pic: The Fighting Rednecks

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by jgannon

Karthik, John, et al, I'm not a PC cop by any means, but I think you're missing the point, and making a legitimate conversation into something ridiculous.

I would suggest that you're missing the point by inferring way too much meaning into a harmless joke. At no point was I speaking to the appropriateness of the team name "the fighting rednecks".

Originally Posted by ebarker

Where this runs off the rails for me is dragging all this Chief and wrangler stuff into the discussion.

For years a portrait of Chief Pontiac hung in GM dealerships, but no more. I'm not sure why but I always considered it a tribute to Chief Pontiac, not a racist insult.

Growing up in Canada, where we learn a significant amount of Aboriginal history in the younger grades, we were always taught that terms such as "chief" were completely inappropriate for colloquial use. I'm sure this is just another case of different people perceiving words differently. (Much like what we saw with the varied reactions to the use of the term redneck.)

Originally Posted by jgannon

I know you guys are just trolling about offending wranglers, dragons, or people named Fred, but it's really not that hard to tell the difference in the perceptions of "redneck" compared to those terms, and the potential fallout. There are plenty of other places on the Internet for that kind of nonsense.

Of course it's not hard to tell the difference between the perception of "redneck" vs. "Fred", hence the joke.

Anyways, I guess I need to head to one of those other places on the internet. Sorry to break up everyone's Kumbaya session.