{"id":2212888,"date":"2024-04-04T10:28:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T14:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-whine-about-utah-royals-america-first-jerseys-stadium\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T10:28:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T14:28:40","slug":"leftists-whine-about-utah-royals-america-first-jerseys-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-whine-about-utah-royals-america-first-jerseys-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Left-wing critics complain about Utah Royals&#8217; &#8216;America First&#8217; jerseys and stadium"},"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-whine-about-utah-royals-america-first-jerseys-stadium%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=2212888&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--><p>The Utah Royals, a women\u2019s professional soccer club in Salt Lake City, faced criticism for their jerseys and stadium linked \u2063to \u2064sponsor America First Credit\u200c Union. Debate arises as leftists argue that the \u2064term\u2063 \u201cAmerica \u2063First\u201d carries negative connotations of fascism and \u200cracism. The credit union&#8217;s history and the club&#8217;s naming \u200cdecisions have \u2064stirred \u200bdiverse reactions. The Utah Royals, a women\u2019s professional soccer club based in Salt Lake \u200dCity, stirred controversy due to their association with sponsor America First Credit \u2062Union. Critics,\u2062 particularly from the left, view the term \u201cAmerica First\u201d as having links \u2063to\u200b fascism and racism. The club&#8217;s naming choices, reflecting the credit \u2062union&#8217;s history, \u200chave sparked a range of reactions from different quarters.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Utah Royals, a women\u2019s professional soccer club based in Salt Lake City, faced criticism for their jerseys and stadium, which are named after their sponsor \u2014 America First Credit Union, from leftists who claim the term \u201cAmerica First\u201d is rooted in \u201cfascism\u201d and \u201cracism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The credit union, founded in 1939 as the Fort Douglas Civilian Employees Credit Union, changed its name to the Federal Employees Credit Union in 1947 after it moved to Ogden, Utah, then changed it again in 1984 to the America First Credit Union, Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/salt-lake-city\/2024\/04\/03\/utah-royals-jersey-sponsor-backlash-racist-america-first-credit-union?utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_campaign=editorial\">noted<\/a>. In 2022, Rio Tinto Stadium, the home stadium for the Royals, was renamed America First Field.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe \u2018America\u2019 in our name denotes our connection to our founding members \u2014 civilian federal employees who worked at the American military bases and defense depots in Utah,\u201d a representative for America First Credit Union explained. \u201cThose early members\u2019 deep and abiding sense of service and patriotism is something that continues to be felt within our membership to this day,\u201d adding that \u201cfirst\u201d referred to \u201cputting the financial needs of their members at the forefront.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIn a March 30 statement, two supporter groups for the Washington Spirit and D.C. United said the company\u2019s defense of their name \u2018ignores the complex and hateful history of the name and the ongoing effects of American nationalism and white supremacy that \u2018America First\u2019 expresses,\u2019\u201d Axios reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">After an account claiming to represent supporters of the North Carolina Courage posted on X, \u201cWe must weigh in on the jersey controversy. While we support all the Utah players and their fans, we can\u2019t stand by without mentioning the front of jersey sponsor, America First Credit Union, of our opponent \u2014 the Royals. The phrase \u2018America First\u2019 has a long history rooted in racism, fascism, and hateful ideology,\u201d Utah governor Spencer Cox responded by posting, \u201cJust when you think this website can\u2019t get any more ridiculous. (I had to double check if this was a parody account\u2026sadly it is not).\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As we approach the Courage&#8217;s match against Utah Royals FC this Friday, we must weigh in on the jersey controversy. While we support all the Utah players and their fans, we can\u2019t stand by without mentioning the front of jersey sponsor, America First Credit Union, of our opponent \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0NopYIZuYS\">pic.twitter.com\/0NopYIZuYS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Uproar (@UproarNC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UproarNC\/status\/1771175009282662479?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just when you think this website can\u2019t get any more ridiculous. (I had to double check if this was a parody account\u2026sadly it is not) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8W8tp3h65X\">https:\/\/t.co\/8W8tp3h65X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Spencer Cox (@SpencerJCox) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpencerJCox\/status\/1771262898343465193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Former President Trump first outlined his \u201cAmerica First\u201d perspective as a presidential candidate in <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/4309786\/read-donald-trumps-america-first-foreign-policy-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 2016<\/a>, when he stated, \u201cAmerica first will be the major and overriding theme of my administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cOur foreign policy is a complete and total disaster. No vision. No purpose. No direction. No strategy,\u201d he stated. \u201cOur friends are beginning to think they can\u2019t depend on us. We\u2019ve had a president who dislikes our friends and bows to our enemies, something that we\u2019ve never seen before in the history of our country.\u00a0\u2026 Israel, our great friend and the one true democracy in the Middle East has been snubbed and criticized by an administration that lacks moral clarity. Just a few days ago, Vice President Biden again criticized Israel, a force for justice and peace \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">He slammed President Obama, declaring, \u201cHe has even allowed China to steal government secrets with cyber attacks and engaged in industrial espionage against the United States and its companies. We\u2019ve let our rivals and challengers think they can get away with anything, and they do.\u201d<\/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=1712245447014000&#038;usg=AOvVaw259gdy9LGyeAJghxwMwQqU\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe world is most peaceful and most prosperous when America is strongest. America will continue and continue forever to play the role of peacemaker. We will always help save lives and indeed humanity itself, but to play the role, we must make America strong again,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salt Lake City&#8217;s women&#8217;s soccer club, the Utah Royals, received backlash from leftists for branding their jerseys and stadium after sponsor America First Credit Union. Critics argue that the term &#8220;America First&#8221; carries connotations of fascism and racism. Founded in 1939 as Fort Douglas Credit Union, America First has sparked controversy with its naming choice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2212889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2128386243.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2212888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2128386243.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212888","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2212889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}