Utah: minor-league baseball team cancels "Caucasian Heritage Night"

[shenmue]

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Edited to add -

From the article - excerpt of a statement by the team:

A minor league baseball team in Utah has cancelled plans to host a "Caucasian Heritage Night" in August, according to the team's website.

(Snip)

"Our night was to include wonder bread on burgers with mayonnaise, clips from shows like Friends and Seinfeld and trying to solve the vertical leaping challenge.

"We understand, in light of recent tragic events, that our intentions have been misconstrued. For that, we sincerely apologise."

[Cheese Sandwich]

1. Every night is caucasian heritage night

Rejoice Caucasians


Edit: Just kidding. Caucasian heritage night is a bad idea.

[etherealtruth]

2. Had the horrible terroristic massacre in Charlseton not happened

.... what would make them think this was an acceptable idea.

[hatrack]

3. Wait, what?

You have GOT to be fucking kidding me.

[demmiblue]

4. A wee bit of a snip (sans a blind link) please.

[pinboy3niner]

7. I right-click on the blind link and copy the shortcut to reveal the link:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33209329

[gollygee]

5. hmmm

"Caucasian Heritage Night: Irish, Italian, Scandinavian, German --- or even Utahn! Whatever your background, celebrate it at the Home of the Owlz!" a calendar entry reads.

So a real Caucasian Heritage Night would read: "Georgian, Russian, Azerbaijanin. . ."

Obviously this is racist and stupid and all that, but I have to put a dig in about the use of "Caucasian" when people mean white. Pet peeve or something.

[LiberalElite]

6. That's a good call nt

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Just another day in White Bread Utah.

Gota honor them suppressed White folk you know,them brown skinned people is taking over. Stupid.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

9. Wives Get In Free (limit 4)

[Snobblevitch]

10. Thisxwas supposed to be a night of

"self-deprecating" humor. It was not a well thought out plan. I'm glad they cancelled.