1814 Fuck Sportsball, but this team would be my #1 (pic8.co) 🇺🇸🎖️ MEME ARMY 🎖️🇺🇸 posted 93 days ago by 1350XX 93 days ago by 1350XX +1817 / -3 115 comments share 115 comments share save hide report block hide child comments Comments (115) sorted by: top new old worst You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread. ▲ 77 ▼ – Spezcuck 77 points 93 days ago +77 / -0 shoulda been palefaces permalink save report block reply ▲ 23 ▼ – theReallyRealRJ 23 points 93 days ago +24 / -1 Right! It’s gotta be an equivalent offensive term. I was thinking “crackers”, but that’s not quite right. Palefaces is much better! “I’d buy that for a dollar!” permalink parent save report block reply ▲ 16 ▼ – themedallion 16 points 93 days ago +16 / -0 Atlanta pede here. At one time we had a baseball team, The Atlanta Crackers. permalink parent save report block reply ▲ 3 ▼ – BurgerChef90 3 points 93 days ago +3 / -0 Indianapolis had a team called that too. And I'm pretty sure both were in the Negro Baseball League. So I guess it's okay to have a racist name for white people on a Negro League team, but you can't have a perfectly fine Indian nickname for a Major League Team now? permalink parent save report block reply ▲ 11 ▼ – Nice_n_tangy 11 points 93 days ago +11 / -0 Crackers were originally a specific ethnic group- Scotch-Irish. They were poor and looked down on, which is why it became a slur. permalink parent save report block reply ▲ 10 ▼ – TheDon1 10 points 93 days ago +10 / -0 Green Bay Crackers. permalink parent save report block reply ▲ 8 ▼ – ag3ntdr1g01 8 points 93 days ago +8 / -0 Goes good with those Wisconsin cheese heads. permalink parent save report block reply ▲ 4 ▼ – deleted 4 points 93 days ago +4 / -0 ▲ 1 ▼ – deleted 1 point 93 days ago +1 / -0
shoulda been palefaces
Right! It’s gotta be an equivalent offensive term.
I was thinking “crackers”, but that’s not quite right. Palefaces is much better! “I’d buy that for a dollar!”
Atlanta pede here. At one time we had a baseball team, The Atlanta Crackers.
Indianapolis had a team called that too.
And I'm pretty sure both were in the Negro Baseball League. So I guess it's okay to have a racist name for white people on a Negro League team, but you can't have a perfectly fine Indian nickname for a Major League Team now?
Crackers were originally a specific ethnic group- Scotch-Irish. They were poor and looked down on, which is why it became a slur.
Green Bay Crackers.
Goes good with those Wisconsin cheese heads.