The Guardians statues in Cleveland that their baseball team is now named after look Caucasian to me. So he could be pointing at a Cleveland Guardians Jersey and it’s essentially the same things.
There’s also the Cavaliers, Celtics, the Fighting Irish, Canadiens, and many others in sports. The Fighting Irish seems to be perpetuating a negative stereotype. But none of these will be changed.
Then there’s also names of groups like Pirates which could include other ethnicities but the logo shows a white person. There are many ethnicities that were pirates throughout history, but the Pittsburgh Pirate log shows a white guy.
So that photo may not be as shocking or offensive as you think it would be. If there were a team called the Caucasians it wouldn’t actually offend anyone. Well I could foresee white supremacists taking a liking to a logo like that and that would be offensive. But not because of the logo itself but white supremacists ruining everything they associate themselves with. Kinda like Swastika was ruined as symbol.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against renaming sports teams and changing the labels on products and things like that. Just pointing out that the ultimate outcome is going to be a distinct lack diversity in these logos because the things that have white people representing it aren’t changed but things that have non-white people are changed. People will still be cheering for the Celtics in the future. People in Cleveland will cheer for the Guardians (white people) and the Cavaliers (also white people) but they won’t be cheering for Indians (because that’s disrespectful). I guess if that’s what we want it to be it’s fine, but seems a little weird that sports fans will only ever be cheering for white people in the future.
It’s kinda weird that soon there will be only white people on products and on the jerseys of sports teams.
Are we sure that we’re happy about this outcome?
I’d root for them
!shirtsthatgohard@lemmy.world
The Guardians statues in Cleveland that their baseball team is now named after look Caucasian to me. So he could be pointing at a Cleveland Guardians Jersey and it’s essentially the same things.
There’s also the Cavaliers, Celtics, the Fighting Irish, Canadiens, and many others in sports. The Fighting Irish seems to be perpetuating a negative stereotype. But none of these will be changed.
Then there’s also names of groups like Pirates which could include other ethnicities but the logo shows a white person. There are many ethnicities that were pirates throughout history, but the Pittsburgh Pirate log shows a white guy.
So that photo may not be as shocking or offensive as you think it would be. If there were a team called the Caucasians it wouldn’t actually offend anyone. Well I could foresee white supremacists taking a liking to a logo like that and that would be offensive. But not because of the logo itself but white supremacists ruining everything they associate themselves with. Kinda like Swastika was ruined as symbol.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against renaming sports teams and changing the labels on products and things like that. Just pointing out that the ultimate outcome is going to be a distinct lack diversity in these logos because the things that have white people representing it aren’t changed but things that have non-white people are changed. People will still be cheering for the Celtics in the future. People in Cleveland will cheer for the Guardians (white people) and the Cavaliers (also white people) but they won’t be cheering for Indians (because that’s disrespectful). I guess if that’s what we want it to be it’s fine, but seems a little weird that sports fans will only ever be cheering for white people in the future.