Mississippi Football Players Disrupt Play With Derogatory Slurs

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bamawriter said:
So, because bad people exist we shouldn't care that they act badly? Please, do the civilized world a favor and don't reproduce.
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There's no point to trying to make the world a perfect place. Almost everybody deals with some kind of hate speech. I don't personally think its right to use hate speech, but I can't control others that do use it.
 
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Burger said:
Educating everyone is a never-ending losing battle. It's not my job to account for people's bad behavior.
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Did I misread the thread title? Did it say "Burger Should do Something About Ole Miss Players Shouting Hate Speech"?

Not being able to correct doesn't mean you become apathetic toward it. You are excusing abhorent behavior.
 
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bamawriter said:
Did I misread the thread title? Did it say "Burger Should do Something About Ole Miss Players Shouting Hate Speech"?

Not being able to correct doesn't mean you become apathetic toward it. You are excusing abhorent behavior.
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Why should I be obligated to be the moral police?
 
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Because Your Ass Came Into This Thread. Go Away If You Don't Want To Be Bothered By It.
 
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bamawriter said:
You aren't. What you should be is a decent human being. Apparently that's beyond you.
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You don't know enough about me to make that decision. I don't judge how good of a human being you are based on a message board discussion.
 
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Burger said:
Educating everyone is a never-ending losing battle. It's not my job to account for people's bad behavior.
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Sounds like you're quite the defeatist who's more interested in self preservation than either doing the right thing or sticking up for the weak. Really, the comment speaks volumes about your character.
 
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Septic said:
Sounds like you're quite the defeatist who's more interested in self preservation than either doing the right thing or sticking up for the weak. Really, the comment speaks volumes about your character.
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What right thing could I do? Bashing someone's character doesn't ever do anything. Self-preservation is all that matters in survival. I just pick my battles. I'm into defending women more. Nobody came by my side when I was bullied all through out my life, and I am bitter about it.
 
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Burger said:
What right thing could I do? Bashing someone's character doesn't ever do anything. Self-preservation is all that matters in survival. I just pick my battles. I'm into defending women more. Nobody came by my side when I was bullied all through out my life, and I am bitter about it.
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No one came to my aide, either, but now I stand up for people. It's not difficult.
 
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Burger said:
What right thing could I do? Bashing someone's character doesn't ever do anything. Self-preservation is all that matters in survival. I just pick my battles. I'm into defending women more. Nobody came by my side when I was bullied all through out my life, and I am bitter about it.
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You don't sound bitter. You sound like you developed Stockholm Syndrome and started relating to your tormentors.
 
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I would have gotten up and walked out bc I get tired of being force fed that crap.
 
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While we can all agree heckling performers is classless no matter what, this is an especially disturbing and disheartening story. I'm not sure how familiar y'all are with the TRUE story of Matthew Shepard that this play depicts.

He was a 22 year old college student who was kidnapped and beaten into a coma with a pistol, then tied to a fence post and left to die all b/c of his sexual orientation. He spent 18 hours hanging on that post before someone found him. He never regained consciousness from the extensive torture and died in the hospital.

It isn't as if these players heckled a cast during some corny performance of Oklahoma! or Grease... This is a story about somebody's son, barely an adult, being brutally murdered for just being himself. If I was the one LGBT cast member they interviewed after the performance I'd be incredibly hurt by all of this. Try and imagine how that moment had to have felt for him. It's a damn shame.
 
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caudilld said:
While we can all agree heckling performers is classless no matter what, this is an especially disturbing and disheartening story. I'm not sure how familiar y'all are with the TRUE story of Matthew Shepard that this play depicts.

He was a 22 year old college student who was kidnapped and beaten into a coma with a pistol, then tied to a fence post and left to die all b/c of his sexual orientation. He spent 18 hours hanging on that post before someone found him. He never regained consciousness from the extensive torture and died in the hospital.

It isn't as if these players heckled a cast during some corny performance of Oklahoma! or Grease... This is a story about somebody's son, barely an adult, being brutally murdered for just being himself. If I was the one LGBT cast member they interviewed after the performance I'd be incredibly hurt by all of this. Try and imagine how that moment had to have felt for him. It's a damn shame.
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Exactly. Completely disgusting what they did. I'm amazed by some if the comments in this thread. Apparently it's no big deal to heckle a kid who was kidnapped, tortured, and ultimately killed.
 
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caudilld said:
While we can all agree heckling performers is classless no matter what, this is an especially disturbing and disheartening story. I'm not sure how familiar y'all are with the TRUE story of Matthew Shepard that this play depicts.

He was a 22 year old college student who was kidnapped and beaten into a coma with a pistol, then tied to a fence post and left to die all b/c of his sexual orientation. He spent 18 hours hanging on that post before someone found him. He never regained consciousness from the extensive torture and died in the hospital.

It isn't as if these players heckled a cast during some corny performance of Oklahoma! or Grease... This is a story about somebody's son, barely an adult, being brutally murdered for just being himself. If I was the one LGBT cast member they interviewed after the performance I'd be incredibly hurt by all of this. Try and imagine how that moment had to have felt for him. It's a damn shame.
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I agree with the gist of your post, but your second paragraph is omitting several points. In all likelihood his orientation had nothing to do with the murder
 
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Toujours Pret said:
I agree with the gist of your post, but your second paragraph is omitting several points. In all likelihood his orientation had nothing to do with the murder
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One author claiming he was a meth head doesn't mean "in all likelihood."
 
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