Penn state students - calling RU players N-word
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The problem is that this behavior is tolerated. They will simply take enough steps to show critics they’ve done something to address. They’re not going to try to address it, rather they just want credit for having done so. Politics 101.
Hoping Jerry Carino steps up and reports this horrible hateful behavior as evidenced by the memo to students as his proof that such behavior did occur last night.
Buncha white bread eatin’, mayo slatherin’ jabronis
I have left the RAC embarrassed by our fans yelling at visiting opponents unprovoked as they leave. As a whole our fans are great. Individually we may have a few bad apples.
Lot of faux outrage going on here. It’s ok for the N word to be said in very creative ways daily on the CE board. Nothing is said and there is no outrage.
False. What Piss State did last night was 100x more reprehensible than any alleged booing at the RAC. His South Orange Community College bias shines through on this one.
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I was recruited by a school in Wisconsin, and on my visit it was damn cold and very white (I came from an extremely diverse community in NJ). I knew about 5 minutes into my official that I did not want to go to school in that state.
I think the police involvement was for the object(s) hurled at the RU players not the language but I could be mistaken.
He definitely won’t.
Much easier for him to create an article about fake boos from Rutgers fans.
Lol police are not involved because students said a bad word
We have freedom of speech.
Just call these students pieces of shit and move on.
So what did the retracted/deleted tweet by Carino say, @Knight Shift ?
Several things:
- if they can identify who threw things at the players and uttered slurs, those people should be banned for life from the arena
- why is the student section behind the opposing bench? That is just provoking bad behavior
- the “official statement” from the school VP is very informally written. Almost unprofessional for the subject matter being discussed.
It is not from a school official. It's the VP of a club similar to the riot squad.
Meanwhile, PSU has an African American head coach and a team full of African American players. Further proof that they are the bottom of the gene pool and not the brightest bulbs on the tree. And they wonder why they are universally despised!
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You clearly don't watch the games, most of the student sections in the conference are situated them same as PSU. There have not been issues at other road games.
Also, the letter wasn't from the school...lol.
What does the government have to do with this?
Because it's not a school official, it's a student leader of the organization (Legion of Blue) doing his/her part to address the membership and denounce the behavior.
Looks that way, yes. The police can't do anything about people dropping f-bombs or n-words as neither is against the law.
No - the visiting fans sit behind the visitor bench, with the students around them. PSU only place in the B1G I’ve seen where the visiting fans are pushed a section over into the endzone, and students are directly 1 row behind the visiting bench
There was one troglodyte in a white cap with sunglasses, wearing XXXL Walmart sweatpants behind the Rutgers bench, wasn’t even watching the game. It was screaming at the bench players every time I saw it on camera in the first half. The odd thing was that the seat was empty for the first nine minutes of the second half?
The specific fans who threw stuff should be identified and, ideally, arrested. Plus banned from the arena. Probably easier said than done. But it would be great if it happened.
If I were running PSU athletics, I try hard to identify the specific fans involved in yelling abusive and/or racist invective, report them to the school admin, and ban them from attending all school sports events.
It's a little sad to see some of our fans here on the forum use the bad behavior of an apparently relative few out at PSU as an excuse to denounce everybody at PSU. I have a number of friends and acquaintances who attended PSU for some part of the schooling and none of them would ever tolerate child abuse or racism/bigotry.
It seems simple to condemn the specific people who behave wrongly while not condemning everybody else. Yet for whatever reason, it seems an impossible task for some people who prefer to paint condemnation with a very broad brush (a behavior that ironically is part of the evil of racism and bigotry).
If I were running PSU athletics, I try hard to identify the specific fans involved in yelling abusive and/or racist invective, report them to the school admin, and ban them from attending all school sports events.
It's a little sad to see some of our fans here on the forum use the bad behavior of an apparently relative few out at PSU as an excuse to denounce everybody at PSU. I have a number of friends and acquaintances who attended PSU for some part of the schooling and none of them would ever tolerate child abuse or racism/bigotry.
It seems simple to condemn the specific people who behave wrongly while not condemning everybody else. Yet for whatever reason, it seems an impossible task for some people who prefer to paint condemnation with a very broad brush (a behavior that ironically is part of the evil of racism and bigotry).
I’ll admit I had to look up troglodyte…lol. I need to use this.
Not necessarily true. The girl who got kicked out of Kentucky was arrested and charged with Assault for dropping n-bombs and being verbally abusive
Can't remember the exact words, but he said that he was doing his own "investigation" into the matter. Guess the tweet about the police warning was not enough for Chief of the Rutgers Booing Police?
I recall years ago when we first joined the B1G, and not in 2014, but in 2016, when Michigan had a very lively tailgate scene going at Rutgers, he was very snarky about it and said something like, "This is all you need to know about Rutgers fan support" or some crap like that. Guy shows his true colors enough but every now and then he will throw RU a bone. He's a poor man's Politi?
Looks like Carino addresses it right here:
"The message also cited racist language but a member of Rutgers’ traveling party who sat on the court, when reached late Sunday night by USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey, said he did not hear any racist taunts amid what he described as a stream of vulgarities that were showered upon the team throughout the game."
Funny how he believes a Rutgers' traveling party member on THIS, but there were at least 10 people in the stands for Michigan who tweeted in reply to him that they did not hear fans booing Rutgers, and he dismissed them all as 'revisionist history.'
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I'm not sure how you could state that "most" parents and students from NJ chose to go there for its lack of diversity. Was there a poll you can point to about it? A study?
Without actual data, how could you possibly know what most parents and students in NJ who attend PSU are thinking? I know a bunch of people who went to PSU and not a single one of them are anti-diversity (they are diverse themselves).
While it's obvious there is still way too much racism/bigotry in our country (and the rest of the world), I don't think employing broad stereotypes is a particularly wise approach to combating it.
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This is, of course, true. I think there’s perhaps a little schadenfreude at play here for a couple reasons. First, it’s PSU and we hate them. Second, when the PSU football team came to Piscataway after the Sandusky stuff came to light, a few bad apples in the Rutgers fan base caused the PSU crowd to paint all RU fans with a broad brush, even prompting an apology letter from the RU AD at the time (Hermann).
I'm not familiar with that situation. However, I suspect she was not arrested for the racist words she spoke so much as other stuff she may have said which contained threats of violence, or promoted violence, or in some other way created a situation that was dangerous for herself or others at the scene (e.g. inciting violence).
Pretty sure it's not illegal to say any words in this country in general. Although there are some exceptions in contexts where certain words or phrases can be seen as dangerously disruptive (e.g. yelling "bomb" in an airport or "fire" in a movie theater).
Why shouldn't they get booted for using the N-word.. especially like that.. directed and hateful at specific persons.. it is assault with words. m Sure.. give them a chance to defend themselves and then decide if they might ever do it again. Who needs those people on a college campus.. a place of learning.
Almost as casually as penn state fans use the N word. Which one bother you more?
Where did I say anything about the government?
People are implying that the police were involved because of the language they used. Saying the N word isn’t illegal. It just makes you a piece of shit…
Well this thread is a trainwreck haha.
Any update from Penn State on all this?
Any update from Penn State on all this?
Painting an entire state as racist, the way that poster did, is stupid and ignorant for the same reasons racism is stupid and ignorant.
Probably because that’s an insanely slippery slope and it’s not even an illegal act?
Or would that only be a rule for white people? Or only for a specific context? Or is rap music going to be banned from college campuses as well?
“Assault with words” lol
