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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: BengalTiger on March 07, 2012, 06:57:05 pm
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And all hell broke loose:
http://www.kens5.com/news/Ethnic-taunting-mars-Alamo-Heights-postgame-celebration-141646503.html
From the article:
The Alamo Heights students chanted "USA, USA, USA" after the Mules were presented the championship trophy at Littleton Gym.
Edison and SAISD officials said they took the chant as ethnic taunting, given that Edison is a minority team and Alamo Heights' squad is predominantly Anglo.
So now "USA" is an ethnic group.
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I think the point is that the chant could be construed as suggesting that Edison's team is not American.
Hence taunting.
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Besides, given the general usage of such a chant is almost always ironic in the popular consciousness, I don't see why anyone would expect it to be taken as affirmative.
Hell, I'm not sure why anyone would take it as affirmative in this situation anyways. Even without knowing the ethnicities of the teams involved, at best it comes off as a bizarre non-sequitor.
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It's silly to chant USA when both teams are from the US.
White American teenagers being racist? ZOMG WHO KNEW?! Next you'll tell me they're homophobic too!
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I don't blame them for being upset, the only reason to chant 'USA' at another group of Americans seems to be to suggest they're not real Americans.
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everything we do these days seems to be racist. unless of course youre not white. white people seem to draw extra scrutiny from those looking to deploy the race card on someone. we cant even show any national pride without being called neo-nazis. i mean this is one of those cases where there may or may not have been intent to display intolerance. you may have had 2 people in the crowd who had intended the chant to be racist in nature, and the rest went along with it just being patriotic, without the thought ever crossing their minds that it might be taken as offensive (i mean this falls under basic heard mentality, that aspect of human nature that makes you copy what everyone else is doing so you dont look out of place).
in retrospect it seems kinda fishy, why would you chant usa at a game where both teams are from the us? on the other hand you come to watch a sporting event to root for your team someone starts a chant and you chant along because its your team and thats what youre supposed to do to show support for your team at a sporting event. then there are those looking to troll with the race card find something vaugely offensive to certain people, and cant help but point it out. and people who would have not been offended now are, because they now have this idea that an outside group all got together and planned to be racist. tolerance goes both ways though. you should both be tolerant of other races/ethenticities/etc, but you should also try to avoid pointing the finger at people who may have not even been thinking about race at the time, because that just makes people wall themselves off into their own little groups who outgroup the other groups (as is what typically happens when dealing with human nature).
btw i dint really read the article on the grounds that i need sleeps.