The Thread of Cancellation

[Psy-Fi]

Captain Underpants: Children's book withdrawn over 'passive racism'

[jwb]

The book, titled The Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung-Fu Cavemen from the Future, was first published in 2010.

sounds hilarious. Now I wanna read this book.

I'm starting to think these people are self cancelling as a marketing strategy tbh

[jwb]

Also I wanna say so far my favorite result of cancel culture is the redskins having to change their name and refusing to come up with a new one so now we have the Washington Football Team

[Ol’ Qwerty Bastard]

America's obsession with having secondary team names is stupid anyway.

I would much rather a name like Washington Football Team over something dumb like the Cleveland Browns.

It's hilarious to me that nobody ever thought to just refer to them as Washington though. I laugh every time a commentator says "the Football Team."

[jwb]

Yeah but that's how american pro sports works... It's not just about the location an the sport it's about the merchandise, mascots etc.

It's all just an outlet for tribalism so ironically enough a name like the seminoles for example is actually pretty apt

Most people don't see it on that deeper level they just see the sport... In which case you have two new York Football teams, two new York basketball teams etc. If you a new yorker what makes you pick one over the other?

[Ol’ Qwerty Bastard]

I feel like there are a lot of reasons other than one team having a different name that leads to people liking a team.

I agree with the tribalism point but doesn't that essentially just reduce it to "I cheer for team x because my father/mother/friend etc. also does?" At least in most cases I would think so.

Either way I just think the team names are often corny and don't even coincide well with the area they're based in.

[SGR]

Originally Posted by elphenor

I did laugh pretty hard when I heard this

I think everyone was in agreement that "Redskins" was cringe and announcers probably felt weird saying it

I mean could you imagine that flying with any other group

They were the Redskins so long that it wasn't weird at all for the announcers to say it. There's been multiple moments throughout last season where announcers mistakenly still referred to them as the Redskins or stuttered and tripped over words in a moment of awkwardness as they tried not to refer to them as the Redskins.

[The Batlord]

They should make their name the Washington Trail of Tears to piss off literally everyone.

[jwb]

Originally Posted by Ol’ Qwerty Bastard

I feel like there are a lot of reasons other than one team having a different name that leads to people liking a team.

I agree with the tribalism point but doesn't that essentially just reduce it to "I cheer for team x because my father/mother/friend etc. also does?" At least in most cases I would think so.

Either way I just think the team names are often corny and don't even coincide well with the area they're based in.

they're often corny which you can them use as ammo to trigger their fans

By making fun of their ****ty name or dumb mascot or gay jerseys

You gotta look on the bright side of things

Asking why name teams is like asking why countries have flags or why knights and families had insignias

It all goes back to the tribalism like I said. It's just an added flair. If you've ever seen a really lit college sports game you know what I'm talking about. All the colors and banners and mascots get people into a sorta mob mentality.

[Raime]

Originally Posted by elphenor

Lil Nas X cancelled by the right after they were singing along to "Old Town Road"

I wouldn't know anything else about the guy, that song is a real crime against humanity though, in that it makes me wish to be deaf

if anything cancel him for that goddamn

He's being too non-white and non-straight. Satan in music isn't exactly new, and there are far more anti-christian musicians out there. Why don't they go after Varg or someone like that? The man is a murderer who destroyed hundreds of years worth of Christian history.