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Holy Cross Changing its Mascot Name...

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...because it might offend non-Christians.

Just a little background, Holy Cross is a private Catholic Jesuit Christian school. Now sure, I guess they can have whatever name they want, but the idea that a Christian school is going to do away with Christian symbolism because it might offense non-Christians is pretty far into the realm of the absurd.

But given the nuttiness on college campuses these days, nothing is really surprising. Its like all of these schools are now run but adolescent children.

Oh and anytime you hear one of these sanctimonious blow-hards talk about their "values," you can read that to mean their extreme liberal hard line ideology.

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Holy Cross Retires ‘Knight’ Mascot Due to Concerns Over Links to Christian Violence in the Crusades
by Dylan Gwinn19 Mar 20183,047

The College of the Holy Cross, will do away with its Knight mascot and all other imagery, to avoid any symbolic connection to Knights who fought for Christianity during the Crusades.

Reverend Phillip Burroughs, president of the Massachusetts based school, explained the decision in a letter to the student body. Burroughs wrote, “the visual depiction of a knight, in conjunction with the moniker Crusader, inevitably ties us directly to the reality of the religious wars and the violence of the Crusades.

“This imagery stands in contrast to our stated values. Over the coming months, the College will gradually phase out the use of all knight-related imagery.”

According to Fox News, “Students and faculty members unsuccessfully urged the school to drop the Crusaders name entirely, arguing it associates the school with the violence committed against non-Christians nearly 1,000 years ago. ”

During an appearance on Fox & Friends, Campus Reform Editor-in-Chief Lawrence Jones blasted the school’s decision. Citing it as yet another example of history being destroyed in the name of political correctness.

“The social justice warriors and the speech police are out to destroy history,” he said, asking where this all stops.

“Why not … just remove the ‘Cross’ from the name Holy Cross? That’s ultimately what the Crusaders were defending,” said Rachel Campos-Duffy.

http://www.breitbart.com/sports/2018/03 ... -crusades/
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PETA's lobbying aside, In your lifetime all pro and college mascots will be either animals- bears, tigers, lions or other mundane "clever" names like Jazz, Heat, etc. Any Indians, Vikings, Irish, Knights, Boilermakers, Hoosiers, etc. will be gone. Too "offensive" for cucks that believe in a fantasy land of rainbows and unicorns. We have become a soft, PC society in every aspect. Thank lawyers and feminine white males- often the same people, BTW.
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Why not just change the name of from Holy Cross to Holy Cucks :?:
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Major Kong wrote:Why not just change the name of from Holy Cross to Holy Cucks :?:
Haha.


Though it's fitting for a Catholic institution to separate itself from Christianity.
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UpstateSCHokie wrote:...because it might offend non-Christians.

Just a little background, Holy Cross is a private Catholic Jesuit Christian school. Now sure, I guess they can have whatever name they want, but the idea that a Christian school is going to do away with Christian symbolism because it might offense non-Christians is pretty far into the realm of the absurd.

But given the nuttiness on college campuses these days, nothing is really surprising. Its like all of these schools are now run but adolescent children.

Oh and anytime you hear one of these sanctimonious blow-hards talk about their "values," you can read that to mean their extreme liberal hard line ideology.

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Holy Cross Retires ‘Knight’ Mascot Due to Concerns Over Links to Christian Violence in the Crusades
by Dylan Gwinn19 Mar 20183,047

The College of the Holy Cross, will do away with its Knight mascot and all other imagery, to avoid any symbolic connection to Knights who fought for Christianity during the Crusades.

Reverend Phillip Burroughs, president of the Massachusetts based school, explained the decision in a letter to the student body. Burroughs wrote, “the visual depiction of a knight, in conjunction with the moniker Crusader, inevitably ties us directly to the reality of the religious wars and the violence of the Crusades.

“This imagery stands in contrast to our stated values. Over the coming months, the College will gradually phase out the use of all knight-related imagery.”

According to Fox News, “Students and faculty members unsuccessfully urged the school to drop the Crusaders name entirely, arguing it associates the school with the violence committed against non-Christians nearly 1,000 years ago. ”

During an appearance on Fox & Friends, Campus Reform Editor-in-Chief Lawrence Jones blasted the school’s decision. Citing it as yet another example of history being destroyed in the name of political correctness.

“The social justice warriors and the speech police are out to destroy history,” he said, asking where this all stops.

“Why not … just remove the ‘Cross’ from the name Holy Cross? That’s ultimately what the Crusaders were defending,” said Rachel Campos-Duffy.

http://www.breitbart.com/sports/2018/03 ... -crusades/
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