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<blockquote data-quote="Curly Calhoun" data-source="post: 942772" data-attributes="member: 10752"><p>More Purple Karma on the way?:</p><p></p><p><strong><em>Is the Viking next to go? WWU eyes ditching Viking mascot due to colonialism</em></strong></p><p></p><p><em>‘Names idolizing conquest [are] out of line with the university’s contemporary values around honoring local Indigenous communities’</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Western Washington University may scrap its Viking mascot and is currently conducting an investigation to help make a final decision on the issue.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The effort was spawned in part from requests asking the public university to remove the names of four buildings on campus due to racism concerns: Huxley College of the Environment, Mathes Hall, Haggard Hall, and the Viking Union.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>In December, trustees announced that T.H. Huxley’s name would be <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/western-washington-university-to-strike-t-h-huxleys-name-from-environmental-college/" target="_blank">removed</a>, citing the scientist’s “white supremacist values that dehumanize and harm many members of the Western community.” The Haggard and Mathes names were <a href="https://westerntoday.wwu.edu/news/board-of-trustees-votes-to-remove-the-huxley-name-from-the-college-of-the-environment" target="_blank">spared</a>.</em></p><p></p><p></p><p>Complete text: <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/is-the-viking-next-to-go-wwu-eyes-ditching-viking-mascot-due-to-colonialism/" target="_blank">https://www.thecollegefix.com/is-the-viking-next-to-go-wwu-eyes-ditching-viking-mascot-due-to-colonialism/</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>So, if the name "Viking" is deemed unfit at the college level, how long before the ever-image-conscious NFL begins to consider the same thing at their level?</p><p></p><p>It's a PC, "woke" world...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Curly Calhoun, post: 942772, member: 10752"] More Purple Karma on the way?: [B][I]Is the Viking next to go? WWU eyes ditching Viking mascot due to colonialism[/I][/B] [I]‘Names idolizing conquest [are] out of line with the university’s contemporary values around honoring local Indigenous communities’ Western Washington University may scrap its Viking mascot and is currently conducting an investigation to help make a final decision on the issue. The effort was spawned in part from requests asking the public university to remove the names of four buildings on campus due to racism concerns: Huxley College of the Environment, Mathes Hall, Haggard Hall, and the Viking Union. In December, trustees announced that T.H. Huxley’s name would be [URL='https://www.thecollegefix.com/western-washington-university-to-strike-t-h-huxleys-name-from-environmental-college/']removed[/URL], citing the scientist’s “white supremacist values that dehumanize and harm many members of the Western community.” The Haggard and Mathes names were [URL='https://westerntoday.wwu.edu/news/board-of-trustees-votes-to-remove-the-huxley-name-from-the-college-of-the-environment']spared[/URL].[/I] Complete text: [URL]https://www.thecollegefix.com/is-the-viking-next-to-go-wwu-eyes-ditching-viking-mascot-due-to-colonialism/[/URL] So, if the name "Viking" is deemed unfit at the college level, how long before the ever-image-conscious NFL begins to consider the same thing at their level? It's a PC, "woke" world... [/QUOTE]
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