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Go woke, go broke….

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by UFLawyer, Aug 18, 2023.

  1. UFLawyer

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    California High School going to spend nearly a quarter million dollars to change Concord High School mascot from “The Minutemen” to “The Bears” in order to be more inclusive.

    How do the idiots who voted for this get elected? Who woke up one day and said “Concord Minutemen…. That’s not inclusive, our children need help.” Oh, and then there’s that nasty musket thing.

    Can anyone here offer a genuine defense of this waste of money, or can we all just agree this crosses the line?



    Concord High School pulling 'Minutemen' mascot blasted as 'insult' to those who 'sacrificed to defeat tyranny'
     
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  2. Gatoragman

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    I agree with you but very few will. These injustices need to corrected!!!!
     
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  3. jhenderson251

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    Can anyone offer a genuine S#!* to give?
     
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  4. VAg8r1

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    Exactly. While the decision to change the name of the mascot borders on the absurd to most people it is completely irrelevant. The only ones who really care are a small number of culturally conservative snowflakes.
     
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  5. slocala

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    So local people want to run their lives according to their own values? What is wrong with that exactly? Seems to have little harm to anyone to move away from human mascots. Students themselves decided Bears.
     
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  6. cron78

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    And that’s a shame because the folks that have to pay the taxes to be spent with little or no ROI should be more fiscally conservative and raise hell about the money not being spent in a more sensible manner.
     
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  7. UFLawyer

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    Lol. This isn’t local people doing shit. This is three school board members spending taxpayer money because they’re moronic.
     
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  8. UFLawyer

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  9. ridgetop

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    I think it could be argued quite a few people cared enough to spend a chunk of money on the name change.
     
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    So only girls care about this? How mysogynistic of you!
     
  12. WC53

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    Still looking for a party that is not, it was all heritage vs name a gender.

    The fringes are always BSC. Like my neighborhood facebook group. Couple uber on each side. Thankfully the centrist few smack them down and they run and hide.

    Imagine if political parties could do this. Bbbut primaries.
     
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  13. channingcrowderhungry

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    Who went broke here?
     
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  14. WarDamnGator

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    TLDR summary: Some High School decided to change it's nickname from something mostly innocuous to something even more innocuous ... someone is snowflakin' over it.
     
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    Gonna cost every person in Concord $1.93. That'll break em.
     
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  16. WarDamnGator

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    Come to think of it, wouldn't it be illegal in Florida for female students to say they are "Minutemen"? That's the type of super-important woke gender confusing ideology that dear leader Desantis is fighting the brave battle against. OP should be praising this school for putting an end to this gender fluid indoctrination.
     
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  17. slocala

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    Swing and a miss.

    Mt Diablo School board is locally elected.

    “The Mt. Diablo Unified School District Board of Education is a policy-making body for the school district. The Governing Board is comprised of five trustees who are elected in November to serve staggered four-year terms in office and one Student Board Member who is appointed each school year according to Board Bylaw 9150.”

    About the Governing Board - Mt. Diablo Unified School District

    You must be thinking about Texas where Abbott takes state control from the locally elected school board.
     
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  18. ursidman

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    I can sorta see it from a geographic meaningful perspective. Minutemen is a Massachusetts thing while bears are important enough to California that one is prominently featured on their flag. And who cares if they make a change and why ?
     
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  19. mrhansduck

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    I was also curious when and why "minutemen" was chosen in the first place.
     
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    Patriots fight the wars to keep us free from ternary only for the gender neutrals/woksters to dictate behavior here at home? BS!!!
     
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