Professors Protest University Of Wyoming Slogan Praising Cowboys, Then This Happens

Was this attempt more political correctness run amok? Was the Board of Trustees right to stand firm? Will the slogan remain?

 

Was the Board of Trustees right to stand firm?

Damn straight...

 

Save a horse,ride A Cowboy!!!

 

Marxist professors have gone full stupid, never go full stupid.

 

I’m not really bothered about the “political correctness”. I can somewhat see their point but it didn’t strike me as a major issue. Regardless, they were entitled to express their opinion.

The main takeaway I get from all this is the idea that the campaign made money and therefore any objections are automatically wrong. The argument appears to be that anything goes as long as it’s profitable, which is obviously a dangerous precedent to be setting.

 

Cowboys were some of the poorest of the poor doing some of the worst work in that era of our history. How does a group of powerless people,
have “undertones of racism, homophobia, genocidal undertones”?

 

Exactly.

Not to mention thousands of jokes referencing The Village People and Brokeback Mountain.

The whole "controversy" seems like much ado about nothing.

 

I've no interest in defending the objections. As I made clear, that aspect doesn't strike me as the most significant.

 

In those days if you had fortitude you rode and worked another day, and you ate another day. The chuck wagon was open.

When they dismantle Cody, WY, you know the end of the world is coming soon.

 

I ask, in advance, that you excuse my ignorance. But I don't understand why a University would have that slogan. Are there university courses related to being a 'cowboy'? Can anyone explain this to me?

As for the professors - its PC run amok in my view. Like @HonestJoe, I believe the professors had the right to their opinion, but it appears it went no where in the face of profitability.

 

The university's athletic mascot was the Cowboy but now it's the Cowboys and Cowgirls.