{"id":1937883,"date":"2023-05-25T11:16:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T15:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-washington-university-unveils-new-nickname-after-complaints-of-extremely-offensive-moniker\/"},"modified":"2023-05-25T11:19:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T15:19:06","slug":"george-washington-university-unveils-new-nickname-after-complaints-of-extremely-offensive-moniker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-washington-university-unveils-new-nickname-after-complaints-of-extremely-offensive-moniker\/","title":{"rendered":"GWU reveals new nickname due to offensive old one."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fgeorge-washington-university-unveils-new-nickname-after-complaints-of-extremely-offensive-moniker%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=1937883&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--><h2>George Washington University Changes Mascot Name to &#8220;Revolutionaries&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">George Washington University, located in Washington, D.C., has announced that it will be changing its mascot name from &#8220;Colonials&#8221; to &#8220;Revolutionaries&#8221; after students complained that the former was offensive. The term &#8220;Colonials&#8221; was chosen in 1926 and referenced those who fought for independence from the British from 1775-1783. However, more than 500 students submitted a petition in 2018 linking the school&#8217;s mascot to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maryland-school-district-announces-policy-to-push-anti-racist-thinking-in-preschool-redefine-discrimination-and-racism\/\" title=\"Maryland School District Announces Policy to Push \u2018Anti-Racist Thinking\u2019 In Preschool, Redefine \u2018Discrimination\u2019 and \u2018Racism\u2019\">systemic oppression<\/a>.&#8221; After months of debate and more than 47,000 responses, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/free-speech-group-squashes-universitys-bias-reporting-system-in-court\/\" title=\"Free Speech Group Squashes University\u2019s Bias Reporting System In Court\">university settled<\/a> on the new name. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Exciting Day for the George Washington University Revolutionaries<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mark Wrighton, the president of the school, said, &#8220;This is an exciting day for the George Washington University Revolutionaries. I am very grateful for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-sen-marco-rubio-if-you-hate-america-biden-wants-to-cut-a-deal-with-you\/\" title=\"Exclusive \u2014 Sen. Marco Rubio: \u2018If You Hate America,\u2019 Biden Wants to \u2018Cut a Deal With You\u2019\">active engagement<\/a> of our community throughout the development of the new moniker. This process was truly driven by our students, faculty, staff, and alumni, and the result is a moniker that broadly reflects our community\u2014and our distinguished and distinguishable GW spirit.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other names floated as replacements included Ambassadors, Blue Fog, and Sentinels. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-washington-university-unveils-new-nickname-after-complaints-of-extremely-offensive-moniker\/\" title=\"GWU reveals new nickname due to offensive old one.\">announcement video featuring school alumnus<\/a> and NBC host Chuck Todd focused on the school&#8217;s commitment to making change around the world. &#8220;We are a truly global community, shaping the future of the world every day. We are always pushing, always learning. We are excited by new people, new experiences, new ideas, and new ways of thinking. We are in the center of power where our energy and drive fuels Washington, D.C., and beyond. We are dedicated to changing the world for the better,&#8221; a narrator said in the video, which featured footage of Vice President Kamala Harris at the university.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Push for Change<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The push to change the name began in 2018 when more than 500 students submitted a petition linking the school&#8217;s mascot to &#8220;systemic oppression.&#8221; &#8220;The use of &#8216;Colonials,&#8217; no matter how innocent the intention, is received as extremely offensive by not only students of the University, but the nation and world at large. The historically, negatively-charged figure of Colonials has too deep a connection to colonization and glorifies the act of systemic oppression,&#8221; the students said.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Join the Revolution<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">George Washington University was chartered in 1821 by Congress. Join the Revolutionaries and be a part of shaping the future of the world!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1684938422021000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2-zHdFAayHoZkU-_PcCeh4\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Washington University is changing its nickname from &#8220;Colonials&#8221; to &#8220;Revolutionaries&#8221; due to complaints from students that the former was offensive. The university, located in Washington, D.C., made the decision after months of debate and criticism. The term &#8220;Colonials&#8221; was deemed &#8220;extremely offensive&#8221; to the &#8220;nation and world at large.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1937884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[27610,22500,8010,5537,5114],"class_list":["post-1937883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-gwu","tag-nickname","tag-offensive","tag-one","tag-reveals"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1937884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}