Super Bowl Pick - The PC Way
The PC look at Super Bowl LIV - by Lance
This years super bowl may present a challenge to pick your team. The PC way is always to root against the team you like the least. So let's have a look at the competition.
The Kansas City Chiefs - On the surface this would be an easy one not to like. The Chiefs were once a finalist for a positive community impact award but last year the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation refused to consider them because of their "racist mascot." Michael Friedman, a clinical psychologist, claimed it was an issue of public health and not political correctness. Of course we have to ignore that the team was named after a former mayor of KC known as "The Chief" by locals. It can also be traced from his roots in scouting as the founder of the Tribe of Mic-O-Say, a leadership enhancement program.
But dressing up in native garb and doing things like the Arrowhead Chop are considered "harrassment and bullying" and don't meet proper standards. Another writer says the problem with the chop isn't about political correctness but human dignity. Clearly a horse named Warpaint and and the Arrowhead chop make the Chiefs worthy to root against.
But, the San Franciso Fourty-Niners - I doubt many folks even know the roots of the 49ers. As with all history we must now examine the sins of our forefathers. California State University removed the statue of Prospector Pete from campus recently. How can we dispute the fact that those prospectors enslaved the natives, forced them to convert their religion and introduced syphilis. Even the city of San Francisco, as progressive as it is, is named after Saint Francis of Assisi. After all he is associated with the Catholic Church. Stanford recently changed the name of the Juniper Serra building because he was Catholic and created the mission system that "pervasively mistreated and abused California Native Americans."
What a dilemma. I would have to say the continued transgressions of a football team called the Chiefs and their sins against human dignity outweighs the error of the ways of those prospectors and early settlers in California as they didn't really know better. So, GO NINERS.
This years super bowl may present a challenge to pick your team. The PC way is always to root against the team you like the least. So let's have a look at the competition.
The Kansas City Chiefs - On the surface this would be an easy one not to like. The Chiefs were once a finalist for a positive community impact award but last year the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation refused to consider them because of their "racist mascot." Michael Friedman, a clinical psychologist, claimed it was an issue of public health and not political correctness. Of course we have to ignore that the team was named after a former mayor of KC known as "The Chief" by locals. It can also be traced from his roots in scouting as the founder of the Tribe of Mic-O-Say, a leadership enhancement program.
But dressing up in native garb and doing things like the Arrowhead Chop are considered "harrassment and bullying" and don't meet proper standards. Another writer says the problem with the chop isn't about political correctness but human dignity. Clearly a horse named Warpaint and and the Arrowhead chop make the Chiefs worthy to root against.
But, the San Franciso Fourty-Niners - I doubt many folks even know the roots of the 49ers. As with all history we must now examine the sins of our forefathers. California State University removed the statue of Prospector Pete from campus recently. How can we dispute the fact that those prospectors enslaved the natives, forced them to convert their religion and introduced syphilis. Even the city of San Francisco, as progressive as it is, is named after Saint Francis of Assisi. After all he is associated with the Catholic Church. Stanford recently changed the name of the Juniper Serra building because he was Catholic and created the mission system that "pervasively mistreated and abused California Native Americans."
What a dilemma. I would have to say the continued transgressions of a football team called the Chiefs and their sins against human dignity outweighs the error of the ways of those prospectors and early settlers in California as they didn't really know better. So, GO NINERS.
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