student exclaimed “I didn’t ask for this!”, that student would rightly be ignored.
These decisions are best left to parents, not students. And the parents elect the board. Considering how long this has been going on, parents have had plenty of opportunity to elect new board members if this wasn’t what they wanted.
The left and right are fucked. It’s the political game altogether that’s worthless and criminal. Favors for favors.
