Re: UNH 2018 Offseason- Out with the old , in with the semi new?
I am a geezer like many others on the board. What might be derogatory for some and normal for others, may cause our younger generation fans and players to think of us as racist. Kraut is not necessarily offensive to some but it might be best if we choose a different path on naming current day lines as it could be offensive to our younger readers. I am sorry to be PC, but it might be best to stay away from old line names to be safe.
So … I have this radical idea. How about we treat our younger fans with due respect and credit for having the ability to think for themselves, rather than assuming they're sycophantic programmed robots lapping up the latest PC pre-programmed virtue signaling messages from their socialist-leaning mentors, apparently on their way to earning their Masters' degrees/Eagle Scout badges in SJW for their latest discovery of latent racism in every nook and cranny of the Internet?
'32, I think you know we've agreed and (mostly) disagreed in the past on a whole range of topics, but I've always encouraged you to keep posting, even with stuff we're not on the same page with. That kind of full-blooded debate used to be the lifeblood of this forum. Nowadays, there's too much sensitivity and PC-induced snowflakery that keeps this place far too sterile. Can't we both be true to our respective selves, post what we think freely without fear of retribution, and set an enlightened example for the posters - young and old alike - of how free speech and freedom of expression is supposed to work? It beats the crap out of the silly game of "gotcha" that the world of social media has created around us over this last generation.
I know, you're probably too tied into campus life, and the group-think echo-chamber "bubble" and that made you feel a need to chime in like this. Understood, and I do appreciate you kept the tone of the semi-rebuke civil, so I suspect you're probably not entirely on board with the "new ways". But rest assured, I'm not going to change how I communicate, and if it offends some of our readers, then that's their problem - not mine. As noted in my signature, I'm not worried about pandering to those folks.
If folks are going to take offense at a factually-accurate description of the name of an elite line of hockey legends, then I think they're trying too hard (see above comments about the virtue-signalers' aims). If you want to pander to/accommodate them and their march towards rewriting/sanitizing history, hey, that's your choice. Enjoy the rest of the summer, and maybe we'll meet at some point this season. Gonna miss not having that home exhibition game, though.
