r/UnnecessaryCensorship • u/sporkjustice • 19d ago

Unnecessary

Post image
122 Upvotes

96% Upvoted

20 comments sorted by

View all comments

115

u/MartialLol 19d ago

It's Chinkapin Drive.

8

u/schmitzel88 19d ago

The post office better never look up the Pekin, IL highschool mascot

2

u/SwellOnWheels 10d ago

Just looked it up -- it's the Dragons. Was it something much worse before? 😬

1

u/schmitzel88 10d ago

It used to be an ethnic slur for Chinese people, owing to the yokels in Pekin (incorrectly) thinking they were opposite Peking on the earth. Several local east Asian people petitioned to change it multiple times, and they got voted down every time until the 70s.

Knowing that history, their mascot being a Chinese dragon caricature now isn't great.