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I do remember the Fightin Whities. The humor there, in my opinion, was the social satire of the use of Native American symbolism/cultural icons as school mascots. It was a tongue-in-cheek humor, which I thought was clever. I don't really see a socially-redeeming value to this image. How does it point out stereotypes or make any cultural statements? I do see that they were probably only making what was intended to be light-hearted joke - to be taken in the sense that Nikki alluded to earlier. However, I think it's a bit disingenuous to say that you can't see how people - Asian or otherwise - would be offended at it. I'm not about to take to the streets to protest it by any means; however, I think it probably wasn't the best idea. I think if you took the same concept and put an Asian team in the picture with them with little wigs cut out and pasted to their backs, you might have something that was more appropriate. If they showed some mutual skewering of national/ethnic stereotypes, then it might be a different story. However, this image to me, based on the little that I know about it, doesn't seem to make any statement making the racial stereotype seem absurd...but if anything, seems to playfully perpetuate the symbolism of the gesture.
All in all, I think it was a bad idea.
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