Scholarship table
Any chance that after beating a cancer charity team in the finals last season, they partnered with Susan G Konen and this is connected to their ultimate warrior campaign?
Golden Warriors?
So does this mean Benjamin Martin in the Patriot, was an anti semite all along?!
Clearly, Joe Chapman and Dan Fitzgerald are racists.
Or they're dorky wrestling fans
I'm not really outraged, I'm more just puzzled. It seems like it's a odd choice in today's day and age given everyone's (perceived/real?) hypersensitivity. It was easily foreseeable that the name and logo would provoke at least some semblance of this reaction... and the choice to go forward with it anyway suggests to me either:1. They did not conduct due diligence in this branding endeavor, which is... well, a pretty cavalier choice, or2. They did conduct due diligence and either didn't care what reaction it would provoke (again, a pretty cavalier choice) or did not imagine anyone would care (which seems hard to imagine considering that all anyone yammering about these days seems to be "cancel culture")Whatever, a dead wrestler I never watched and would not know existed were it not for his moment in the spotlight a few years ago for being a racist is the inspiration for the name. Sure, fine. I can separate the jackwagon from the TBT team branding. To the extent that I care at all, I care that this branding courted backlash and causes them to have to deal with all this noise.
If you have outrage at the Ultimate Warriors name and logo shouldn't you have that same outrage towards the Marquette Warriors name and logo?Seems like a double standard to say how awful the Ultimate Warriors are yet wear Marquette Warriors t-shirts.
It should be noted that the guys running this team all have full time jobs. They've given way more to MU, #mubb fans and TBT than the $83,000 they've received. It's a part time, summer fun thing. I'm pretty sure some of the players are just big wrestling fans and wanted to do something "cool" and it meshed with MU's hoops past.
Interesting to see that people will get outraged that the Marquette team puts a patch on their uniform stating that Black Lives Matter, but hate on “cancel culture” when there’s backlash from the alumni team taking the name and logo of a racist homophobe.
I suspect this is the case as well.Will be interesting to see where they go from here. No matter whether you believe this is hugely inappropriate or you believe it is no big deal, it is sure to cause a lot of noise that detracts from their accomplishments and distracts from this year's team.
but (and I get that I was one of the people to point out the connection) is it though?Like, outside of the corner of Extremely Online fandom, is either the Ultimate Warrior's name, likeness, or personal history even known a bit? If it weren't for a little bruhaha I read while bored at work several years ago, I would have seen the name as a callback to the pre-Golden Eagles name and Mexican Luchador type masks and that's it. So, what I mean to say is: Is it entirely possible that outside of the animated few who are predisposed to hear from each other will anyone even realize there's an issue here?
It's only cancel culture when someone or something they like is being cancelled.