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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vongarr" data-source="post: 7664690" data-attributes="member: 53022">I have no doubt that Germain was snippy and rude with the original vitriol. I can't blame her, and that's her style.I also have no doubt that the petition and the other messages were over the top. I also wonder how much this has to do with the game, and how much it has to do with naming controversies of sporting teams.If The Strange had a Jim Crow, or reconstruction era incursion, with "massas" and share croppers, would that be OK simply because it is part of a cultural memory? What about a prohibition era incursion, where the women were prostitutes and the distillers toothless hillbillies? Some might say these are not the same, but that is because our cultural connections are much closer than they are to the thunder plains imagery.I found MCG to be overwhelmingly self congratulatory in their tone. It's a bit much, considering they were the instigators. But that's their style.</blockquote>