Re: Chief Illiniwek\'s Last Dance
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Wow, I was really expecting this to go the other way. I've never heard anyone actually defend the chief. I didn't go there, but I had a few friends who did. It seemed like everyone thought of him as an embarrassing sort of minstrel show.
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I go there and no one I know thinks of Chief like that (although I'm sure the super liberal PC people do)
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BTW, the Fighting Irish comparison really doesn't hold. Notre Dame was founded by Catholics, many of them Irish. And I've never heard anyone find it offensive.
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you can't see how a drunken irish guy as mascot could be seen offensive? (they also aren't a minority)
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