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Ramrouser said:
You must be a pretty angry guy to get this worked up over a post of mine about the ND mascot.

To quote your article:

"According to historian and author Murry Sperber, the most widely accepted explanation of how the nickname settled on Notre Dame sports teams is more gradual but still dramatic. During the 1910s and 1920s, stereotypes and ethnic slurs were openly expressed against immigrants, Catholics and Irish. The press often referred to Notre Dam teams as the Catholics - or worse, the Papists or Dirty Irish - because the school was largely populated by ethnic Catholic immigrants, many of them Irish. University leaders bristled at such descriptions, and school publicans called the team the Gold and Blue or the Notre Damers."

This was the Knute Rockne era. "Rockne may have been Norwegian, but he had the Irish flair for storytelling and drama. a natural salesman, he hired student press agents to tell the team's story. Some of them began using the 'Fighting Irish' nickname to characterize the underdog tenacity of his teams. THEY FOUND A WAY TO TURN THE DERISIVE TAUNT, WITH ITS SUGGESTION OF DRUNKEN BRAWLING (emphasis supplied), into an expression of triumph. Some students came to cherish the nickname. By owning the epithet, they transformed it into a symbol of pride."

I said in my post above that ND owned the stereotype and made it their own.
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You have as much insight into my temperament as you do anything else.

ND didn't "own the stereotype", they based their mascot on other representations of the Irish as fighters and the only relationship to the stereotype is, at best, a secondary one that allowed the school to create a better reputation for Irish folks.

You claimed that the Fighting Irish are based on "the hot tempered drunken Irishman", which is simply factually incorrect.
 
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This Department of Justice does not tolerate rogue judges — especially when they threaten the President’s core Article II powers.”
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