Pot-addled hillbilly screwed now that baseball season is over

Well, I guess it's not over if you're an Indians fan.

Speaking of which, did you hear about the Canadian do-gooders who went to court to prevent MLB using the term "Indians" and the Chief Wahoo logo?

They lost. Cleveland's MLB team are still the Indians, and their mascot is still that fake Indian chief.

I was surprised at the loss. MLB must have sent some pretty high-powered pinch-hitting lawyers up here to make that happen.

I get the point of the do-gooders; that buck-toothed Indian chief is derogatory in every way.

Here's my problem.

Native Canadians have had the dirty end of the stick for about 400 years.

When the do-gooders score a symbolic victory like getting the Cleveland Indians to change their name or drop their mascot, a lot of well-meaning people figure, hey, the work is done!

These symbolic victories take the pressure off governments to do anything meaningful.

So the Cleveland MLB team changes their name, they get a new mascot, and everything is happy happy except that the vast majority of North American native people still live in sub-standard housing, still have sub-standard health care and education, and still have incarceration rates and suicide rates that should make every social justice warrior blush.

But nobody sees that shit anymore because, hey looky here!... what a great symbolic victory we just won over Chief Wahoo and the dominant white racist culture.

Sure...

Anyway, for a Toronto sports fan I guess we've got the Leafs to look forward to...

And those Blackhawks.

Political Correctitude alive and well in Canada

Couple of stories caught my eye today that made me say getthefuckouttahere. I was sitting in the public library at the time, so of course I said that under my breath, but after I got back in the woods here at hillbilly central I just had to holler it out...

GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE!!!

Here's the story of Maj. Gen Mike Rouleau's court martial.

Here's the story behind his court martial; he was reloading his weapon when it misfired. Nobody got hurt.

That's cause for a fucking court martial?

Get the fuck outta here!

Here's the other one.

Seems that Ontario's Human Right's Commish Renu Mendhane has implored the Blue Jays and MLB to refrain from referring to Cleveland's NLB team as the "Indians," because that's disrespectful to Indians. You, know, the actual Indians who used to own this continent.

Not those other Indians who invented curry and whose restaurants we now favour.

I kinda in a way almost see the point. Here's the problem; you get to make some trite symbolic gesture, and that gives you a free pass to do fuck all about the real issues for the next year, next five years, next generation...

The real issues are, in no particular order:

• the housing crisis in native communities
• the education crisis in native communities
• the employment crisis in native communities
• the health care crisis in native communities
• the clean-water crisis in native communities

And that's just scratching the surface. Not calling the Cleveland Indians the Cleveland Indians is going to make what difference to any of these crises?

None. Zip. Nada.

It'll make the feel-good crowd feel good that they "accomplished" something.

Get the fuck outta here!