If skinny jeans aren't cool anymore, I wish I had a picture of me from middle school in my JNCO jeans so I could prove how cool I was to all these Zers
@LasVegasLocally@unlv@unlv_president And out of a sense of decorum, even though I stand by my argument, I will apologize for the snark that attended my first tweet. I could have entered the conversation with a bit more tact, so I deserve the heat.
@LasVegasLocally@unlv@unlv_president "Reb" itself was confederate slang for fellow Confederate soldiers. We're going to have to agree to disagree on this
@LasVegasLocally@unlv@unlv_president Dude, I know what their intentions were, and as I have stated already, I don't think that Hey Reb was a far enough departure from the original confederate mascot. The gray uniform, the similarity between mountain attire and military garb, the 19th-cent mustache. Not to mention...
@McLovinVegas@LasVegasLocally@unlv@unlv_president I'm well aware of this. Unfortunately, the origin of the mascot remains a confederate soldier, and a mountain man isn't exactly a total departure so the iconography of each character overlaps in an unfortunate way that will always bring to mind the original for some people
@McLovinVegas@LasVegasLocally@unlv@unlv_president The original mascot was a confederate soldier, and every decade or so UNLV has taken half measures to move the imagery away from that without ever fully committing. So, yeah, Reb is a mountain man, but a mountain man that originated from confederate colors and fashions