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17 May 2012, 7:27 pm

http://www.kptv.com/story/18506684/oreg ... in-schools

This will affect my school, since we're the Scappoose Indians. I honestly think this is bull sh*t and there is nothing wrong with this.


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17 May 2012, 7:44 pm

The litigious PC police have to have their way.


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18 May 2012, 12:27 am

Crap I am banned in Oregon!


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18 May 2012, 12:36 am

Also "Orejon" was the spanish name for the local tribe of Native Americans in the Northwest because of their big ear onaments from which the state of Oregon recieved its name.

Soooo what is Oregon going to do to comply with its own mandate? hmmmm?

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18 May 2012, 12:58 am

Make up fictitious groups that happen to resemble Indians! :P


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18 May 2012, 1:17 am

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Make up fictitious groups that happen to resemble Indians! :P


hmm well considering Orejon is a fictitious name for a real group...they may escape through a hidden loophole depending on how broadly it is enforced. So should the state of Oregon withold all state funding to the state of Oregon if its name is not changed to Jeremy in 5 years??

The irony is killing me.


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18 May 2012, 2:02 pm

Maybe a school can call themselves Indians and their mascot be the Taj Mahal?


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18 May 2012, 6:12 pm

Seriously. This is really ironic.

We're going to revert to the "Moose" in 2017, so the mascot will remain for our school until then.


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18 May 2012, 7:43 pm

I have to disagree here... Imagine if a team was named "the blacks", or "the jews"... But "the indians" is ok? Why?



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18 May 2012, 7:47 pm

scubasteve wrote:
I have to disagree here... Imagine if a team was named "the blacks", or "the jews"... But "the indians" is ok? Why?


Because the blacks and the jews where not killed off and had their land taken from them but the Indians btw I am cherokee where slaughtered like pigs I never find indian mascots offensive.



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18 May 2012, 7:53 pm

I think it's a bunch of PC bullsh*t.

I remember my freshman year of high school where they wanted to ban 'confederate' flags. That lasted for about a week. In reality, what is commonly known as the 'confederate' flag is actually the flag of the Army of Tennessee. But I doubt anyone knew that.

Now, just so we're clear, I'm not going to debate the civil war, etc.



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18 May 2012, 8:02 pm

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I think it's a bunch of PC bullsh*t.

I remember my freshman year of high school where they wanted to ban 'confederate' flags. That lasted for about a week. In reality, what is commonly known as the 'confederate' flag is actually the flag of the Army of Tennessee. But I doubt anyone knew that.

Now, just so we're clear, I'm not going to debate the civil war, etc.


I knew that about the confederate army.



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18 May 2012, 9:56 pm

Joker wrote:
Because the blacks and the jews where not killed off and had their land taken from them...


:? You might want to check your facts on that one...



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18 May 2012, 10:12 pm

scubasteve wrote:
Joker wrote:
Because the blacks and the jews where not killed off and had their land taken from them...


:? You might want to check your facts on that one...


The black where taken from their land Jews still fight to keep theirs us Natives had it taken from us my facts are right.



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18 May 2012, 10:15 pm

Will it ever come down to white people caring that their are sports teams with names like Celtics, Fighting Irish, Vikings, Spartans, Trojans, etc?


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18 May 2012, 10:17 pm

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Will it ever come down to white people caring that their are sports teams with names like Celtics, Fighting Irish, Vikings, Spartans, Trojans, etc?


I don't think whites care about sport teams with those names.