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...editors: “No Sense in Anti-Mascot Crusade” by Jonathan J. Lehman ’08 is symptomatic of a narrow mind. What this column fails to recognize is that many mascot names are generally acceptable because they reinforce positive cultural stereotypes (e.g., Minutemen, Colonials) or challenge non-negative cultural stereotypes (e.g., Fighting Quakers). On the other hand, most mascot names that refer to Native Americans reinforce negative cultural stereotypes: the Redskins (harking back to the notion that all Native Americans have red skin), the Fighting Sioux (reminding us that even until the 1950s, American children...
...legacies of stereotypes and really portray native peoples in caricatures. It’s part of an American myth that we need to rectify.” Kind of like how George Washington’s mascot portrays colonial people in caricature and UMass promulgates the myth of the Minutemen? Where’s the rectification brigade on that...
...able to take the ‘minuteman’ name and really it was a revival,” said Tim Bueler, MP’s spokesman. “He said that we are middle-class men and we are protecting our countrymen just like the minutemen did. I think he encompasses what the minutemen were and what they are today...
...Professor of History Walter Johnson noted, interpretations of the historical character of the minutemen have frequently tended to be illusory...
Supporters of the original minutemen refused to take political stances...