this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2023
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Shirts That Go Hard

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[–] mulcahey@lemmy.world 65 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Should go harder IMHO. This ad from the National Congress of American Indians does a good job.

[–] SCB@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Yeah the only issue here is "Caucasians" is roughly similar in emotional weight to "native Americans."

Shirt should say like, "crackers" or something

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] match@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago

"Whipcrackers," even

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[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The issue is a lot of people would completely fail to get the message and want to buy all three hats.

[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Thranduil@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Nah it gotta be dave. Everyone knows Dave

[–] aulin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Steve is the funnier name though.

[–] Thranduil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

How bout Dave Stevenson that way we have both

[–] Deuces@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

What kind of rapper name is steve

[–] DagonPie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Hey whats up im Steve.

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[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My favorite team is still the Cincinnati Cracker-Asses

[–] Dusktracer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I am okay with the rebranded Honky-tonks too.

[–] Apprehensive@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago

Whiteskins seems like a more appropriate name

[–] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Shouldn’t the shirt say “Red Necks” or anything more offensive?

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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?

[–] isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"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.

[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Wasn't the team name basically a slur? Wouldn't something like "crackers" be a better fit?

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[–] jaxxed@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They would gather a following all to fast

[–] SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 years ago (35 children)

I can't speak for all of Caucasia but I'm not offended.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

I will speak to my fellow caucasians and say, "if you're offended, lighten the fuck up, honky."

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago (7 children)

He got it wrong though. The shirt should says "CRACKERS".

[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Cracker isn’t an epithet that native Americans have ever used though.

Paleface would be the matching slur to redskin.

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[–] BrazenSigilos@ttrpg.network 12 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Only sport that team would play is disk golf

[–] SnuffleUpagus40@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I'm in this comment, and yea I'm ok with that and the post

[–] Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Field hockey, golf, and polo

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[–] Stunning@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is it racist for me a white guy to wear this?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd be worried people wouldn't get the joke and think I was some sort of Nazi.

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

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"

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

That guy (and likely his entire extended family) gets it.

[–] sarmale@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Hell yeah brother got one in a large long?

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wanted to support the team, but they're so damn unathletic.

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[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

To be a fair response, it really should be "paleface" or something. I'd even accept honkey.

[–] Thedogspaw@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What league does this team play in

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