{"id":120676,"date":"2021-02-08T10:04:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T15:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=120676"},"modified":"2021-02-08T10:12:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T15:12:44","slug":"aaarrrggghhh-washpost-writer-triggered-by-tampa-bay-team-name-buccaneers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aaarrrggghhh-washpost-writer-triggered-by-tampa-bay-team-name-buccaneers\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaarrrggghhh! WashPost Writer Triggered By Tampa Bay Team Name \u2018Buccaneers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faaarrrggghhh-washpost-writer-triggered-by-tampa-bay-team-name-buccaneers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=120676&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/bucs-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The word police are apparently running out of things about which to get offended.<\/p>\n<p>In a piece before the Super Bowl, Jamie L.H. Goodall, a staff historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History, penned a piece for The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2021\/02\/05\/buccaneers-embody-tampas-love-pirates-is-that-problem\/\">headlined<\/a> \u201cThe Buccaneers embody Tampa\u2019s love of pirates. Is that a problem?\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-el=\"text\">Goodall noted that when the National Football League expanded to 28 teams in 1973, \u201cthe league awarded Tampa an expansion team, prompting a name-the-team contest in 1975. \u2018Buccaneers\u2019 won, a reference to the pirates who frequented the coasts of Florida in the 17th and 18th centuries. But team executives wanted the logo to be a \u2018classy\u2019&nbsp;pirate \u2014 a cross between Robin Hood, Errol Flynn, the musketeer D\u2019Artagnan and pirate Jean Lafitte. It was a logo the team maintained until 1997 when they switched to a more aggressive, menacing&nbsp;Jolly Roger.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p data-el=\"text\"><em>Yet, while this celebration of piracy seems like innocent fun and pride in a local culture, there is danger in romanticizing ruthless cutthroats who created a crisis in world trade when they captured and plundered thousands of ships on Atlantic trade routes between the Americas, Africa and Great Britain. Why? Because it takes these murderous thieves who did terrible things \u2014 like locking women and children in a burning church \u2014 and makes them a symbol of freedom and adventure, erasing their wicked deeds from historical memory. These were men (and women) who willingly participated in murder, torture and the brutal enslavement of Africans and Indigenous peoples.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-el=\"text\">The writer then goes on to detail the lives of a few prominent pirates. But then she gets back to outrage.<\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\">\u201cSo why do we celebrate individuals who were the baddest of bad guys, those whom preacher Cotton Mather once called \u2018Common Enemies of Mankind?\u2019 Pirates were known murderers who pillaged, raped and plundered their way through the Caribbean. And they were well-known enslavers who dehumanized Africans and Indigenous people, selling them for profit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\">\u201cPerhaps time has dulled us to the atrocities committed by these 17th and 18th century outlaws. Or perhaps it\u2019s the fact that if pirates of the Golden Age were bloodthirsty, so too were the nations who opposed them. They willingly and purposefully massacred millions of African and Indigenous peoples in the name of colonization. Pirates, then, are seen as romantic heroes \u2014 the underdogs fighting the establishment \u2014 whom historian Marcus Rediker refers to as proto-democratic, egalitarian and multicultural.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\">In the end, Goodall suggested that\u2019s a \u201cproblem\u201d that residents of Tampa Bay need to deal with. \u201cShould we celebrate their complicated legacy? It\u2019s a question Tampa Bay has to contend with as we collectively contemplate other major sports mascots with dubious legacies, like their Super Bowl rivals in Kansas City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\">Oh, by the way, that team is the Kansas City Chiefs.<\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\">The targeting of \u201cbuccaneer\u201d comes after the word police went after Native American portrayals in sports. First they hit Major League Baseball, forcing the Cleveland Indians to bid farewell to their controversial cartoon mascot, Chief Wahoo, at the end of the 2018 season. Then they went after the team name Washington Redskins, who have now become \u201cthe Washington Football Team.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p data-el=\"text\"><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word police are apparently running out of things about which to get offended.In a piece before the Super Bowl, Jamie L.H. 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