Should go harder IMHO. This ad from the National Congress of American Indians does a good job.
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Yeah the only issue here is "Caucasians" is roughly similar in emotional weight to "native Americans."
Shirt should say like, "crackers" or something
Cracker doesn't even have enough contextual weight. Whitey is about as heavy as I can think of and even that doesn't carry much weight for the people it should.
Source: I'm literally whiter than Casper the friendly ghost, and I actually care. The Americans I'm talking about just don't care.
"Whipcrackers," even
The issue is a lot of people would completely fail to get the message and want to buy all three hats.
I'm all for it. I want the mascot to be just a normal guy named "Steve." It's just some white guy in a cardigan. His catch phrase is "Hi, I'm Steve, nice to meet you."
When the players score a touchdown, the fans all chant "Hi, I'm Steve." The customary celebration is for the player to mime a normal handshake.
Nah it gotta be dave. Everyone knows Dave
Steve is the funnier name though.
How bout Dave Stevenson that way we have both
What kind of rapper name is steve
Hey whats up im Steve.
My favorite team is still the Cincinnati Cracker-Asses
I am okay with the rebranded Honky-tonks too.
Whiteskins seems like a more appropriate name
Shouldn’t the shirt say “Red Necks” or anything more offensive?
I read that a more apt metaphore would be a shirt that says Paleface, with a skinny white dude on it. Cause this shirt actually goes hard.
I see 'paleface' more as a response to something morbidly shocking versus ID'ing a group of people. Similar, if the original were 'redface,' it would be being uncontrollably angry.
Wouldn't swapping in white to have whiteskins, fit better?
"red necks" is usually referring to a specific lot of folk, whereas the original context (of what this is poking at) "referred" of an entire group of people, so saying "caucasians" is more 1:1.
Wasn't the team name basically a slur? Wouldn't something like "crackers" be a better fit?
"the west end crackers"
They would gather a following all to fast
I can't speak for all of Caucasia but I'm not offended.
I will speak to my fellow caucasians and say, "if you're offended, lighten the fuck up, honky."
He got it wrong though. The shirt should says "CRACKERS".
Cracker isn’t an epithet that native Americans have ever used though.
Paleface would be the matching slur to redskin.
Only sport that team would play is disk golf
I'm in this comment, and yea I'm ok with that and the post
Field hockey, golf, and polo
Is it racist for me a white guy to wear this?
I'd be worried people wouldn't get the joke and think I was some sort of Nazi.
Yeah, that was my thought too.
There are dumb right wingers who would wear it "see theres nothing offensive about this" as opposed to "See how fucking weird this is"
Can we do this? I want this team. It's gotta be full of burly black guys though. They're clearly better at football. I would start watching football.
That guy (and likely his entire extended family) gets it.
Why is caucasian used to refer to the white race, isnt that for georgians or something?
Misrepresenting the target group is just an added bonus. It's like referring to all indigenous people as "indians" - even if they were from India (which they're not), it's just taking a blanket term and making them all seem like they're the same. At least that's why it's even funnier in this context.
But generally speaking, when people unironically use the term to refer to all whites, well, that just shows that they don't really understand the meaning of the term they are using.
Hell yeah brother got one in a large long?
Fair trade
To be a fair response, it really should be "paleface" or something. I'd even accept honkey.