Yes, I had decided to leave based on a couple of posts that have since been edited. After a few PMs with a couple of members I decided to take a read through to see if civility has been restored. It appears to be, let's hope it lasts!
Yes, for a while things were getting a little out-of-hand. Things have calmed down some since the one topic for Political Discussions were added. Hopefully that will keep the other discussions civil.
The Newhart show...boy that was a damn funny show back in its day! I wonder if we'll ever see shows again like Carol Burnett, All In The Family, etc. The answer? No, we won't. The current woke culture won't allow them. Glad I have a FireStick.
@vtgrad2003 I have to say we did enjoy The Big Bang Theory while it was on the air but there hasn't been much of anything else I would consider good comedy in a while. In fact, I can't name any comedy shows over the last 30 years that we watched consistently other than Cheers!, Home Improvement and Two and a Half Men - and we didn't always watch the later.
I just didn't like Friends or Seinfeld and never watched a full episode of Saturday Night Live.
Over the past two years, we have watched more on shows on BBC and Acorn TV and Netflix originals than regular broadcast channels of ABC, CBS and NBC.
The National Congress of American Indians, founded in 1944, is the oldest, largest and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organization serving the broad interests of tribal governments and communities.
The way I see it, did Indians have warriors? Yes. Did Indians have tomahawks? Yes. Did Indians have war cries? Yes.
Some in society just want to have some damn fun is all, but others want us to live in an androgynous, completely inoffensive, homogeneous culture...just think how boring that would be.
I really hate it when I have to agree with @vtgrad2003 but I think the modern day Native Americans are the originators of the "woke" society. I can understand it if the professional and college teams were using caricatures of Native Americans in order to make fun of them, but that is not the intentions of most teams. The Washington Redskins would be the one team I felt was insulting to Native Americans both with the name, logo and the entire culture in that dirtbag organization.
And for the record, I have full-blooded Native American great-grandmothers on both sides of my family tree. Two members of my father's family are also interred in a tribal burial ground.
I know that's intended to be sarcasm, lol, but there was no intention of insulting you in any way and I don't think that was @PappyJoe 's intention either. All you did was post a third party statement, nothing there to insult, frankly. I think we were responding to the general concept of how woke our society has or is trying to become, and that concept happens to come from one and only one political side...if you are on that side, so be it, but the statements we made were simply general statements and you know that.
You could be right, and you obviously know far more about native culture than I do, but from what I saw out in West Texas and what I see here in North Carolina, is that the different tribes seem to me at least, to be very heterogeneous, politically speaking. I know it seems the case that many will indeed probably be left-of-center, but that's a fairly broad spectrum, just like not all republicans can be called conservative.
I could be totally off here, but I see the Indian mascot and cultural appropriations controversy to be more driven by white people. I say that because I see the same thing with the BLM movement and the removal of historical objects. The entire movement seems to be focused on majority white campuses--for instance, you hardly hear anything at my own university which is an HBCU, but right up the road at UNC-Greensboro, it seems all the rage.
These groups do tend to use ethnicities as their 'badge' so to speak, but when you dig deeper, all the protests and burying of history, it seems to be mostly white people you see on camera. Am I wrong?
@vtgrad2003 - I think it really all depends on the different Native American Nations or tribes when it comes to being offended. I remember reading that when protests started against the Florida Seminoles for using that name, the protest started outside of the state of Florida. The Seminole tribe came out in support of Florida State and basically said the university had permission to use the name.
Richard Sneed, the principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, told the Associated Press he would like more of the focus on other things plaguing Native Americans, including poverty, unemployment, child abuse, sexual assaults and suicide.
"I’m not offended by somebody waving their arm at a sports game. I’m just not. If somebody is, that’s their prerogative, it’s their right. They can be offended. ... I don’t know very many — maybe one or two — from my tribe who say, ‘Yeah, I don’t like that.’ But at the end of the day, we’ve got bigger issues to deal with," Sneed said.
@opipeman When was I was a kid my parents didn't give me a thousand dollar cell phone to contact them in the event of an emergency ... they gave me a dime.
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I disagree: we have come very far.... but in the wrong direction.....
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Yes, I had decided to leave based on a couple of posts that have since been edited. After a few PMs with a couple of members I decided to take a read through to see if civility has been restored. It appears to be, let's hope it lasts!
Yes, for a while things were getting a little out-of-hand. Things have calmed down some since the one topic for Political Discussions were added. Hopefully that will keep the other discussions civil.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/peter-scolari-bosom-buddies-newhart-actor-dead
I have to say we did enjoy The Big Bang Theory while it was on the air but there hasn't been much of anything else I would consider good comedy in a while. In fact, I can't name any comedy shows over the last 30 years that we watched consistently other than Cheers!, Home Improvement and Two and a Half Men - and we didn't always watch the later.
I just didn't like Friends or Seinfeld and never watched a full episode of Saturday Night Live.
Over the past two years, we have watched more on shows on BBC and Acorn TV and Netflix originals than regular broadcast channels of ABC, CBS and NBC.
Now you know that logo is not politically correct and the Social Justice Warriors and Cancel Culture crowed and whining to get it changed.
Here, I fixed it for you...
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That's probably the funniest thing I've seen in a long long time!
CHOP ON!!!! or should I say TOAST ON!!!!
Some in society just want to have some damn fun is all, but others want us to live in an androgynous, completely inoffensive, homogeneous culture...just think how boring that would be.
And for the record, I have full-blooded Native American great-grandmothers on both sides of my family tree. Two members of my father's family are also interred in a tribal burial ground.
Deeply grateful......
You could be right, and you obviously know far more about native culture than I do, but from what I saw out in West Texas and what I see here in North Carolina, is that the different tribes seem to me at least, to be very heterogeneous, politically speaking. I know it seems the case that many will indeed probably be left-of-center, but that's a fairly broad spectrum, just like not all republicans can be called conservative.
I could be totally off here, but I see the Indian mascot and cultural appropriations controversy to be more driven by white people. I say that because I see the same thing with the BLM movement and the removal of historical objects. The entire movement seems to be focused on majority white campuses--for instance, you hardly hear anything at my own university which is an HBCU, but right up the road at UNC-Greensboro, it seems all the rage.
These groups do tend to use ethnicities as their 'badge' so to speak, but when you dig deeper, all the protests and burying of history, it seems to be mostly white people you see on camera. Am I wrong?
I was not attacking you.
@vtgrad2003 - I think it really all depends on the different Native American Nations or tribes when it comes to being offended. I remember reading that when protests started against the Florida Seminoles for using that name, the protest started outside of the state of Florida. The Seminole tribe came out in support of Florida State and basically said the university had permission to use the name.
I know.😃
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Differnt topic:
As to whether my thank you “….. was intended to be sarcasm.”
No, it was a reaction to what has occured whenever I’ve posted a different (libtard) point of view.
You just keep doing you.
And remember, if it doesn't affect your paycheck it's not worth worrying about.
And at 75, I ain’t gonna change.
"I’m not offended by somebody waving their arm at a sports game. I’m just not. If somebody is, that’s their prerogative, it’s their right. They can be offended. ... I don’t know very many — maybe one or two — from my tribe who say, ‘Yeah, I don’t like that.’ But at the end of the day, we’ve got bigger issues to deal with," Sneed said.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/trump-braves-tomahawk-chop-world-series-game-4
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/braves-astros-world-series-game-4
Go Braves! Chop on!
My folks didn't give me a dime. They gave me 5 empty soda bottles to get the 2 cent deposit.