re: It's time to ban the name "Rebels."

Social justice warriors usually avoid the burbs

If you want to berate me for sharing the opinions of the vast majority of our fanbase idk what to tell you. It sounds like to me that you were too smart to go to Ole Miss and your talents would have more appreciated elsewhere.

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If you want to berate me for sharing the opinions of the vast majority of our fanbase idk what to tell you.

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You just said it yourself. You are closed-minded and have no consideration of anyone else's feelings but your own. But again, we've already established that you are of the majority opinion in Mississippi. Just like the state flag vote and voting for Obama, the majority must mean your opinion is correct, right?

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It sounds like to me that you were too smart to go to Ole Miss and your talents would have more appreciated elsewhere.

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You are finally making some sense.

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Please tell me more about the plantations that owned slaves in Nevada.

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They are called the Running Rebels because many confederate soldiers fled there to avoid surrendering to Union forces. At least know the history before spouting off like a dumbass.

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They are called the Running Rebels because many confederate soldiers fled there to avoid surrendering to Union forces. At least know the history before spouting off like a dumbass.

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Really? Because this article from the Las Vegas Sun in 2008 says otherwise, jackwagon.

"Hey Reb, the hat-wearing, square-chinned, mustachioed mascot, isn’t a rebel of the Confederacy. UNLV cut ties with its Old South symbolism in the 1970s, after students protested its racist connotations.

Before that, however, UNLV drew liberally on the symbols of the Confederacy. The original mascot was Beauregard, a cartoon wolf clad in a Confederate gray military jacket and cap. The student government — now the Consolidated Students of the University of Nevada — was originally the Confederated Students of the University of Nevada. And, for a time, the football team’s helmets were emblazoned with a Rebel flag.

To understand why UNLV students cast themselves as rebels, it helps to understand the civil war being waged in state politics when Southern Nevada’s university was founded, in 1957. The school, which began as a “branch” of the University of Nevada, in Reno, had to fight the political power of the north to become autonomous.

“Although UNLV dropped its Confederate mascot, the school’s colors and the Rebel nickname endured,” wrote UNLV history professor Eugene Moehring in “The University of Nevada, Las Vegas: A History.” “After all, ‘rebel’ stood for much more than a supporter of the Civil War against the Union ... Most of all, in Southern Nevada it stood for those who had opposed northern domination in the state Legislature and unwanted dependency upon Reno.”

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Well, they were rebels and it is Dixie. If your hearts not in it, get your...

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Shut up, Gump.

Well that sort of kills your argument. What happened to sensitivity?

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Let the students vote on it and stand by the decision. A real honest vote with all options on the table, not like the mascot vote joke.

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Well if the school administration allowed a real vote to decide things we would still have the Colonel (97% were for the colonel IIRC). SO they aren't gonna be doing none of that.

frick you