Hey, Show Some Respect!
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18 responses to “Hey, Show Some Respect!”
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There may be some confusion here between raucous behavior and physical disruption and personal threats directed at individuals and lumping all of them together.
A more apt comparison, might be to consider students/fans in the stands coming on to the field during the game and then confronting coaches with physical threats or students in a classroom getting up jeering and shouting and threatening the instructor ….
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Is getting drunk before a game and then continuing to drink during the game part of the “Jefferson Legacy” that Mr. Smith and others are trying to promote?
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Nahh, I think it’s getting drunk while driving and then throwing the beercan into the roadside ditch.
Keep Virginia Beautiful.
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Or better yet get drunk, crash car into water, leave young lady in the car to drown. Democrat-style.
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Only if you’re drinking Jefferson’s Reserve bourbon…
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No. It was a different time. 18 was legal for beer (and maybe wine). The school didn’t have a vaccine requirement (and we somehow survived). We still had Easters, which I think got killed off after my 3rd year. Playboy (I think) rated UVA and Easters as some kind of great party school. Back then students routinely brought in flasks to football games, and even some basketball games. I’m not saying that was a great thing. I am saying what was true back then.
UVA, under Hereford, who actually loved the school, unlike the current people paid exorbitantly to destroy it, was highly embarrassed and even the CD joined in to condemn the spectacle.
I thought the response was brilliant. UVA was not embarrassed and everybody had a lot of fun. I bet even Lefty laughed.
So, I was encouraging the VaTechsters to use “Let’s go Brandon” as an all-encompassing expression of discontent (and I think all students at all schools have much well-earned discontent to express!).
As to the “legacy” you can read The Jefferson Council’s website and I think you already know that.
But, here it is –
Promote an academic environment based on open dialogue throughout the University.
Preserve the Jefferson Legacy.
Preserve the appearance of the Lawn as a UNESCO World Heritage site, and
Support and reinvigorate the Honor System.In my view, the Ryan admin fails on points 1,2 and 4, and maybe to sort of trying on point 3 because so many were upset…gotta protect the $$$$
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This is quite vulgar and in bad taste. But it’s not much different than Stephen Colbert’s pre-show remarks to his audience and only slightly better than his monologue.
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I really don’t have a problem with “disrespect”. None. But I have a big problem with intimidation and threats carried out by individuals and groups towards elected or appointed officials, and I have an even bigger complaint against equating bullying and intimidation with “disrespect”.
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You are the one who dragged “intimidation and threats carried out by individuals and groups towards elected or appointed officials” into the discussion. The article had nothing to do with those things.
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Maybe the “Let’s Go Brandon” young people should get better organized and start looting, defacing, burning, and shining lasers into the eyes of authorities.
I heard that’s how you get your way politically and earn corporate sponsorship.-
Don’t care your political leanings, but when you personally target people it’s over the line IMHO and different than racous behavior – even vandalism and looting. When you personally target people – you’re up a level from a regular rabble rouser… and deserve to be treated by the criminal justice system on that basis.
Violence towards inanimate things like cars or buildings is not the same as violence directed towards humans specifically in my book.
I don’t condone any of it, but I think some folks might be confused as to the seriousness of the crime especially if they are equating.
When you directly intimidate another person and confuse that with rable rousing or street vandalism- you need someone or the legal system to help you better understand the difference IMHO again.
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Is “directly intimidating” a man worse than burning down the building which houses his business?
I bet I know what the man would say.
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And VT could use a course in respect. One of their football players killed a transwoman in what appears to be a hate crime and the head coach and team members openly support the young man.
But “Let’s Go Brandon” is much more serious than a hate crime perpetrated against a transwoman. -
I have been at all of the VT games. I have discussed what has happened with students. NONE of it has ANYTHING to do with Biden. The chants were aimed at our university leadership. Students admit folks without tickets pushed their way into the stadium and there was disruption in lines. They claim having fun as the motivator. They mention nothing related to national issues!!! This is called making something of something that did not happen!
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The chants were aimed at our university leadership.
Joe Biden is part of VT’s university leadership? Because the crowd was not chanting “F— Timothy Sands”…
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“Let’s Go Brandon” did not originate at a football game. It came about when the crowd at a NASCAR race was chanting “F— Joe Biden” while a reporter was interviewing the winner of a race. The driver’s name is Brandon Brown.
The reporter “interpreted” the chant as “Let’s Go Brandon” because she either genuinely misunderstood what the crowd was saying or because she was trying to cover for her network and possibly save them from some FCC fines since the chant was going out over the air.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D3nQdTIUTw
My money is on the latter.
The “F— Joe Biden” chant is not just a college football thing – it’s showing up at other sporting events including, I am told, NFL games.
https://www.newsweek.com/f-joe-biden-chant-breaks-out-new-york-jets-nfl-game-1635185
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Well if VT would put some points on the board things might be different. Nothing cures a college better than a winning football team. The Hokies are lucky to be 3 and 3.
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