Anti-gay cheers at bball game
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Anonymous
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This has been bothering me for a few days, so I'm sharing. I was at the Georgetown Prep-St Albans basketball game last week. At some point, the Prep fan section started singing "But you say he's just a friend" at the STA section (remember the old Biz Markie song?), clearly reworded to offend the other fans by calling them gay. I was so, so bummed. Yes, that kind of thing happened when I was a kid, but I thought we had moved beyond it. I was going to just say something to the GP coach, but then the STA guys did it right at the end of the game. Not as bad as coming up with and planning it in the first place, but I wish they'd been able to take the high road.
Sad. These kids should know better, at the very least know not to behave like that at an event where lots of families from both communities (and local press) show up. |
Anonymous
| Yeah ugghhh gross... |
Anonymous
| That's awful. Seriously there's no bigotry that stings like upper class adolescent male bigotry. |
Anonymous
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they are kids, what do you expect them to act like?
church choir boys? sporting events generally bring out the worst in students and adults. |
Anonymous
not like scary haters |
Anonymous
| Typical suburban thugs from Prep |
Anonymous
| Kids are going to be kids. When I was growing up, faggot was a pretty common expression so behavior has improved. |
Anonymous
| Unacceptable, and everyone on here acting like it's not a big deal is equally pathetic. |
Anonymous
| Adults may adhere to progressivism but kids don't necessarily. |
Anonymous
| In this day and age, totally unacceptable. No parents, teachers, or school administrators to stop this behavior? |
Anonymous
and there's nothing more transparent than middle class gloating over it. |
Anonymous
I went to a school like this, and this is the attitude that keeps me from sending my own children. Presuming you are an adult, you just excused some godawful behavior by kids because "hey, we're richer than you and you're jealous." These kids are in for a shock when the rest of the world doesn't think they're as cute. |
Anonymous
| If you go to a game, you see this all the time, especially from Landon and Prep kids. Their parents just laugh nervously and pretend they didn't hear it. That's why those schools show the same type of behavior year after year. |
Anonymous
| Did any parents from Prep or STA inform the administration of the schools. If you have cell phone video of it they can't deny that it happened. It needs to be addressed. if the fans can't be civilized maybe a few games need to be played with no fans being able to attend. |
Anonymous
| Wtf does Landon have anything to do with this thread - nice try though. |