Posted on March
10, 2021
Twin Killing?
Getting to the root, root, root of all
evil
by
Daniel
Clark
The American Conservative Union tried to pull a fast
one at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference, but it was foiled
by Alyssa Milano. The actress best known
for her childhood role in Who's the Boss tweeted,
"This is the stage at CPAC. THEY'RE NOT
EVEN TRYING TO HIDE IT ANYMORE." The
thing they weren't trying to hide was that the stage was shaped like an
inverted version of the "Odal rune," which was used as a symbol for certain
divisions of the SS in Nazi Germany.
Naturally, Ms. Milano recognized it immediately, and understood the
message it was meant to convey. All in a day's work for a liberal celebrity
activist.
The
Odal rune, which originally represented the sound of the letter "O", consists
of a square, two of whose sides are extended into L-shaped lower
extremities. Most conservatives would
more likely think it was Kenny from South
Park than a secret Nazi signal,
which presumably transmitted our marching orders to us subconsciously.
If this CPAC scheme was so obvious, then how much more
transparent is the sinister nature of the Minnesota Twins? For 28 years, the Major League Baseball
franchise played with the unmistakable image of a swastika hovering over the
middle of its home field. So maybe a
swastika is not as conspicuous as the infamous Odal rune, but still, if Alyssa
Milano had one of them smack in the middle of her ceiling, it wouldn't take
almost three decades for her to think, "Hmmm, that's kind of strange." Yet the Twins played with this symbol right in
the middle of the fiberglass roof of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome
all the way from 1982-2010.
Perhaps Minnesotans thought they were being clever by
naming the building after a champion of the Civil Rights Act, but the important
thing is not what 
Humphrey
stood for, but what his initials do. The
stadium was commonly known as the "HHH Metrodome." It doesn't take the fictional offspring of
Tony Danza to figure out that it's a short distance
from HHH to KKK. Admittedly, H and K are
different letters, if you really want to get technical about it, but racist
dog-whistle code language does not need to be technically accurate in order to
have the desired effect.
If
that sounds like a reach, consider the fact that the Minnesota Twins were
originally the Washington Senators, until team owner Calvin Griffith moved them
in 1961, in the most glaring example of white flight ever recorded. Griffith uprooted the team from a majority-nonwhite
city and transplanted it in a state whose population is 84 percent white. In fact, he actually stated this as his
motivation in infamous remarks he made in 1978.
"I'll tell you why we came to Minnesota," he said. "It was when we found out you only had 15,000
blacks here." That display of alleged
wit caused legendary slugger Rod Carew to demand to be traded, although Carew
later forgave Griffith and considered his comments to be out of character.
That's not the half of it. Minnesota's population is not only mostly
white, but it's about 32 percent Nordic.
You know, as in the people whose mythology inspired the Third
Reich. But wait; there's more! Take a look at the Twins' alternate logo,
which is sometimes worn on the sleeve.
It features two giants, named Minnie and Paul after the Twin Cities,
reaching across the Mississippi River to shake hands. Yes, this could be seen as a depiction of the
"master race," but it's worse than that.
Not even the most sophisticated eugenics program could ever produce
people that freakishly large. Minnie and
Paul are walking GMOs, obviously the products of grotesque human
experimentation. On twins, no less. Mengele, anyone?
Last year, the Twins removed the statue of Griffith
from outside their current home at Target Stadium, but that's not nearly
enough. They can't make amends for their
entire past by simply airbrushing their former owner from history, or even by
changing the team name, the way the Washington Redskins and countless universities
have done. Nor is it enough to add a
black and white shoulder patch to their uniform with some kind of a unifying
message like, "Arsonists Against America."
No, there can be no remedy short of disbanding the team, taking away the
livelihoods of everybody involved with it, and expunging its existence from the
Major League Baseball record books.
Either that, or else the rest of us could just get on
with our lives, or something.
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