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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 3:20 pm to RLDSC FAN
Posted on 6/18/20 at 3:20 pm to RLDSC FAN
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Matthew Goodwin
@GoodwinMJ
Remember when -after Charlie Hebdo- we said we would do all that we could to defend freedom of speech, no matter how offensive?
That was just five years go
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Posted on 6/18/20 at 3:21 pm to Bigfishchoupique
Well this is awkward
Posted on 6/18/20 at 3:22 pm to MorbidTheClown
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will tiger bait be next?
My God.
Let them try to tell our student section to stop doing something. Bet that won’t backfire.
Posted on 6/18/20 at 3:33 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
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This post was edited on 6/19/20 at 2:13 pm
Posted on 6/18/20 at 3:35 pm to Ed Osteen
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But why
Goes back a few years.
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In 1908 the Washington Times reported that a keeper at the New York Zoological Garden baited "Alligators With Pickaninnies" out of their winter quarters. In the article two "small colored children happened to drift through the reptile house among the throng of visitors" and they were "pressed into service." The alligators "wobbled out as quick as they could after the ebony mites, who darted around the tank just as the pursuing monsters fell with grunts of chagrin into the water." The alligators were "coaxed" into their summer quarters by "plump little Africans" ("Baits Alligators").
Ferris State EDU article about African American Babies used to bait Alligators
This post was edited on 6/18/20 at 3:37 pm
Posted on 6/18/20 at 3:36 pm to mikelbr
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This post was edited on 6/19/20 at 2:12 pm
Posted on 6/18/20 at 3:46 pm to mikelbr
This is like using Babylon bee as real evidence
Posted on 6/18/20 at 3:49 pm to mikelbr
This has been proven false several times.
Posted on 6/18/20 at 3:51 pm to fr33manator
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This is like using Babylon bee as real evidence
You ain't gotta believe it. But the perception is real and it's not new. Google "Alligator Bait African Children", You'll see this didn't just come up in 2020.
Another article from 2016 from that shitty excuse for journalism.
Undefeated Article about African American babies used as bait
This post was edited on 6/18/20 at 3:52 pm
Posted on 6/18/20 at 3:52 pm to RLDSC FAN
No way Ole Miss Rebels and Fighting Tigers survive this
Posted on 6/18/20 at 3:56 pm to mikelbr
quote:
You ain't gotta believe it. But the perception is real and it's not new. Google "Alligator Bait African Children", You'll see this didn't just come up in 2020.
Oh I know, I knew exactly where the idiotic reasoning came from.
I’m about to start making up racist background stories for anything I don’t like and promulgating them then using them as evidence of racism so I can have That thing cancelled.
Posted on 6/18/20 at 4:02 pm to Scruffy
what a liberal thinks everyone in the swamp is thinking when they go the chomp:
"oh i'm getting one over on all these blacks! they don't know this is really a euphemism for gator-on-baby violence! hehehehehe"
"oh i'm getting one over on all these blacks! they don't know this is really a euphemism for gator-on-baby violence! hehehehehe"
Posted on 6/18/20 at 4:03 pm to Logician
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what a liberal thinks everyone in the swamp is thinking when they go the chomp:
"oh i'm getting one over on all these blacks! they don't know this is really a euphemism for gator-on-baby violence! hehehehehe"
Hell I thought Florida stole "Gator Bait" from "Tiger Bait".
Posted on 6/18/20 at 4:06 pm to mikelbr
quote:
In 1908 the Washington Times reported that a keeper at the New York Zoological Garden baited "Alligators With Pickaninnies" out of their winter quarters. In the article two "small colored children happened to drift through the reptile house among the throng of visitors" and they were "pressed into service." The alligators "wobbled out as quick as they could after the ebony mites, who darted around the tank just as the pursuing monsters fell with grunts of chagrin into the water." The alligators were "coaxed" into their summer quarters by "plump little Africans" ("Baits Alligators").
So...
Let me get this straight...
A dubious historical account, very dubious, from a New York zoo... Something I would believe people in 1908 would've found pretty heinous, regardless of race, without even having to look to see if this is real...
Is evidence used to prove the University of Florida's (not New York, nowhere near New York, in fact) Gator Bait taunt is racist...
Posted on 6/18/20 at 4:12 pm to Stealth Matrix
Hell I don't know neither. I been trying to find the truth. But it's one rumor or hearsay after another. I can't find an actual picture or evidence that african american children were dangled to lure gators into zoo enclosures or for hunting.
It's like the AIDS needles in the payphone coin return slot urban legend.
This post was edited on 6/18/20 at 4:13 pm
Posted on 6/18/20 at 4:29 pm to mikelbr
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Hell I don't know neither. I been trying to find the truth. But it's one rumor or hearsay after another. I can't find an actual picture or evidence that african american children were dangled to lure gators into zoo enclosures or for hunting.
This seems like an old wives tale. Maybe the threat of gator bait was used as intimidation or a warning at the time, but the actual practice is highly doubtful.
This post was edited on 6/18/20 at 4:33 pm
Posted on 6/18/20 at 4:36 pm to bbap
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Yeah, lot of links saying thats complete bullshite fwiw.
Read the Snopes article. Even they say it's bullshite. They examined all the "news articles" from the time and found them to be more of racist dark humor than actual fact.
Posted on 6/18/20 at 5:11 pm to St Augustine
We should definitely change everything based off of chain emails and urban legendS
Maybe I can make up a story to get them to cancel “Roll Tide” or “Rammer Jammer”
Maybe I can make up a story to get them to cancel “Roll Tide” or “Rammer Jammer”
Posted on 6/18/20 at 8:31 pm to St Augustine
Did you see the black creator of the chant came out against it’s cancellation?
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