“Hey, let’s murder a bunch of people who live here because they’re culturally inferior to us and look funny.”
“Oh, but we loved their fighting spirit, sense of nobility and exotic nature, so let’s name our sports team invoking the things we secretly admired about them, so people think we are noble, have a fighting spirit and are exotic, too!”
Cultural appropriation at its finest:
“Hey, let’s murder a bunch of people who live here because they’re culturally inferior to us and look funny.”
“Oh, but we loved their fighting spirit, sense of nobility and exotic nature, so let’s name our sports team invoking the things we secretly admired about them, so people think we are noble, have a fighting spirit and are exotic, too!”
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