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Shark Sandwich posted:School sports are dumb but if you didn’t have them The South might spend money on something besides producing a permanent GOP underclass These are narrow-minded prejudices. Athletics is a great and humanistic pursuit. You're not as different from the Southern underclass you hold in contempt as you think.
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Thug Lessons posted:These are narrow-minded prejudices. Athletics is a great and humanistic pursuit. You're not as different from the Southern underclass you hold in contempt as you think. I don’t blame them tho. Said underclass didn’t have much of a say in the matter. I just think multi-million dollar stadia for high schools is a modern day “bread and circus”
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Apr 13, 2018 19:32
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zeal posted:abolish school sports, institute weekly school phalanx drill as physical education Handing everyone a halberd would either fix the rape problem or make it a lot worse and there's only one way to find out which.
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Apr 13, 2018 19:36
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OP this is your website isn't it?
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Apr 13, 2018 19:37
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I had an act essay question about whether or not mandatory participation in school sports would be good or bad. So I wrote a ridiculous essay on how mandatory athletics would create a class divide and people would be throwing footballs through windows and burning effigies of John Madden in nonathletic people's front yards. Ended up getting a couple points shy of a perfect score for it. So school sports is bad.
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Apr 13, 2018 19:39
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Shark Sandwich posted:I don’t blame them tho. Said underclass didn’t have much of a say in the matter. I just think multi-million dollar stadia for high schools is a modern day “bread and circus” I'm in favor of sports, not hubristic excess.
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shove me like you do posted:I had an act essay question about whether or not mandatory participation in school sports would be good or bad. So I wrote a ridiculous essay on how mandatory athletics would create a class divide and people would be throwing footballs through windows and burning effigies of John Madden in nonathletic people's front yards. Ended up getting a couple points shy of a perfect score for it. I mean swap out Madden for Paterno and you have State College, PA
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Apr 13, 2018 19:39
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gently caress man look at these hosed up sex scandals sports suck rear end. good thing we are free of these sick perverts in wholesome places like politics, education, corporations, entertainment, families,
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Apr 13, 2018 19:45
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Comrayn posted:gently caress man look at these hosed up sex scandals sports suck rear end. good thing we are free of these sick perverts in wholesome places like politics, education, corporations, entertainment, families, The common thread in all of these is someone having way too much power
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Apr 13, 2018 19:55
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Jeb! Repetition posted:The common thread in all of these is someone having way too much power down with the bourgeois parents lift up the child working class
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Apr 13, 2018 20:00
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Comrayn posted:down with the bourgeois parents lift up the child working class The family version of "too much power" is when parents' rights supersede those of children, particularly treating kids as property and anything done to them as a private matter. And also in large family systems where there's an actual patriarch, but that doesn't happen as much in modern times outside Utah
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Apr 13, 2018 20:09
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Sounds like teenagers getting head trauma is a problem almost exclusive to american football, OP. And like others already said, rape can happen in basically any environment where there's an imbalance of power and lack of protections, so I dunno why sports in particular would be special? If you're just criticizing a for-profit system that leads students to try pursuing a sports career instead of getting an academic degree, it seems better to focus on that instead.
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Apr 13, 2018 20:47
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you can get the same kinds of brain damage playing rugby or soccer
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Apr 13, 2018 21:06
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fun fact: women's hockey, a noncontact sport, has more concussions than football
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Apr 13, 2018 22:43
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is there any solution “liberals” like the op have to anything that isn’t “ban it.”
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Apr 13, 2018 23:21
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OP definitely seems mad that they had to so the 100m sprint in high school and it took them 30 seconds while screaming "I'm having a heart attack" in between sobs.
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Apr 13, 2018 23:25
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GalacticAcid posted:athletes are better than nerds and I encourage them to bully their inferior classmates If GamerGate showed us something, it showed us that the jocks were right all along. Nerds are terrible people with a persecution complex. Also,  abolish school sports is the gooniest thing I've read all day.
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Apr 14, 2018 00:38
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:is there any solution “liberals” like the op have to anything that isn’t “ban it.”
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Doc Neutral posted:If GamerGate showed us something, it showed us that the jocks were right all along. Nerds are terrible people with a persecution complex. Also, 
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Thug Lessons posted:These are narrow-minded prejudices. Athletics is a great and humanistic pursuit. You're not as different from the Southern underclass you hold in contempt as you think. I work with 3 ex-HS football players and they're all fat alcoholics with literally no friends. Small sample size but whatever.
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Apr 14, 2018 00:50
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Crew, cross county, golf, track & field, swimming, there are plenty of high school sports that carry little to no risk of concussion.
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Apr 14, 2018 01:02
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nba is good, ncaa is unwatchable and basically total exploitation
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Apr 14, 2018 01:40
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get that OUT of my face posted:my solution is to stop giving colleges and high schools stadiums worth millions of dollars in lieu of actual education, stop making coaches the highest-paid state employees, and stop treating athletes as privileged people that are above discipline and punishment  Also college athletes should be paid.
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Apr 14, 2018 01:49
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school sports taught me how to win a ton of fights but even though I appreciate that it's obvious all public schools should have their sports shut down and private schools stop getting federal backed student loan money
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Apr 14, 2018 02:21
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get that OUT of my face posted:fun fact: women's hockey, a noncontact sport, has more concussions than football Imagine thinking of hockey as a noncontact sport
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Apr 14, 2018 02:33
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Doc Neutral posted:If GamerGate showed us something, it showed us that the jocks were right all along. Nerds are terrible people with a persecution complex. Also, It's also pretty goony to talk about nerds and jocks after high school
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Apr 14, 2018 02:36
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Note that I didn't say abolish phys ed, I said abolish school sports, and the examples I've posted should show you what I'm talking about.
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Apr 14, 2018 02:42
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Jeb! Repetition posted:Imagine thinking of hockey as a noncontact sport
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Apr 14, 2018 03:04
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get that OUT of my face posted:women play it noncontact for reasons that i don't understand (probably rooted in sexism and the belief that they're the physically weaker gender). ditto lacrosse Sounds like a much healthier version, to be honest.
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Apr 14, 2018 03:54
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Sounds like a much healthier version, to be honest. get that OUT of my face posted:fun fact: women's hockey, a noncontact sport, has more concussions than football
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Apr 14, 2018 04:05
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take all the football money and put it towards something either academic or lowering tuitions
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Apr 14, 2018 04:26
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get that OUT of my face posted:you'd think, but But more than
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holy moley this thread is awful abolish school sports because of the actions of people in south texas? that's loving stupid god drat it, i hate saying this poo poo: there are hundreds of millions of people in this country, a nation the size of europe, with all kinds of cultural, economic, and geographical diversity. its banning soccer in norway because of some bullshit that happened in croatia. and i didn't even play a lot of school sports. i did theater. which makes this sound even more dumb and out of touch: Jeb! Repetition posted:Well every parent goes to watch their kids in performances plus they don't yell at them to act harder or drive home in shame if they hit the wrong note. I don't know if sports "engages community members" better than other after-school activities but I do know it doesn't cause people to care about anything other than the sports themselves you have no idea what its like for various people in situations different from your own. just absolutely no clue.
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school sports as they currently are, seems more like a way for schools to vie for prestige through winning tournaments/competitions, rather than a personal health or communal/social activity which is I think why bad coaches are tolerated, or kids are pressured into putting so much time into their game (and therefore becoming too dependent on/exposed to authority figures in these areas)
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basically, there needs to be a hard demarcation between professional athletics, as a career path for talented young people, and school sports. adults involved in the former have to be strictly vetted and controlled through some national association, which would also involve rotating people around from school to school, to prevent long running scandals like this from festering
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RaySmuckles posted:you have no idea what its like for various people in situations different from your own. just absolutely no clue. You don't know more about it than I do
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rudatron posted:basically, there needs to be a hard demarcation between professional athletics, as a career path for talented young people, and school sports. adults involved in the former have to be strictly vetted and controlled through some national association, which would also involve rotating people around from school to school, to prevent long running scandals like this from festering There'd definitely be some pushback to this because coaches are considered so characteristic of a team. Even moreso than the players themselves
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yeah, and that's exactly the problem. scandals get ignored because winning competitions is more important than the safety of the players, and a bad coach that 'gets results' (or appears to get results) is valuable, in that competition for prestige. So issues get sidelined/ignored players also know that their future success (in what many hope to be their career) depends on their coach being favorable to them, and that dependency also gets exploited.
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wait wait wait, american school sports have competitions?
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holy poo poo you have sports leagues for high schools. what the dicking gently caress guys? why would you do that?
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