{"id":37673,"date":"2013-06-07T17:35:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T23:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/07\/mascots-alumni-and-correctness-oh-my.html"},"modified":"2013-06-10T06:27:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T12:27:02","slug":"mascots-alumni-and-correctness-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/07\/mascots-alumni-and-correctness-oh-my.html","title":{"rendered":"Mascots, Alumni, and Correctness, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"
While acknowledging that I'm of the privileged class when it comes to matters of diversity, I find the brouhaha about school mascots (from all directions) to be by turns highly amusing and intensely annoying.<\/p>\n

I don't see anything particularly wrong or "un-diverse" about Denver Boone (caveat stated above), so getting into a PC snit about him seems more driven by ideology than caring about people. \u00a0On the other hand, the folks who treat changing of the official mascot as some sort of existential threat also strike me as people who are getting way too invested in the matter.<\/p><\/div>\n

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While acknowledging that I'm of the privileged class when it comes to matters of diversity, I find the brouhaha about school mascots (from all directions) to be by turns highly amusing and intensely annoying. I don't see anything particularly wrong or "un-diverse" about Denver Boone (caveat stated above), so getting into a PC snit about … Continue reading “Mascots, Alumni, and Correctness, Oh My!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,46,67,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-school-daze","category-media-sports","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128250,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/06\/looking-at-native-american-mascots-in-colorado-high-schools.html","url_meta":{"origin":37673,"position":0},"title":"Looking at Native American mascots in Colorado high schools","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Oct-15 4:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The state is getting carefully -- too carefully, according to some -- into the discussion of high schools in the state that have Native American mascots. 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