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Louisiana State University students are rallying to the defense of their Tigers mascot after an online petition called it a symbol of white oppression and demanded its replacement.

The original petition, created by an anonymous user on Change.org named LaMallori, cited a former LSU administrators account of the mascots origin, which explained that the nickname was chosen in reference to units from Louisiana that earned a reputation for toughness while fighting for the Confederacy during the Civil War.

"Ditching LSUs beloved mascot would be sanitizing history for the purpose of extreme political correctness."

LaMallori independently claims that the soldiers from those units were just as violent to the black slaves they owned, and later even more violent once those slaves were set free.

Calling the LSU mascot the most prevalent confederate symbol in the United States, the petition deems it incredibly insulting for any African American to have to attend to a school that honors Confederate militantism, adding that it is already hard enough to be black at LSU, and these symbols must be changed.

Almost as an aside, the petition also complains that it is cruel to cage a wild animal for the amusement of privileged white people.

[RELATED: Petition: LSU Tigers mascot a symbol of white oppression]

Facing backlash following Campus Reforms report on the petition, LaMallori added an update comparing the effort to the removal of Confederate statues in New Orleans, as well as vehemently denying any racist intent behind the original wording.

Black people will be the new majority in Louisiana, and they need to recognize this new power, the update asserts. They need to understand that we can shape the state in our image, just as white people once shaped the state in their image.

Recently, though, LSU students have created a counter-petition declaring their support for the Tigers mascot, deriding the original petition as a form of extreme political correctness and asking the school to retain the cherished symbol.

[RELATED: UWM says politically correct is no longer politically correct]

According to the counter-petition, perceptions regarding the nickname have changed dramatically since it was first selected, notably with the introduction in the 1930s of Mike the Tiger, a live tiger owned by the school and named after a former athletic trainer.

Since the advent of a live Mike the Tiger nearly a century ago, the Louisiana Tigers have come to embrace the beautiful animal named for a renowned LSU athletic trainernot a fiction that comes from a Confederate symbol, the counter-petition contends. Ditching LSUs beloved mascot would be sanitizing history for the purpose of extreme political correctness.

The counter-petition was created by David Walters, who is also a co-founder of the Students for Trump group at LSU, and at press time had garnered 691 signatures, surpassing the original petitions 635 supporters.

The point of my petition is to show that we will not put up with that kind of nonsense anymore, Walters told Campus Reform. [The tiger] is tradition and will remain that way.

[RELATED: Students petition to fire prof for shaming Trump supporters in class]

LSU Media Relations Director Ernie Ballard told WWL that the school is aware of LaMalloris petition, but insisted that the school is not considering replacing the mascot.

He also disputed the petitions claim that the original Louisiana Tigers were known for their especially harsh treatment of slaves, confirming that The tiger mascot was...selected based on lore about the battlefield ferociousness of a Louisiana regiment operating in Northern Virginia, but stating that there is no information about soldiers conduct outside of battlefield accounts.

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Rep. Clay Higgins is standing by a recent Facebook post callingradicalized Muslims as heathen animals and saying Americans should kill them all, telling Salon that the real problem seems to be political correctness.

We are a world at war, the Louisiana Republican said. The enemy is radicalized Islamic jihadists. The terrorists certainly take advantage of the politically correct madness that consumes the West. They revel, that many in the western world are frightened to speak freely. Ive never been accused of being politically correct. I call things the way I see them. The meaning of candid speech is frequently mischaracterized or misunderstood. This is about prioritizing national security and protecting American lives.

Every measure must be taken to eliminate radical Islamic terrorism and the threat it poses to the free world, he added. My only concern is protecting the people that live in my district, my state, and my country. We must stand strong against radical Islamic terror. The fate of the free world will be determined by the courageous, not by the intimidated.

Higgins became famous because of aweekly news segment called Crime Stoppers, one in which he would discuss local crimes and issue direct, no-nonsense ultimatums to the suspects. They were incredibly popular, even if his strong languageeventuallygot him in trouble, and he has ridden that reputation for frankness all the way to a political career.

The videos would frequently insult the intelligence and moral character of the criminals he was calling out and were replete with references to Higgins own Christian faith. In a particularly controversial video, Higgins called out individual members of the Gremlins street gang by name, referring to them as animals and calling one an uneducated, 125-pound punk thats never won a fair fight in your life.

Several family members of the individuals called out in the video took public exception to Higgins language.

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Louisiana Republican who supports instant death penalty for radicalized Muslims blames political correctness - Salon

By John Crump : Opinion

U.S.A. -(Ammoland.com)- It seems like every week there is some type of Islamic Extremist attack either in the US, Europe, or Asia.

These despicable attacks kills multiple people every time they happen. At the attack in Manchester, England a sick and twisted monster set off a nail bomb at an Ariana Grande concert. Over 22 people died in the attack, including kids as young as 8 years old.

The suicide bomber, who was a son of refugees, did it in the name of Islam.

This attack brought out an outpouring of sympathy across the globe, but it also brought out the social justice warriors who are more worried about people trying to place the blame of this evil attack on Islam than the kids who were killed in the attack. Katy Perry took this opportunity to give her naive solution to the problem by insisting that we need to co-exist with these monsters. Not only was her solution, to the greatest threat of our time, co-existing, but she also proposed that we can stop sons of refugees from blowing up kids by getting rid of borders, and to love one another.

They also dont care about borders. They sure as hell dont care about co-existing. All they care about is killing innocent people in their sick and twisted quest to get their 72 virgins and ascend to paradise as a martyr. Ms. Perry has been indoctrinated by the PC culture that has spread like a plague throughout the western world.

This PC culture pushes the narrative that it is better to be politically correct than to be safe. What these PC warriors dont understand is that we will never be safe until we call out those that will do us harm. The biggest threat we face as a country is radical Islam, but to the social justice warriors just by pointing this fact out makes you an Islamophobe. They argue that the terrorist are not really Muslims at all and their cowardly attacks have nothing to do with Islam. They also bring up events, like the Spanish Inquisition, that happened hundreds of years ago.

The fact is that these terrorist are real Muslims, and they are killing in the name of Islam. Islam has a pair of cancers named Wahhabism and Salafism. These two extreme forms of Islam are being exported all over the world by our so called allies, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, through the funding of extremist mosques and madrassas. [President Trump is making headway to change this with our allies.] These forms of Islam are turning the calendar back to the dark ages in the Middle East, and this is what they want for the rest of the world. Islam in itself isnt bad, but these two forms of Islam are death cults.

Beirut used to be known as The Paris Of The Middle East. Now it is a war torn city due to the rise of these extremist factions of Islam. Paris is now becoming the Beirut Of Europe, due to the same factors, whether it is a car attack, gunmen, or knife attacks on trains. Europe is in dire peril. It seems like every week there is another terrorist attack somewhere in Europe. This is what the future of the US looks like if we let the SJWs (social justice warriors) run the show.

The PC culture likes to say if we only gave them education and jobs we could stop terrorism.

The lack of education and jobs is what they blame terrorism on, and they believe we can defeat terrorism by providing education and jobs. They believe that these terrorists are not members of a death cult due to a twisted version of Islam, but that isnt what the facts show. In fact the facts do not support this at all, and show the opposite. A study published at Cambridge University, by Alexander Lee, not only disputed this idea but it showed that terrorists are half as likely to not be in poverty than the general population they stem from.

Also an abnormally high number of terrorists have engineering degrees. Even the left wing, New York Times ran an article called The Madrassa Myth which looked at the education of terrorist. What they determined is not only did most have advanced degrees, but most terrorists were from middle class to upper middle class families. Admitting this would put the blame of terrorism on radical Islam so the PC crowd ignores these facts, and if you happen to bring it up, they will call you a racist or a bigot.

The labeling of someone as racist or an Islamophobe is the left's way of shutting down opposing ideas. We have seen this with campaigns against conservative host such as Sean Hannity on Fox. This have also been seen on college campuses with groups like Antifa trying to prevent people like Milo Yiannopoulos, and Gavin McInnes from speaking on campus.

So how can we expect the people that are against liberty and freedom to accept reality?

The reality is that sometimes violence is the answer. The PC people do not want to accept the fact that these evil monsters do not want to co-exist. No amount of education is going to solve Islamic Extremism. No amount of money is going to solve Islamic Extremism. These people dont care about those things. They dont care about life. The only thing they care about is killing as many innocent people as possible. The only way to defeat them is to stop worrying being PC and just kill them.

We, as conservatives and libertarians, need to stop worrying about being labeled. Just being one of those two things is going to get you labeled anyway. We need to speak the truth and call a spade a spade. We will never win this struggle for our children's lives by being PC. We will only win by being real and speaking the truth.

The time to push back is now.

About John Crump

John is a NRA instructor and a constitutional activist. He is the former CEO of Veritas Firearms, LLC and is the co-host of The Patriot News Podcast which can be found at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/patriotnews. John has written extensively on the patriot movement including 3%'ers, Oath Keepers, and Militias. In addition to the Patriot movement, John has written about firearms, interviewed people of all walks of life, and on the Constitution. John lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and sons and is currently working on a book on the history of the patriot movement and can be followed on Twitter at @crumpyss or at http://www.crumpy.com.

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