Recently we had the fake racial slurs that were supposedly from a BYU fan to a black volleyball player from Duke. Didn't happen.
Then there were the real slurs at Oregon against BYU. At least UO had the decency to apologize for the conduct of its fans.
But how can you justify a university's decision that can only be seen as an attack on an opponent school:
The University of Massachusetts is planning to hold a Pride Day on the same day that the Minutemen host evangelical Liberty in a football game.
The school made the “special announcement” Sunday on Twitter in a 37-second video featuring techno music and a uniformed player standing in a room lit by rainbow colors associated with the LGBTQ community. It ends showing how to get tickets for the Oct. 8 game.
Liberty, which started as a Baptist college under founder Jerry Falwell in 1971, has evolved into a conservative, evangelical university in Lynchburg, Virginia, that places restrictions on its students’ behavior, including monitoring behaviors in its male- and female-only residence halls.
Such poor taste. I guess sportsmanship isn't a thing anymore.
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And all that UO did was "apologize" for their rude fans. No consequences for their behavior, so the apology was virtue signaling. Idiots.
The BYU administration did the same thing, quick as lightning, when the accusations against the volleyball fans were still fresh. They quickly apologized first, without actually trying to figure out if what they were apologizing for really happened. They also, in an attempt to virtue signal and appease the race-mongers, banned FOR LIFE a fan (a mentally handicapped fellow, no less) who was accused by Duke players of using that forbidden word.
Of course, later on, they quietly un-banned this fellow.
BYU did kick the guy out, and then upon what seems to have been a thorough examination of audio and video and interviews with nearby people, they *openly* unbanned the guy and released their findings. I think BYU acted reasonably. I think UO did, too, really--apologies often include no consequences, but hopefully the contrition is real.
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