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I’d like to have tracking skills.  To go along with my nunchuck skills and my hacking skills…

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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On another note of something being called racist involving indians, the University of Illinois mascot has been banned from the Final Four.  The mascot is an indian chief.  I have never understood why indians as mascots are racist.

Chad, yeah, I get the intent of the cartoon… (and honestly don’t know enough about the case to comment on the validity of its point).  What I don’t get is what about it is racist or offensive to American Indians.

Heh.  Good.  As you’ve seen in the case of just about anything that shows one person’s race or religious affinity other than a white Christian, it can be turned into being racist.  Sadly, everything from a cartoon showing the Green Giant being racist against tall, green people to a cartoon of a candy bar being discriminatory against diabetics is considered racist.

The point being made in the cartoon was that the school had plenty of indication that something was wrong with this student.  He’d been in trouble before.

Also, I heard on the radio that a poll done in the school before this incident showed that 25% of the boys in the school and 45% of the girls (or some numbers along those lines) had thought of killing themselves.  Now I’m not one to put a lot of faith into these polls of students (I think a lot of the kids fool with them or just fill in answers to get them done) but clearly those numbers, which are way out of line with other schools, indicate that something was/is going on there.

But then, there are major problems on most of this country’s Indian reservations.

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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I don’t get it… do they think it implies that all American Indians are Nazis?  Is it bad to make reference to the American Indian’s traditional tracking skills?

I don’t see it as racist either, but then again I do not view many things as being racist. 

Mark, I believe the point was to show that all the signs were there and being ignored, something in which I do not believe was the case.

Heh… using a brave Indian leader as a mascot is racist, but Notre Dame portraying the Irish as pugnacious diminutive leprechauns is just fine.

Man, get over yourself.

What about the New England Patriots?  Back during the Revolutionary War, there were not exactly too many non-white people who fought.

If you don’t see the macabre humor (and insightfulness) of the cartoon, you’re spending way too much time dumbing-down the definition of ‘offensive’.

Regards…

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