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<blockquote data-quote="ncurd" data-source="post: 1058940" data-attributes="member: 72205"><p>Its not rocket science (although apparently it might be a bit too hard for some people to grasp) anything is offensive if someone find its offensive. Not directing this at you.</p><p></p><p>The complicated factor is does that make everything offensive? Well yes evrything will offend everyone.</p><p></p><p>So lets ban everything! No lets actually take measured stock on the level of offence caused and the impact of removing that which causes offence.</p><p></p><p>Lets go for the bloody stupid shark attack example, a whole 10 people were killed by shark attacks globally last year. Even if they were offended by teams causing themselves the Sharks I think its fair to say the level of offence caused is not enough to worry about 10 people.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand with Native American imagery your talking about 2.9 million people in the USA and 1.6 million in Canada, there will be less because not every tribe ascribes to that imagery. We know the majority of them through polling data are offended by sports teams using that imagery. So I think we can safely say 2 million people are offended by sports teams doing this. Those involved in rugby have specifically called the Chiefs to stop using it. 20,000,000% more people are offended that those potentially by shark attacks. At which point its fair to start questioning whether the use of such imagery is fair as it clearly has an impact. Then we ask what difference does it make to the Chiefs to stop using such imagery and we realise the impact there is very little.</p><p></p><p>Going at another extreme end we wouldn't include imagery of the Holocaust as it would be clearly offensive. But a lesser genocide impacted upon Native Americans is fine because.....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ncurd, post: 1058940, member: 72205"] Its not rocket science (although apparently it might be a bit too hard for some people to grasp) anything is offensive if someone find its offensive. Not directing this at you. The complicated factor is does that make everything offensive? Well yes evrything will offend everyone. So lets ban everything! No lets actually take measured stock on the level of offence caused and the impact of removing that which causes offence. Lets go for the bloody stupid shark attack example, a whole 10 people were killed by shark attacks globally last year. Even if they were offended by teams causing themselves the Sharks I think its fair to say the level of offence caused is not enough to worry about 10 people. On the other hand with Native American imagery your talking about 2.9 million people in the USA and 1.6 million in Canada, there will be less because not every tribe ascribes to that imagery. We know the majority of them through polling data are offended by sports teams using that imagery. So I think we can safely say 2 million people are offended by sports teams doing this. Those involved in rugby have specifically called the Chiefs to stop using it. 20,000,000% more people are offended that those potentially by shark attacks. At which point its fair to start questioning whether the use of such imagery is fair as it clearly has an impact. Then we ask what difference does it make to the Chiefs to stop using such imagery and we realise the impact there is very little. Going at another extreme end we wouldn't include imagery of the Holocaust as it would be clearly offensive. But a lesser genocide impacted upon Native Americans is fine because..... [/QUOTE]
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