re: Deke gameday banners are over

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I don't even think the sign is really a slur regardless

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Are we absolutely sure LSU didn't get mad due to the "D" part (STTDB...) and DKE isn't spinning it this way to get some fricked up PR?

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Except it's not hilarious. It's a form of comedy based on shock value and vulgarity. Funny to some, but not to the vast majority of the intelligent population. I, personally, don't want LSU to have anything to do with this kind of comedy.

However, I am baffled as to why this is the sign that got DKE into trouble. They've had some truly scummy signs over the years.

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This is actually a very good summary of the situation. I have wanted those pompous assholes to get in trouble for their poor taste and making the university look bad, but I didn't want THIS to be the final straw.

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U cannot say anything about some gay folks.

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The sad thing is, I'd imagine most of the gay people I know would either find this funny or simply roll their eyes and write it off as juvenile. I can see the "offensive" nature of it in that they're basically implying that "getting the D" is inherently bad or undesirable. But at what point can people not just write a juvenile and arguably funny sign off?

Mock a situation where people were murdered in cold blood in a gruesome and depraved manner? People basically look the other way. Offend some vocal gay people in some contrived manner? NO MOAR SIGNS!

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They are the landowners in this scenario and they get to make the rules just like your parents get to make the rules for you when you lived at home.

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Agree completely. And the more rules the better. Especially those that "chill" Hate speech and hate thought. We must not tolerate dissent from the current societal norm. I'm with you. The less public dissent , the better. No longer will we just avert our eyes, as we have done in the past. If they want to be provocateurs or participate in clumsy social commentary that is intolerant, than we must ostracize them and threaten them with sanction. If they would confine their speech to the proper parameters that have Universal agreement, they would not have to be threatened.

Either way we must demonstrate our commitment to Tolerance by being intolerant of their dissent from our demand that they be tolerant.

You're trying really, really hard to elicit responses.

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woooooosh

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WTF does this even mean?

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I can see the "offensive" nature of it in that they're basically implying that "getting the D" is inherently bad or undesirable

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Actually, they are only implying that it is bad or undesirable for Sam Houston State (who is presumed not to be gay). The presumption of straightness could be seen as offensive, but the only offense to Michael Sam here might be the perceived assumption that he is "getting" rather than "giving". I'm not gay, and not close enough to the gay community to know whether that's generally considered actually offensive or not (I know at least a couple who wouldn't be, and at least a couple who would be), but I'll take the word of anyone who claims it is on the assumption they must know better than me.

I don't understand why the entire gay community would be offended by this. How is this insensitive to the "community? " It was directed at one homosexual. An individual. And by the way an individual, who heroically, as the media would have us believe, admitted to "getting the D" on the reg. If someone put up a banner that I was getting the "P" tonight I wouldn't be offended and I would find it humorous. However it wouldn't be a very good football reference.

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WTF does this even mean?



Sarcasm

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as in *wooooosh* it went way over your head.