Reply #10: no, [View All]

my point was that kids do stupid things when athletics are involved. There is a veritable tradition of the fans of weaker teams (and Duke) basically being assholes to visiting teams that are likely to beat them. I've had just about every insult possible hurled at me on the court in high school, racial, ethnic, religious, sexual and others. some were actually clever, most were stupid and banal. It's abusive, certainly, but as long as it's limited to words, then it just makes the school look classless, nothing else. The teams basically ignore it, or use it to motivate themselves.

Hey, we live in a world where racist stereotypes are held up as mascots of professional sports teams, what do we expect?