I think Rat is tricking everyone into saying “offensive” things in order to get rid of them. He doesn’t really want people to be sensitive. He just likes messing things up.
Another person completely cancelled, and who won’t shut up about how he has no forum in a public forum. Like Louis CK, Kanye, and even Bill Cosby. How can we miss you if you won’t go away?
We had a Native American at our Sunday church service, describing the problems in Canada’s Residential Schools; and he never used the terms Native American or First People or indigenous. They were still Indians.
George Carlin had a famous routine “Seven Words You Can’t Say on Television”. Actually there were/are > 700 words you can’t say on TV. There were likely 7+ terms for urination you couldn’t say, dozens of terms for male/female anatomy you couldn’t say-even when the same words were fine if used to describe a rooster or the name Richard. So where do you draw the line not to offend? Is a woke to object to the use of the N words for Afro Americans, F word for gays, C word for women?
The Woke can call anything or anybody what ever they like. But, they can’t change what it or they are. William Shakespeare said it best, I quote “What’s in a name, a rose by any other name will still smell the same.”
I remember the cap guns we had. They had real caps. With real gunpowder. Later I tried making my own gunpowder with limited success. Kids today don’t get that inspiration
Many Native Americans prefer “Indians.” The ones who REALLY don’t like calling Native Americans “Indians” are people from India, who have to identify themselves as “an Indian. FROM INDIA.”
Many aboriginal people use the English word “Indian” because it is just a foreign word of no consequence. Some object to Native American because of the American part. I suppose Pre-Columbian works as it avoids the discussion of multiple waves of migration, but no one likes Columbus any more.Indigenous covers a lot of territory. Redskin is right out.
Keep erasing history regardless of the cost or impact. They erased Aunt Jemimiah and now her family won’t get any of the payments for the use of her image that they used to get. She enjoyed her work, traveling and meeting people. But that’s ok, erase history, that way you won’t be ale to learn from it.
THEY ARE NOT INDIANS!! Some dumb Italian thought he landed in India. therefore called the people Indians. they were Haitians. The Italian never made it to the main land where the people were Americans, Muscovees, Seminoles, Apache,Cherokee. No rajahs,patels,buddas, or taj majhas. THE DANISH WERE HERE FIRST, GO VIKINGS. I BELIEVE IN THOR!!!
To all claiming that the Cleveland Indians were named after Louis Sockalexis: That’s a big, fat LIE!
The team Sockalexis played for was the Cleveland Spiders, a team eliminated by the National League in 1900 after posting a 20–134 in 1899. The Cleveland Indians were established by the American League in 1901. Their original name was the Blues, then Bronchos, then they were called the Naps after their manager Nap Lajoie. The team looked for a new nickname after Lajoie left the team. They chose Indians but did not give a reason for the new nickname.
Nobody named a team after a player that played for a grand total of 94 games over 3 seasons, last of which he batted .224.
Here was the announcement of the name change on January 16, 1915. No mention of Louis Sockalexis.
Cleveland Nine Indians Now.
CLEVELAND, O., Jan. 16.-The Cleveland American League baseball team will hereafter be known as the " Indians," it was decided this afternoon at a meeting of club offictals and baseball writers. The name “Naps" became obsolete when Napoleon Lajolie went to the Philadelphia Americans.It was also decided at the meeting to agree on " Spiders " as a name for the Cleveland’ American Assoclation team.
I get that “PC” can go too far, but I hope we don’t get to the point where we become afraid to call out genuine racism and bigotry for fear of being labeled as “PC,” “woke,” “SJW,” or whatever.
This is part of Rat’s Grand Plan to rub out all the other characters in Pearls Before Swine and make it his very own absolutely private domain, no one else allowed!…
Don’t worry, kiddies, pig and goat will be back next — HEY, why isn’t there a holiday about comics? Oh, I know, April 1! (Nah, they’ll be back Sunday or Monday, if not sooner)
BE THIS GUY over 1 year ago
Land stealers and indigenous people
(Discuss amongst yourselves. I’m out of here)
parforden over 1 year ago
Ok, not dead after all. I stand corrected.
B UTTONS over 1 year ago
Rat – please erase social media and their respective “master minds”
GeorgeInAZ over 1 year ago
Rat is right. Both cowboys and Indians were native Americans.
enigmamz over 1 year ago
Fine: Native Americans and Indians.
BasilBruce over 1 year ago
Someone should use that pencil on Rat, either the eraser or the sharp end.
Cornelius Noodleman over 1 year ago
Mr. Pastis, Rat stole your pencil.
Bilan over 1 year ago
Technically, Goat is innocent. He gave the name of the kid’s game. He didn’t call anybody an Indian.
sirbadger over 1 year ago
Goat: Can you give me my horns back so I can headbutt you?
TonysSon over 1 year ago
Rat seems to be rubbing people the wrong way.
iggyman over 1 year ago
Rat, the fastest eraser in the West!
some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member over 1 year ago
Oh good, a whole week of this.
Doug K over 1 year ago
Instead of “Shoot first (and answer questions later).”,
… Now it’s "Cancel first (and … uh … that’s it … just ‘Cancel’)
buer over 1 year ago
I played Billy The Kid versus Gunga Din so I can call it they way Goat said it.
Stocky One over 1 year ago
Cow persons
Rasslebear over 1 year ago
So now it’s the Cleveland Native Americans?
monya_43 over 1 year ago
Goat has some staying power after his erasure. You go, Goat. Rat set you up.
Count Olaf Premium Member over 1 year ago
Mr Pastis is living dangerously with strips and comments like this lest he wake the WOKE.
rmercer Premium Member over 1 year ago
They weren’t native either. Just beat the Europeans by 10 to 100 millenia…
Ellis97 over 1 year ago
I think Rat is tricking everyone into saying “offensive” things in order to get rid of them. He doesn’t really want people to be sensitive. He just likes messing things up.
Tallguy over 1 year ago
But the Irish are still drunks and the Scotts are still cheap, right?
ksu71 over 1 year ago
Hey Rat. Please come to Cleveland and get my team back.
billsplut over 1 year ago
Another person completely cancelled, and who won’t shut up about how he has no forum in a public forum. Like Louis CK, Kanye, and even Bill Cosby. How can we miss you if you won’t go away?
uniquename over 1 year ago
I don’t know if entrapment counts, Rat. Clearly you were thinking the same thing, so maybe you should be erased too.
jmartin1955 over 1 year ago
So tomorrow to pile of dots (Pig and Goat) talk to each other saving Pastis from any drawing – genius
Geophyzz over 1 year ago
We had a Native American at our Sunday church service, describing the problems in Canada’s Residential Schools; and he never used the terms Native American or First People or indigenous. They were still Indians.
Gen.Flashman over 1 year ago
George Carlin had a famous routine “Seven Words You Can’t Say on Television”. Actually there were/are > 700 words you can’t say on TV. There were likely 7+ terms for urination you couldn’t say, dozens of terms for male/female anatomy you couldn’t say-even when the same words were fine if used to describe a rooster or the name Richard. So where do you draw the line not to offend? Is a woke to object to the use of the N words for Afro Americans, F word for gays, C word for women?
tlowees over 1 year ago
The Woke can call anything or anybody what ever they like. But, they can’t change what it or they are. William Shakespeare said it best, I quote “What’s in a name, a rose by any other name will still smell the same.”
jpfrasier over 1 year ago
um maybe Rat should be cancelled. I believe the accepted term now is indigenous peoples.
Willywise52 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Bovine Wranglers.Cancelled!
Jeffin Premium Member over 1 year ago
Cow people.
mindjob over 1 year ago
I remember the cap guns we had. They had real caps. With real gunpowder. Later I tried making my own gunpowder with limited success. Kids today don’t get that inspiration
Diat60 over 1 year ago
Actually native people played Cowboys and Indians. Only difference – they won!
Ignatz Premium Member over 1 year ago
Many Native Americans prefer “Indians.” The ones who REALLY don’t like calling Native Americans “Indians” are people from India, who have to identify themselves as “an Indian. FROM INDIA.”
Gen.Flashman over 1 year ago
So, is asking “dot or feather”? woke.
Ishka Bibel over 1 year ago
Go ahead, discuss Brazil Nuts.
Ishka Bibel over 1 year ago
Many aboriginal people use the English word “Indian” because it is just a foreign word of no consequence. Some object to Native American because of the American part. I suppose Pre-Columbian works as it avoids the discussion of multiple waves of migration, but no one likes Columbus any more.Indigenous covers a lot of territory. Redskin is right out.
Sportymonk over 1 year ago
Keep erasing history regardless of the cost or impact. They erased Aunt Jemimiah and now her family won’t get any of the payments for the use of her image that they used to get. She enjoyed her work, traveling and meeting people. But that’s ok, erase history, that way you won’t be ale to learn from it.
CaveCat87 over 1 year ago
I hope that someone decides to erase Rat and bring back Pig and Goat.
Wotaz over 1 year ago
THEY ARE NOT INDIANS!! Some dumb Italian thought he landed in India. therefore called the people Indians. they were Haitians. The Italian never made it to the main land where the people were Americans, Muscovees, Seminoles, Apache,Cherokee. No rajahs,patels,buddas, or taj majhas. THE DANISH WERE HERE FIRST, GO VIKINGS. I BELIEVE IN THOR!!!
Radish the wordsmith over 1 year ago
Rat will be the only character in the cartoon eventually.
Suzanne S Barnhill Premium Member over 1 year ago
Eraser crumbs.
hooglah over 1 year ago
Political correctness is gone way to far. It ridiculous.
198.23.5.11 over 1 year ago
Early American Indian baseball player—Chief Meyers,Christy Mathewson’s catcher for the old NY Giants.
And Chief Bender,star pitcher for Connie Mack’s Philadelphia Athletics.
Jim Thorpe tried baseball,but didn’t stick.
MartinPerry1 over 1 year ago
This must be the end times!
stamps over 1 year ago
It’s a shame we never got to see the Dallas Cowboys vs the Cleveland Indians.
russef over 1 year ago
So if the Cleveland whatevers have a minor league team call the Foothill Pale Faces is that OK??
Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member over 1 year ago
I don’t understand. We are all the same species, just different tribes.
leopardglily over 1 year ago
Retraction: I made a dumb comment, ticked off a lot of people, I’m sorry for that.
dlestersprint0 over 1 year ago
What about the Chicago Blackhawks? When are the woke idiots going to b$%^h them?
T... over 1 year ago
He’s got Pig, Goat – Watch out Stephan…
ComicRelief over 1 year ago
Colonists and natives
BE THIS GUY over 1 year ago
To all claiming that the Cleveland Indians were named after Louis Sockalexis: That’s a big, fat LIE!
The team Sockalexis played for was the Cleveland Spiders, a team eliminated by the National League in 1900 after posting a 20–134 in 1899. The Cleveland Indians were established by the American League in 1901. Their original name was the Blues, then Bronchos, then they were called the Naps after their manager Nap Lajoie. The team looked for a new nickname after Lajoie left the team. They chose Indians but did not give a reason for the new nickname.
Nobody named a team after a player that played for a grand total of 94 games over 3 seasons, last of which he batted .224.
Here was the announcement of the name change on January 16, 1915. No mention of Louis Sockalexis.
Cleveland Nine Indians Now.
CLEVELAND, O., Jan. 16.-The Cleveland American League baseball team will hereafter be known as the " Indians," it was decided this afternoon at a meeting of club offictals and baseball writers. The name “Naps" became obsolete when Napoleon Lajolie went to the Philadelphia Americans.It was also decided at the meeting to agree on " Spiders " as a name for the Cleveland’ American Assoclation team.
AndrewSihler over 1 year ago
Actual arrows? My goodness. Or has the Cowboys’ Union gone militant?
JoeMartinFan Premium Member over 1 year ago
I get that “PC” can go too far, but I hope we don’t get to the point where we become afraid to call out genuine racism and bigotry for fear of being labeled as “PC,” “woke,” “SJW,” or whatever.
willispate over 1 year ago
maybe Rat can do Zebra a favor, and erase the Crocs.
Otis Rufus Driftwood over 1 year ago
Cancel culture is horrible.
Sisyphos over 1 year ago
I can see clearly now!
This is part of Rat’s Grand Plan to rub out all the other characters in Pearls Before Swine and make it his very own absolutely private domain, no one else allowed!…
DaBump Premium Member over 1 year ago
Don’t worry, kiddies, pig and goat will be back next — HEY, why isn’t there a holiday about comics? Oh, I know, April 1! (Nah, they’ll be back Sunday or Monday, if not sooner)
garysmigs over 1 year ago
but don’t they tell us “native americans” walked here over the siberian land bridge also making them a non-native species?
AndreasMartin over 1 year ago
Everyone born in America is a ‘native’, and screw anyone claiming something else. To hell with those racists.
Katje over 1 year ago
I think the Indian immigrants from India would disagree.
aussie399 Premium Member about 1 year ago
Just shows how bloody stupid the cancel culture morons are