The Playing Field

From Release the Hounds, blatant PC-nonsense from the NCAA:

The Irish are beneath contempt. Or so it seems, at least if you are the NCAA. The University of North Dakota has filed a lawsuit against the NCAA over the latter’s mandate that the school drop its team logo and nickname, “The Fighting Sioux”, or face sanctions and fines in post-season play. This is all part of a larger NCAA ban on American-Indian based nicknames and logos in postseason tournaments.

Why, you may ask? Because these nicknames are considered “hostile to Native Americans.” So, what do the Irish have to do with this? Well, there is a fairly well known college football team out of Indiana whose nickname is “The Fighting Irish” and last I heard the NCAA wasn’t particulary concerned over hostility towards our friends from the Emerald Isle.

Also, the unmentionable Asians: the minority you mentally insert into news articles that decry the obvious racism that keeps minorities from achieving in education. You have to mentally insert them -- you usually can't find a trace of them in the ink spilled writing about minorities. If only they'd stop being such high-achievers...