So is The Auburn mascot racist too? How about Mizzou? Clemson? Exc.

we're gonna eat a dolphin

Clemson's mascot is a druggie not a racist.

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So is The Auburn mascot racist too?

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A good rule of thumb to live by these days: Everything is racist.

Football is racist

No dummy. It's the 'fighting tigers' that those dickless sjws are crying about

Can we please just shoot all left wing liberals? Put them out of their misery? They aren't happy unless they're bitching about something.

While the term "Louisiana Tigers" was originally used only by Wheat's Battalion, it was eventually applied to all CSA troops from Louisiana. Hence, "Louisiana Tigers" is indeed a title with links to the WBTS and Louisiana troops.

"The origin of the term came from the "Tiger Rifles," a volunteer company raised in the New Orleans area as part of Major Chatham Roberdeau Wheat's 1st Special Battalion, Louisiana Volunteer Infantry (2nd Louisiana Battalion). "A large number of the men were foreign-born, particularly Irish Americans, many from the city's wharves and docks. Many men had previous military experience in local militia units or as filibusters. They (and the regiments that later became known as the Tigers) were organized and trained at Camp Moore.

"One disgusted observer proclaimed that many of Wheat’s recruits were “the lowest scum of the lower Mississippi...adventurous wharf rats, thieves, and outcasts...and bad characters generally."

Nothing much has changed about New Orleans...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Tigers.

Missouri WBTS troops nicknames had no links to the name "tigers." The Missouri troops were apparently sometimes nicknamed "the Owls." This is thought to have been a disparaging reference by other southern troops. "Taken by the owls" was a period expression referring to troops who deserted their command in the middle of the night.

Auburn "pussycats" nickname also had no links to the WBTS. Auburn adopted the "War Eagle" from ... get this ... a damn-yankee regiment, the 8th Wisconsin who burned and pillaged their way through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Never understood why the Aubs did that except maybe to emphasize that Tuscaloosa and the U. of Alabama was burned by the Yankees and Auburn probably welcomed them.

"March 26, 1881), a bald eagle, was the mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the American Civil War. Later, his image was adopted as the eagle appearing on a globe in Case Corporation's logo and as the screaming eagle on the insignia of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Abe

Here we go again

Nah, Auburn is good. They have an Eagle and some Plainsmen to fall back on so they're safe.

Wow....someone had a choice as to how to spend their time and energy and this is what they came up with...