Kinda makes a bit more sense when you consider that the school is in Sultan, Washington and it's address is on Turk Drive.
But also: Washington state.... redneck?
As an European, I can confirm that all Americans (south and north) are Yankee rednecks
As someone from the east side of the state, it definitely fits. Friends joke that I live in West Idaho.
Outside of Seattle/Tacoma, very redneck. Get up to the mountains where they make all the meth and the cattle farms are pretty redneck too, but they have stripper coffee shacks nearby.
You don't even have to go that far, I used to live in a coastal Navy town that had a meth problem. I bought my car from a dealership that got busted 6 months later. KFC was where they sold the meth that was cooked in the Ford dealership across the street. I almost miss Oak Harbor...
Does it though? Like saying the Germantown school mascot should be the Krauts.
Other Options:
Viziers
Janissaries
Genies
Bombards
Footstools
Istan-Bulls
Harem Girls
Mhmm
Wait, what were we talking about again?
People always expect Oregon and Washington to be super liberal but once you leave the city it's a bunch of hicks in the woods (respectfully)
I believe it. Even here in California small mountain towns tend to lean heavily conservative
Yes, if you're more than an hour from Seattle/ half an hour from Spokane you're probably in redneck territory
Can confirm. I grew up about 30 min from Seattle and was on the border of redneck territory. I played high school sports with schools out "in the country" and was able a 15 min drive from some ranches and whatnot.
WA is a very weird place.
Five minutes out the cities or cross the mountains to the east or go on the peninsula or drive south or north...
Puget Sound has population high density and mostly dominates the politics of the state.
My aunt lives in Sultan and all I can say is: yep.
the fucking turks
If that's the face he makes while he's fucking then I think he's doing it wrong
That's the face he makes when doing yo momma!
nice, real’ classy
Maybe he's the one getting fucked...
Cuz, for some reason, he folds it in half before inserting it
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks!
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam.
I feel like if an LLM spat this out every time the word "Turk" is mentioned they'd do a few more iterations before launch but in any comment thread on Reddit or Lemmy we get this wonderful reverse Turing test
I don't think many actual Turkish people would be offended by this.
Looks like Nasretin Hoca meets Sinbad. Then again, I see literally a "black beard" which is a slur I'm not going to translate here.
So this dude knows why Constantinople got the works?
Even though it's been a long time gone?
Yes, but he won't tell you because it's none of your business.
That's fucking badass
We had a boring enough mascot, but my highschool had separate black and white homecoming kings & queens... In 1998.
Pretty sure that was illegal at the time...
They're usually done as private parties with invites required and off campus. That way you can't sue the school.
https://observer.com/2019/05/prom-integration-dance-segregation-still-happens/
My small town's mascot was the Tigers. The next town to the north? Tigers. The town west of us? Their school shut down in 1997, but they were Tigers, too. The town south? Panthers. There is a town in the next county north that also is the Panthers.
Lots of big cats. No Cougars/Pumas/Mountain Lions, despite the fact that they're totally a native species. There was one town whose mascot was the Bobcats.
Big cats, wolves, eagles, and uncomfortable caricatures of people. Heaven forbid a school ever choose, like, a local frog or hedgehog or whatever for a mascot.
There’s also Catholic schools with crusaders which may be more concerning than the caricatures
My High School was not a sport high school. More or less all the cool kids were what would be considered the band nerds and arts took up half the foot print of the school.
We were originally officially the... Ahem... "Tillicums and Frontiersmen". Which most kids were only vaguely aware of. There were no mascots, our teams basically just used our town's name and sport was one of those things you like vaguely knew was happening. Nobody used the team names because we all thought it was stupid.
About 15 years ago the conversation developed that it was a pretty colonial name and not cool and they changed it around the same time three other schools in neighboring towns did theirs. All three towns seemingly independently (a student led conspiracy was suspected but never confirmed) all named their school teams "the (insert school name here) Storm".
So now there's just three teams all called Storm with zero mascots and people continue to not give a damn about sports... So I guess sometimes you get a theme?
My catholic school growing up was the Wildcats. Every catholic school seemed to be called the Wildcats. Then I found out the city's catholic high school has the Buttons as their mascot. The Central High School Buttons. San Antonio, TX.
Imagine if Turkish people really existed. Wouldn’t that be wild?
Nah, only Turkish delight exists.
Oh my god, I was born in Pekin, though I never spent any time there. That's fucking nuts
It's totarry clazy
Huh. lemmy.ml also censors links, it seems. This is what I see:
https://ccamuseum.org/1981-the-pekin-*removed*-high-school-team-becomes-the-pekin-dragons/
Are they young? Do they dress in suits and chase Cloud Strife?
Rival high school: the Greeks
Were you allowed to rock the Casbah?
Would be amazing if Their mascot was Hasanabi
This looks like fighting Turks. Fucking Turks would be different
...I think?
I dont get it, can someone ELI5?
ELI5: It's politically incorrect to use a group of people as a mascot.
ELIHypocrisy: This mostly gained momentum after an NFL team called the Redskins started getting flak for basically using what became a derogatory name for native americans as a mascot/team name. Pejoration is neat.
The pendulum kept swinging and it removed even non-derogatory names as mascots.
So what could be a different legitimate name used to represent being awesome and excelling on a team where you're supposed to win constantly started getting shut down. Think Chiefs, Blackhawks (switched to the bird not the people), but they keep the name because these are okay despite plenty of people being able to use almost any cultural group in a derogatory way.
I understand it, but it felt like the usual smart changes that went too far. I blame white people white knighting / virtue signalling too much.
RIP Mia from Land O Lakes butter. You can understand it, you don't have to like it. The opinion of the masses doesn't require logic, only momentum. Doesn't matter if the mascot was an accurate representation of someone, by those people, paid, generally loved, white folk will still kill it.
E: It's okay if they're primarily associated with white people or the in-group... or certain country people... not some white people though... or some people from certain countries... or some people from certain geological areas.
Americans, Texans, Yankees? Fine.
Irish, Canucks, Indians? You'll need context.
Turks, Sicilians, Confederates? Probably not fine since they're too brown or too American. Americans? That's fine though, even though Americans killed far more natives than Confederates ever did through systematic governmental genocide... Indians? Ok, Dot not feather Indians get that one now... turns out racism is pretty universal but it's okay if you're part of the in group. Don't emphasize what makes them unique or it's racist... New characterization requires that you don't emphasize what makes someone unique even if it's a point of pride or completely relevant to their people.
Does it matter if you name your team after yourselves? No. Still not fine. You have to first remove the name, wait a period, then give yourself the name back. It has to be allowed to marinate in PC limbo like colored people, african american, black, or people of color.
You have to know what arbitrary linguistic rules people decided are more correct despite them all attempting to describe the same thing. Like trying to approximate someone's skin color/genetic heritage and/or ethnicity.
People first language! Because it's better if X is first and not Y...despite describing the same thing and fuck you for not knowing any better by not being part of the In-Group!
Conclusion: People can try to logic their way through it all the way they want, but the ELI5 is the true part. They'll want exceptions for everything though as long as it's about yourselves... despite some people being forced to be those things against their will or having no to little ability to change where they we from or what professions they got into. Or that names and terms change meaning constantly and it's a futile attempt to give yourself an exception because it's all about you, not about others... even though it is lol.
So what is the problem? Is anon some kind of prod racist or what?
I may have graduated from this high school...
