Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 2)

I thought He had a long white robe with a pizza box covering the lower torso.

There must be an easier way to quit your job than open racism.

Personally, I think forfeiture of games is too light a penalty. Ban the offending players from school sports permanently.

Adam and Eve wore the same leaves. So woke.

Without blackjack! Or hookers!

Go fig-ure!

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I’m trying to figure out the photo included in that link. The players seem to be flashing the L (for “loser”) hand sign, either directly at other players or symbolically to all their opponents, or something. If that is the sort of sportsmanship fostered by that coaching staff, it’s not surprising that some of the players carried it further on their own. (edited to add: or it might just be for Lowell, in which case, never mind on that point.)

Also, it appears that many of the players on that team are of Asian extraction. Which is interesting only to show that this was not unalloyed white-supremacy racism. Lowell High is elite academically, not for sports, admission is academically merit-based, and competition to get in is fierce. There are probably a lot of elitist attitudes at that school that aren’t being addressed.

First, good luck identifying them accurately; you might get a few but others would certainly get away with it. Probably not a good basis for punishment, nor for building better attitudes.

But more importantly, I think it is appropriate at this age to hold their coaching staff accountable more than the students, who are emotionally and intellectually unformed at this age, and are likely the recipients of bad leadership. Team and individual behavior should be monitored going forward, as well as coaching leadership, to make sure that lessons are learned and followed.

John “Living proof that brain damage makes people right-wing” Fetterman says the Commies have brainwashed you into not wanting data centers in your neighborhood.

So your contention is that high academic performance correlates with “elitist”/racist beliefs? :thinking:

It looks like close to 1/3 of Lowell’s admissions have non-“elite” grades and test scores, while coming from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds and/or groups historically underrepresented at the school.

Maybe the problem isn’t so much “elitism”, but rather jocks behaving badly, which occurs in lots of settings.

Really? Doesn’t look obvious to me that “many” are.

What’s the first part of that passage? Anything temporal? Maybe something like “in/on that day you shall surely die”?
And if A&E are not always mortals in The Garden why is God so concerned that they will eat from the Tree of Eternal Life? Stupid Christian retcons about the ToEL notwithstanding.

Or maybe it’s because they play for Lowell High School.

I’m pretty sure that Eru Ilùvatar assigned fixed incept dates and longevities at the point of creation.

@Roderick_Femm

Full disclosure: I like sports. I despise school sports programs. There is zero incentive for the staff to instill the values which are the supposed goals of the program nor for the students to make those values part of their own character.

No, just that people being people, those selected for merit-based admission after tough competition are more likely than regular students in regular schools to feel special, to be encouraged to feel special by their parents and possibly even the teachers.

I didn’t mean to suggest that it was one or the other, most likely both.

Just looking at the photo, most of the ones closest to the front appear to me to be of Asian extraction. The ones further back could be all something else, I couldn’t tell.

You got me. See the “edited to add” in the same paragraph, which was added one minute after posting, about 5 hours before your post.

@Monty, I’m not saying that school sports programs will instill good values, only that they ought to, if anyone is going to.

Agreed. But the evidence they do is at best ephemeral.

I found that Fetterman argle-bargle on CNN concerning. Hearing too many stupid references to Communism lately, and that didn’t help.

Communist and pedophile (except trump) are the two big rage baiting vote-getters of RW discourse these days.

Correction: Communist, pedophile (except trump), and trans-whatever are the two three big rage baiting vote-getters of RW discourse these days.

Re-correction: Communist, pedophile (except trump), trans-whatever, and Islam-whatever are the two three four big rage baiting vote-getters of RW discourse these days.

Bottom line: It’s rage-baiting vote getting all the way down. People filled with rageful thoughts are notoriously bad at actually thinking through the consequences of their decisions. Like the one to vote R. Which consequences are mostly massive public health failures, massive alliance / national security failures, massive inflation, and massive corruption.

Can’t see any of that while frothing at the mouth.

And a lot of us in this Board are of a demographic that has been hearing about how the communists were coming to take over since back when there were real officially-declared communists on the march. It’s an Old Reliable in the snarl word arsenal.

Communists, pedophiles, trans people, Muslims, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope! No, wait…communists, pedophiles, trans people, Muslims, Hillary Clinton, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope. No, wait…

'Zactly. That was the skit I was riffing. Or trying to; I’m not very good at that allusions stuff.