So by your logic no one with first hand experience would talk about important topics outside of their experience. Do you realize how utterly ignorant that is? If your goal is to further disenfranchise a particular group of people, this would be the way to go about it.

“I have been an Indians fan since age 5, in the 70's”

So your instinct is to blame the person who wrote the article (that you chose to read) about the logo for your team that you admit is bad and racist. How about instead of telling the writer to go fuck themselves next time you take a lap, don’t click the article, and generally calm the fuck down.

I mean, what did Ms. Adler expect the reaction of the Cleveland fans to be?

Right now, I am playing a violin so small you need an electron microscope to see it.

“It simply a matter of having proper knowledge and perspective.”

There’s certainly no point in calling you a racist, but your support of racist iconography and insistence that its intent is what matters just speaks volumes about your worldview.

Yeah, I hear you, the time to discuss racist logos is when no one is thinking about them

Wearing a Jose Fernandez shirsey right now, actually.

Let’s run with the equivalence you’ve created and not even question it.

Yeah. 2016 is “too soon” to call for getting rid of a racist logo.

Would this also be a bad time to point out that the future doesn’t look good for the Indians, and this may have been your only shot?*

*If you weren’t more concerned about your feelings about a sports team than racism, I genuinely would not have rubbed it…

combination of availability bias and negativity bias. If you dislike something, you notice it more when you see it. If you notice something more, you have a perception that it is more pervasive than it actually is. Happens all day erryday. For example: I hate the Nissan Juke. It’s the ugliest car to hit roads in…

In what way does calling for the removal of a logo you agree is racist cheapen or make more difficult the loss you are currently enduring?

You didn’t have to read it, you know. Just because you’re upset doesn’t mean she’s wrong. This is the perfect time to ditch Chief Wahoo. Your comment below about whether or not she knows any Native Americans personally shows the rest of us just who you are, whether you support the removal of Wahoo or not.

I imagine the type of guy to say stuff like that is also the type of guy who thinks woman with short hair=lesbian

Not only that. I find queer female same sex desire is often portrayed as predatory, perverse, dangerous, or otherwise depicted in an unflattering manner by the same shows that treat male same sex relationships as perfectly sweet and lovely and normal. Female same sex relationships are also often shown as ‘surprising’…

I went to Game One of the World Series. I’m a Cleveland fan (though just the Browns and Tribe, lucky me) who grew up elsewhere. I no longer wear Wahoo gear (I’m a fucking hero, I know), and am thinking of transitioning away from anything that says “Indians” too (I know, I know, the Nobel Prize is in the mail).

no, the term “SJW” was invented as a weak retort by assholes in a pathetic attempt to defend the indefensible.

In GLAAD’s case I assume that they are using it because it makes it easy to distinguish between male and female roles.

This one time, there was a huge possum sitting on my backyard fence, and I side-armed a tennis ball right at it and knocked it off. Pretty sure I had that same goofy grin on my face. That was my World Series.