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Originally posted by LarryS
Give me a break...You do not have the right to go through life without being offended!
Given the stuff you see happen at college and pro sporting events these days this is pretty tame. IMO, if all the are doing is a chant, and not stirring up a physical confrontation...leave them alone.
They are not delaying the games...they are not putting anyone in harms way. Sure, they may sound stupid...but people sound stupid all the time.
There has to be more pressing things for the school officials to worry about than this.
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Not that anyone asked me but . . .
Colleges and universities in general have increasingly felt a need to act
in loco parentis because of deaths associated with drinking and drugging. There is, I believe, every reason to think that private colleges have wide lattitude to set standards of behavior in their facilities and for their students. For public schools, well, that's where the 1st Ammendment comes in.
That being said, does chanting 'Brokeback Mountain' "not [stir] up a physical confrontation"? That strikes me as a judgment call. Would chanting 'Fat boy!' engender a fight between the thins and the fats? Maybe.
I don't think adults should or can be protected from being dissed. It's part of the fabric of life - and governments adjudicating these things are more dangeous to the public good than the dissing itself.
Any homosexual who feels the sting of being disliked should measure his or her pain versus that of Steve Kerr, who had to endure fans chanting PLO; the elder Kerr was killed by the PLO, I believe, while he was in the service of the U.S. goverment.
[Edited by assignmentmaker on Feb 14th, 2006 at 04:54 PM]