Phi Beta Cons

Mascot Double Standards

Some of the anti-mascot activists make a distinction between team names used by schools serving Indian populations and others–i.e., it’s okay for a high school on the rez to call its teams the Warriors, but it’s not okay for a team off the rez or in the NBA to do so.

John J. Miller, the national correspondent for National Review and host of its Great Books podcast, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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