Meanwhile, Nike's stock price has increased more than 25% since making the deal with Colin Kaepernick in early Sept 2018. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NKE/
Remember the boycott?
Meanwhile, the cat fan is wringing his paws and groaning that he is now a victim of this. Or he could be licking his balls and purring over it. I guess it depends on how he looks at this particular victimization. Maybe he'll let us know.
Meanwhile, the cat fan is wringing his paws and groaning that he is now a victim of this. Or he could be licking his balls and purring over it. I guess it depends on how he looks at this particular victimization. Maybe he'll let us know.
I found her/his mama. Karen has been a busy girl lately, and she's rotten at parking.
Pretty cool story about Band Aid now making bandages in various shades of darker colors. I expect it will take about a week or ten days for right wing nutjobs like the cat pan to somehow perceive this as making them victims. It never fails. https://www.yahoo.com/news/band-aid-rec ... 11452.html
OK, so I'm all in favour of not honouring those who led armies against the US and also not having statues of other vanquished "heroes" such as Hirohito or Dietl in the town square parks. I'm also in favour of reducing the use of terms, names, etc. that would appear to sustain racial discrimination or stereotyping. I think it was a good idea to change the name of Dead Nigger Creek in Texas, although the replacement, "Dead Negro Draw", isn't much better. Swastika, Ontario, might want to eventually adopt a change, even though they had the name before the Germans did. I'm happy to refer to people by whatever collective name they prefer, African American, Black, First Nation, Indigenous People, whatever.
But eventually, it all gets a bit much. I saw an article where as part of the effort to remove racist names, terminology, yada, that somebody wants the University of Texas to drop their fight song "The Eyes of Texas." I wondered why, and looked up the lyrics. Didn't find anything that would seem offensive, unless you consider "Texas" to be a name of a person stalking somebody. Apparently the issue isn't actually the "Eyes of Texas" but the tune which was also used, among other songs, for "I've Been Working on the Railroad." OK, so what? Seems the song was sometimes used by minstrels and sometimes used with alternate verses written in dialect. And, apparently, "Dinah" (which isn't in the Texas song), was a generic name for a Black, sometimes slave woman.
There are a lot of instances of racism that need addressing. Seems some of the nit-picking could come after everything else is fixed. Reminds me of a co-worker I had for a while who was somewhat into Numerology. She didn't take it well, but I did mention to her that "666" may refer to the Devil sometimes, but sometimes it's just the number following "665."
In theory, sure, but not every whine will be accommodated. So far, I have not seen changes that I think are extreme.
No, I guess not - at least for actual changes made. But none of it is "revisionist history" either. Stopping the honour of traitors is not revising history, although it could be argued that denying they were traitors may be.
But here's an example of what is "revisionist history":
For 30ish years, the Nascar championship was the "Winston Cup" as the major sponsor was RJ Reynolds and its Winston cigarette brand. Then a decade or so after cigarettes started to be less socially acceptable, they changed sponsors first to Nextel (the "Nextel Cup), then Sprint, then Monster Energy.
Nothing wrong with that. But when they refer to a driver having won the championship in the past, they say "Billybob was the Monster Cup champion in 1998 and 1999." Nope. Billybody was the Winston Cup champion in those years. I'm sure it has to do with the outrageous relationship Nascar has with its sponsors, but it's wrong wrong wrong.
Exactly, the whole nobility of the "Lost Cause" myth was revisionism. So far, we're just tossing the slavers and traitors back in the cesspool where they belong.
... But here's an example of what is "revisionist history":
For 30ish years, the Nascar championship was the "Winston Cup" as the major sponsor was RJ Reynolds and its Winston cigarette brand. Then a decade or so after cigarettes started to be less socially acceptable, they changed sponsors first to Nextel (the "Nextel Cup), then Sprint, then Monster Energy.
Nothing wrong with that. But when they refer to a driver having won the championship in the past, they say "Billybob was the Monster Cup champion in 1998 and 1999." Nope. Billybody was the Winston Cup champion in those years. I'm sure it has to do with the outrageous relationship Nascar has with its sponsors, but it's wrong wrong wrong.
I suspect that you're correct that it's a contractual thing and that Monster paid extra for the rights. Or, perhaps it was just to prevent confusion, rather than a sign of caving in to PC. Skimming this Wiki article I didn't notice any discussion of renaming past Cups, or any controversy from doing so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASCAR_Cup_Series
You would think that Winston and Nextel would have sued if they could have. Maybe they got paid off, or the original contract specified that they only owned the name for the years paid for. Anyhow, it will now be known simply as the NASCAR Cup Series. Problem solved . . . except for nostalgia purists like you.
I think they should have kept the name "Winston Cup" and claimed it was named for George Winston. Or Winston Churchill, or just made up. They never got another sponsor whose name really fit that well. "Sprint Cup" was especially egregious since there is an entirely other and different racing series named "Sprint Series" that races homemade-looking road warrior contraptions around a dirt track.
Related story - I knew (though not closely) the guy who ran marketing at RJ Reynolds and got them involved in Nascar. Got fired for it for spending too much money. Then he ran marketing at Hanes and created the L'Eggs brand that was a huge success. Got fired again, anyway. Then he went to Wranger and started sponsor relationships with Earnhardt in Nascar, Gary Player in golf, and top or rising people in F1 and the pro rodeo circuit. Got fired anyway. Married and unmarried a couple of "Miss Winstons" along the way. Left marketing and took up serious bird watching.
I think they should have kept the name "Winston Cup" and claimed it was named for George Winston. Or Winston Churchill, or just made up. They never got another sponsor whose name really fit that well. "Sprint Cup" was especially egregious since there is an entirely other and different racing series named "Sprint Series" that races homemade-looking road warrior contraptions around a dirt track.
Related story - I knew (though not closely) the guy who ran marketing at RJ Reynolds and got them involved in Nascar. Got fired for it for spending too much money. Then he ran marketing at Hanes and created the L'Eggs brand that was a huge success. Got fired again, anyway. Then he went to Wranger and started sponsor relationships with Earnhardt in Nascar, Gary Player in golf, and top or rising people in F1 and the pro rodeo circuit. Got fired anyway. Married and unmarried a couple of "Miss Winstons" along the way. Left marketing and took up serious bird watching.
I think NASCAR should disband and slink away in shame. When I was a kid, I used to keep track of it, watch it on tv, but in spite of the fact that Bristol is in the same county I grew up in, I've never been to a race there. But back then, the NASCAR cars were pretty much the same cars you could go down and buy right off the lot. Not so today. If they're gonna keep up this farce, I think there should be no rules; any team can do whatever they want to their engine, can use any engine, all drivers can use any drugs they want, and each driver must go the oppostie way after each lap. Unless they adopt those rules, I will never watch it again.
You aren't the first to offer such ummm, "creative" suggestions. The cars they run now are an issue with a lot of fans, but really, it's been a long long time since they actually raced what came from the factory. Late 60's I'd guess. Somewhere around the 70's they started racing a standard frame with a version of factory sheet metal hung on it. But the engines were at least really from each manufacturer, although the "Chevy", "Pontiac", "Buick" were all the same GM engine. Eventually they all became the same, with different decals on the front. Thus the sport lost half of its appeal - the brand loyalty part where "win on Sunday, sell on Monday" meant something and the guy driving his Ford on the street could cheer his favourite Ford drivers. The other half was the driver personality part, which has largely gone away as every driver now has a script where he says "We drove hard all day in the (sponsor) (car make), and the crew worked hard to keep us in the front. I'm just so happy for (list of sponsor names), and g'bless 'murica." Or some variation. What do fans like? When occasionally one of the drivers says, "the guy can't drive for shit and he ran me into the fuckin' wall. His ass will be in the wall next week." But then the driver who says that gets fined or suspended or something else and has to get back up and say "Sorry (sponsor name list).
... “A white couple calls the police on me, a person of color, for stenciling a #BLM chalk message on my own front retaining wall. ‘Karen’ lies and says she knows that I don’t live in my own house, because she knows the person who lives here. #blacklivesmatter,” the man shared on Twitter....
Busted, Karen.
... The video was uploaded to Twitter where sleuths identified the woman as Lisa Alexander, CEO of LaFace Skincare, which was once featured in Birchbox (the brand immediately cut ties with Alexander upon hearing this story). Apparently, Alexander tried to defend herself on social media but quickly deleted all her profiles, including the Facebook profile for her skincare company, which was flooded with negative reviews.
... This isn’t just about “being a Karen.” We continue to see how fatal a 911 call can be for a BIPOC in America and yet these entitled people like the woman in the video continue to flaunt their privilege and their racism with zero regard for how it may end. Enough of this. Stop being Karens.
Note: BIPOC = Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. New one to me, and I'm unclear on the distinctions.
... “A white couple calls the police on me, a person of color, for stenciling a #BLM chalk message on my own front retaining wall. ‘Karen’ lies and says she knows that I don’t live in my own house, because she knows the person who lives here. #blacklivesmatter,” the man shared on Twitter....
Busted, Karen.
... The video was uploaded to Twitter where sleuths identified the woman as Lisa Alexander, CEO of LaFace Skincare, which was once featured in Birchbox (the brand immediately cut ties with Alexander upon hearing this story). Apparently, Alexander tried to defend herself on social media but quickly deleted all her profiles, including the Facebook profile for her skincare company, which was flooded with negative reviews.
... This isn’t just about “being a Karen.” We continue to see how fatal a 911 call can be for a BIPOC in America and yet these entitled people like the woman in the video continue to flaunt their privilege and their racism with zero regard for how it may end. Enough of this. Stop being Karens.
Note: BIPOC = Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. New one to me, and I'm unclear on the distinctions.
Freakin creepy bitch. Her life is ruined in three minutes.
Bye bye Karen.
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Freakin creepy bitch. Her life is ruined in three minutes.
Bye bye Karen.
I wanted to see if LaFace Skincare has any Black models or products for Blacks, but lafaceskincare.com is a dead website and I think their NSAbook page has also been shutdown. She may have also harmed a bunch of investors and employees.
Prediction: Homeowners across San Francisco will stencil "Black Lives Matter" on their property. Some may even go with "Black Lives Matter, Karen (or Lisa)".
Anybody want to explain the difference in "people of colour" and "coloured people"?
I've never been comfortable with the former and have never used the latter. Wiki describes the origins and intent of POC, along with its distinction from "colored people", which came to be a pejorative exclusively for blacks, as billy.pilgrim says.
There's also criticism, which includes yours. As much as possible I try to use the preferred terminology of the group being discussed. Seems polite and it's no skin off my 'absence of color' nose.
It is an interesting question, though - what would be an appropriate, respectful, and inclusive collective name. I use "African-American" as the currently preferred term, but it's awkward and not necessarily accurate even though everybody ultimately came from Africa. The actual equivalent of "caucasian" is the disgraced term "negroid" and no longer acceptable or possible for rehab. We need a word that includes cultural differences that may be based on race, and isn't so dependent on skin colour. Maybe we should offer everyone the opportunity to state their personal descriptor, like asking for their preferred pronoun. "Hi, my name is Joaquin; my pronoun is "he" and my personal descriptor is "bi-racial."
