Come on, man. I know you know that's not the slam dunk you want it to be. The reality is there's just not a "it was only..." excuse anymore for a white guy to do what the guy at the Cubs game did. You might think it sucks that trolls and racists ruined the beloved dickhole game or whatever it was for white guys, but that's what's happened. This has entered the same realm that excuses, like, "it can actually mean a bundle of sticks," or, "it's really an ancient Hindu symbol," don't fly, too. It's changed for the worse because that's what shitty people were intentionally trying to do to it (due in no small part to knowing that it would lead to people trying to defend it like this), and that's just the way it is. There's no "reclaiming" or "saving" it. People just need to be smarter.