{"id":2008194,"date":"2023-08-22T14:18:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T18:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-hate-the-minutemen-mascot-because-they-love-tyranny\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T14:24:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T18:24:07","slug":"leftists-hate-the-minutemen-mascot-because-they-love-tyranny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-hate-the-minutemen-mascot-because-they-love-tyranny\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftists despise the Minutemen mascot due to their affinity for tyranny."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fleftists-hate-the-minutemen-mascot-because-they-love-tyranny%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=2008194&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 class=\"article-content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leftist Activists and\u200d the Cultural Undoing<\/h2>\n<p>Leftist activists have \u2062had a heyday dutifully marching through\u200c America\u2019s beloved institutions, tearing down \u200dhistory and tradition. From\u200d NFL teams to high school mascots, from band names to street signs, it\u200c seems nothing \u2063is so sacred to escape the cultural undoing.<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 fight to rename the Washington \u2062Redskins\u200b \u2014 which\u200c became simply the\u2064 \u201cFootball Team\u201d (so original) for two years before landing on the \u201cCommanders\u201d moniker \u2014 was described at the time as a crusade for\u200d wokeness, and that\u200c was correct in \u200cpart. So<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-hate-the-minutemen-mascot-because-they-love-tyranny\/\" title=\"Leftists despise the Minutemen mascot due to their affinity for tyranny.\">-called social justice warriors love<\/a> \u2063to signal their virtue on all things \u2062racial and ethnic.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But \u2063more \u200bthan merely \u200chaving an affinity for wokeness, they love tyranny. If that weren\u2019t \u200bobvious before, it is now with their\u2064 latest target: the <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/concord-high-school-mascot-change-minutemen-bears\/13665894\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Minutemen \u2064mascot<\/a> of a California \u200dhigh school.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The board of the Bay Area\u2019s Mount Diablo Unified\u200d School District voted last \u200cweek to \u200bretire\u200d its \u201cMinutemen\u201d mascot in favor of a new mascot: the \u201cBears.\u201d The Minutemen aren\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/concord-high-school-pulling-minutemen-mascot-blasted-insult-sacrificed-defeat-tyranny.amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gender-inclusive<\/a>, some\u200b whined. Others \u200ctook \u200boffense at the mascot\u2063 holding a musket, making a fantastical mental\u2062 leap\u200d from muzzle-loaded colonial firearms\u200b to school shootings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time for new \u200cattitudes,\u201d said board member Linda \u200bMayo. \u2063\u201cAnd if changing a mascot will make students \u2062feel welcomed, embraced and empower[s] them to participate more at \u2063the school, then I will\u200c support this.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bigger Fish to Fry<\/h2>\n<p>Listen, Linda. \u2064Empowering students is\u2064 great, but \u2063the best way to do that is to educate and equip them \u2063for the real world \u2014 which \u200dcoincidentally\u2063 is\u2062 also \u200cthe primary purpose of schools. How ridiculous that any \u200cdistrict is\u2064 talking about mascots\u2063 at all when schools haven\u2019t even come close to\u2064 recovering from the massive learning \u2062losses suffered under\u200d Covid\u200c lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Last \u200byear in California, the\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-people-react-at-tucker-carlson-forum-with-2024-candidates-2\/\" title=\"People respond to Tucker Carlson's forum featuring 2024 candidates.\">home \u200cstate<\/a> of the Mount Diablo district, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2022-10-24\/california-test-scores-pandemic-drops#:~:text=Two%20out%20of%203%20California,struggling%20to%20meet%20grade%2Dlevel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2 in\u200d 3 students<\/a> couldn\u2019t meet basic state standards for \u200dmathematics, and more than half couldn\u2019t meet them for English. These numbers were even \u200bworse among nonwhite students, broadcasting the hypocrisy of the \u2063virtue-signaling ed heads.\u200d As the\u200c Los Angeles Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2022-10-24\/california-test-scores-pandemic-drops#:~:text=Two%20out%20of%203%20California,struggling%20to%20meet%20grade%2Dlevel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>,\u200d \u201c84% of \u200dBlack students\u2064 and 79% \u2062of Latino and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/calif-gov-newsom-announces-2b-plan-to-reopen-schools-by-spring\/\" title=\"Calif. Gov. Newsom announces B plan to reopen schools by spring\">low-income students<\/a> did \u2064not \u200dmeet state math standards in \u20622022.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats and teachers unions see poor\u200d outcomes like these and typically respond with chatter about the need for more \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aft.org\/column\/defense-public-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">investing<\/a>\u201d in public education, which is code for\u200d dumping more dollars into failing schools. It\u2019s one of the reasons they \u200clobby so hard against budding\u2062 school choice ventures. But oh, did \u200cI mention that the price tag of swapping out the Minutemen mascot is $200,000? It\u2019s \u2064hard\u200c to\u2063 take leftists\u2019 woke \u200dpandering and pleas for more tax dollars seriously when they spend them on a Bear costume rather than getting struggling black kids up\u2064 to speed.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How About Some Cultural \u200dAppreciation?<\/h2>\n<p>Something \u2064else doesn\u2019t add up here: Leftists get mad when a team\u2019s mascot is the \u201cChiefs\u201d or the \u201cRedskins\u201d\u200c or the\u2064 \u201cWarriors\u201d because \u2062they say you can\u2019t appropriate nonwhite culture. But now they\u2019re just as mad about the\u200d \u201cMinutemen\u201d \u2063\u2014 who were a bunch of white guys? You can\u2019t win with \u2062woke\u200d activists.\u2064 They live to be offended.<\/p>\n<p>In condemning everything as cultural appropriation,\u200b radical leftists fail \u200bto\u200d have any cultural <strong>appreciation<\/strong> \u2014 or, in the case of the latest\u2062 mascot, historical appreciation or literacy. Of course, Minutemen aren\u2019t \u201cgender-inclusive.\u201d They were <strong>men<\/strong>. Of course, they carried guns. They were a <strong>militia<\/strong>. But if you look \u2062closely, you\u2019ll see why\u200c the left really hates them: They\u200d existed to \u200bfight tyranny.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cultural Iconoclasm<\/h2>\n<p>These mascot massacres aren\u2019t occurring in a \u2062vacuum. They\u2019re animated by the same impulse that\u2019s motivated angry leftists to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/06\/23\/everywhere-statues-are-torn-down-by-the-mob-history-promises-people-are-next\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tear down historical monuments<\/a> over the past few years. Back in\u2063 2017, \u200da mob vandalized a statue of an unnamed Confederate soldier. It was controversial, but to\u200b many, it was understandable because of the sins \u2062of the Confederacy.<\/p>\n<p>But, of course, it was never \u2063going to stop there. There was no limiting principle. Soon the attackers came for Confederate officers and even Gen. Robert E. \u2064Lee, who, as Chris\u2062 Bedford <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/06\/23\/everywhere-statues-are-torn-down-by-the-mob-history-promises-people-are-next\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> in\u200b these pages, \u201cdied a \u2062nationally \u200brecognized champion \u2062of peaceful American reconciliation.\u201d The iconoclasts escalated to attacks on the World War II Memorial, commemorating Americans who fought real fascists, and religious imagery,\u2062 such as houses \u2064of worship and statues of\u2062 saints. Ultimately\u2062 they \u2062tore down a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/local\/wisconsin\/2020\/06\/24\/hans-christian-hegs-abolitionist-statue-toppled-madison-what-know\/3248692001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statue of an immigrant abolitionist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As with statues, so with mascots and other sources of community\u2064 and camaraderie. None are safe. In the culture \u2064war, leftists aren\u2019t content with one \u2063win.\u200c They\u2019ll \u2063never stop with the Redskins or Confederates; they\u2019ll always \u2064come for the\u2062 abolitionists and proverbial Minutemen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leftist activists relentlessly dismantle America&#8217;s cherished institutions, erasing history and tradition. No aspect is spared, from NFL teams to high school mascots, band names to street signs. Even the revered Washington Redskins faced a battle in 2020, ultimately becoming the &#8220;Football Team&#8221; in a cultural upheaval that knows no bounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":994,"featured_media":2008195,"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":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"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\/2008194","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\/994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2008195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}