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1. I find the name questionable but not terrible, but the chant and chop are lame

Thu Oct 28, 2021, 01:35 PM

Oct 2021

And as is often the case with me, I don't know that I'd call any of it 'inherently racist'.

Offensive cultural appropriation ... I'd go with that.

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