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re: Florida discontinues use of popular 'Gator Bait' at sporting events due to racial imagery
Posted on 6/18/20 at 12:56 pm to member12
Posted on 6/18/20 at 12:56 pm to member12
quote:
Do we have any Florida posters that can explain why people are outraged by this?
There’s an urban legend that white people used to drag black peoples behind boats to bait alligators...
Despite there being no actual evidence of this. Like most things ignorant people deem racist. Like crowbar, buck knife, etc.
One ignorant person shares their ignorant and untrue “facts” and before long it becomes the “truth”. Despite zero evidence
This post was edited on 6/18/20 at 12:58 pm
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Posted on 6/18/20 at 12:56 pm to Freight Joker
quote:
Alabama can kiss Dixie Land Delight bye bye
You know they will dig up something on Rammer Jammer too, if "Gator Bait" can be deemed racist.
Posted on 6/18/20 at 12:57 pm to fr33manator
quote:Maybe it's because you have to be in the water to be attacked by a shark...
Jaws is fine because most shark attack victims are white for some reason. Maybe sharks just hate white people
Posted on 6/18/20 at 12:57 pm to SouthEndzoneTiger
quote:
While I know of no evidence of racism associated with our "Gator Bait" cheer at UF sporting events
=/=
there is horrific historic racist imagery associated with the phrase,"
I would have given anything to hear a reporter loudly yell, "Oh frick off!" upon hearing this.
Posted on 6/18/20 at 12:57 pm to fr33manator
quote:
There’s an urban legend that white people used to drag black peoples behind boats to bait alligators...
There is?
Posted on 6/18/20 at 12:58 pm to RLDSC FAN
UF Gator Bait Chant
quote:
If you're unfamiliar ... America's past use of "gator bait" truly is disturbing -- reportedly, white men would use African-American babies to lure gators out of swamps so they could hunt them more easily for their skin.
Posted on 6/18/20 at 12:59 pm to JudgeRoyBean
quote:
If you're unfamiliar ... America's past use of "gator bait" truly is disturbing -- reportedly, white men would use African-American babies to lure gators out of swamps so they could hunt them more easily for their skin.
Link to where this has been "reported"? Who the frick ever heard of such a thing?
Posted on 6/18/20 at 12:59 pm to RLDSC FAN
Honest to God, I seriously expected a link to Babylon Bee after reading the title I guess that’s a good indicator of just how incredibly ridiculous real life has become when it’s actually no joke.
Posted on 6/18/20 at 12:59 pm to Y.A. Tittle
quote:
There is?
I heard some ignorant arse black woman tell me this once.
As well as the term “crow bar” being based on “Jim crow” (it’s been around since Roman times) and other stupid stuff.
Posted on 6/18/20 at 1:00 pm to fr33manator
Immediate legend status if TGBFTL plays this at the swamp this season when we are winning in the fourth quarter
Posted on 6/18/20 at 1:00 pm to JudgeRoyBean
But chicken is so much cheaper. Why would they use babies?
Posted on 6/18/20 at 1:00 pm to fr33manator
quote:
There’s an urban legend that white people used to drag black peoples behind boats to bait alligators...
I'm not bragging or anything, but I know alot of shite, however, I've never heard that. How many people do you think have actually ever heard that?
Besides, I have it on good authority that a hungry gator may may be the least discriminatory creature in the world. For fricks sake, they eat NUTRIA!
RIP, Tanden.
Posted on 6/18/20 at 1:01 pm to fr33manator
quote:
There’s an urban legend that white people used to drag black peoples behind boats to bait alligators...
I have never heard that before. And that's clearly not the purpose of yelling Gator Bait.
Posted on 6/18/20 at 1:02 pm to Rouge
quote:
Immediate legend status if TGBFTL plays this at the swamp this season when we are winning in the fourth quarter
This was my exact thought when I first read this
Posted on 6/18/20 at 1:02 pm to goofball
Yep, that was my thought. How is there outrage in this?
Posted on 6/18/20 at 1:02 pm to Y.A. Tittle
quote:
Who the frick ever heard of such a thing?
People who invented it from whole cloth. Zero evidence or sense behind it. Now people have been fed/sacrificed to crocodiles...in Africa, by “people of color”.
And I’m sure that people have been thrown to the gators. But there is no evidence of anyone ever using black babies to lure gators out of the swamp. Because it doesn’t work like that.
You’d use cut up raw meat.
Posted on 6/18/20 at 1:02 pm to JudgeRoyBean
quote:
If you're unfamiliar ... America's past use of "gator bait" truly is disturbing -- reportedly, white men would use African-American babies to lure gators out of swamps so they could hunt them more easily for their skin.
That was more likely to be Native Americans, but they would just use any ol' baby they could catch. After all, Native Americans taught the Europeans how to hunt gators.
Posted on 6/18/20 at 1:03 pm to RLDSC FAN
It is racist toward gators as they are Cute, cuddly, loveable, and loyal pets.
Just because people see them kill their prey to eat does not mean that they are all bad reptiles.
Just because people see them kill their prey to eat does not mean that they are all bad reptiles.
Posted on 6/18/20 at 1:04 pm to fr33manator
quote:
And I’m sure that people have been thrown to the gators.
If Carole Baskin had alligators.....
Posted on 6/18/20 at 1:04 pm to kywildcatfanone
quote:
If you're unfamiliar ... America's past use of "gator bait" truly is disturbing -- reportedly, white men would use African-American babies to lure gators out of swamps so they could hunt them more easily for their skin.
Yeah, this never happened.
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