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<blockquote data-quote="jojatk" data-source="post: 543134" data-attributes="member: 2627"><p>Let me address the second point first by saying my point is not about individual posters and what they say on a specific message board. We actually agree on the impact of what one poster says. I seriously doubt that kids are coming to this, or any other board, and perusing what's said. I think there's the occasional parent who does that but not in any large numbers. What I'm talking about is that what's said here is representative of the narratives that are out there that we (not the "we here on this message board" but more the "we the GT fanbase") help perpetuate with the way we are viewed. We are viewed in certain ways because there are lots of other fanbases out there that think of us similarly to how we characterize UVA fans, for example. And many of those people are mentors or friends or other people that kids do get influenced by.</p><p></p><p>On the first point I don't think your question actually goes to establishing any consistency because I don't think the two things you are trying to connect are actually connected. I don't think there's a relationship between ribbing other fan bases and being demeaning to groups of athletes. I think those are two completely different topics. Now if you ask, instead, what my philosophy is on seriously characterizing all UGA fans as uneducated jackholes then there's some connectivity between that and my philosophy of labeling all athletes with negative stereotypes. And I go a long way towards trying to tell people, for example, that as much as we talk down about other schools that it is possible to get a fantastic education at most colleges and the fact that a kid who says "Academics are important to me" can actually be serious about that and NOT choose GT over some other school, even one perceived as a factory, and still focus on his education. BTW my philosophy on seriously characterizing all UGA fans as uneducated jackholes is that it does offend me and I don't do that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jojatk, post: 543134, member: 2627"] Let me address the second point first by saying my point is not about individual posters and what they say on a specific message board. We actually agree on the impact of what one poster says. I seriously doubt that kids are coming to this, or any other board, and perusing what's said. I think there's the occasional parent who does that but not in any large numbers. What I'm talking about is that what's said here is representative of the narratives that are out there that we (not the "we here on this message board" but more the "we the GT fanbase") help perpetuate with the way we are viewed. We are viewed in certain ways because there are lots of other fanbases out there that think of us similarly to how we characterize UVA fans, for example. And many of those people are mentors or friends or other people that kids do get influenced by. On the first point I don't think your question actually goes to establishing any consistency because I don't think the two things you are trying to connect are actually connected. I don't think there's a relationship between ribbing other fan bases and being demeaning to groups of athletes. I think those are two completely different topics. Now if you ask, instead, what my philosophy is on seriously characterizing all UGA fans as uneducated jackholes then there's some connectivity between that and my philosophy of labeling all athletes with negative stereotypes. And I go a long way towards trying to tell people, for example, that as much as we talk down about other schools that it is possible to get a fantastic education at most colleges and the fact that a kid who says "Academics are important to me" can actually be serious about that and NOT choose GT over some other school, even one perceived as a factory, and still focus on his education. BTW my philosophy on seriously characterizing all UGA fans as uneducated jackholes is that it does offend me and I don't do that. [/QUOTE]
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