Ohio paper takes down column after complaints

[Alma]

I don';t think it's well-written, and I don't think taunting a student section is necessarily a bad thing. I don't think helping a kid up is necessarily a requisite to go to heaven.

No, of course not. But calling a Christian institution on its shirtty behavior shouldn't be verboten either.

 

[Ace]

No, of course not. But calling a Christian institution on its shirtty behavior shouldn't be verboten either.

No. But if it's shirtty enough to call out, call it out. You lose me when you point out what little angels your boys are.

 

[Alma]

No. But if it's shirtty enough to call out, call it out. You lose me when you point out what little angels your boys are.

Agreed. It was a very confused column. I think it came from an emotional, not analytical place.

And when you take that shot, it has to be sober.

 

[cisforkoke]

No player should ever help up an opponent. Whichever school did not help up the opponent is in the right.

 

[HanSenSE]

Then there was this guy:

Twitter attack follows reporter's comment about hoops fans

 

[Doc Holliday]

Sorry but the gripe here is all wrong as are most of the comments.

This type of column, about high school sports and the athletes, doesn't belong anywhere in print. You don't criticize high school kids, their players, their student body, their religion or lack of it, their money or their lack of it. They're not even adults yet. They're kids. This is all wrong on so many levels.

Can't believe some of you guys don't see the obvious in all this.

 

[Alma]

Sorry but the gripe here is all wrong as are most of the comments.

This type of column, about high school sports and the athletes, doesn't belong anywhere in print. You don't criticize high school kids, their players, their student body, their religion or lack of it, their money or their lack of it. They're not even adults yet. They're kids. This is all wrong on so many levels.

Can't believe some of you guys don't see the obvious in all this.

If a white student body chanted to a team full of Hispanic players "build that wall!" do you report it?

You damn well bet you do.

This is a little further down the trough, and, in a sense a lot trickier. But there's something to be said here, too. Private religious institutions have a habit of showing "tuition mercy" on surprisingly good athletes while keeping the student body number low enough to play in smaller classes. You know why? Because said institutions market their large number of state titles as a student life feature of attending the school.

And this, at its very core, is a bullshirt thing to do.

It's just a tricky topic because it gets at the core of Christian hypocrisy in America. We've privatized our faith to such a degree that we're deluded enough to think it should "work" for us.

 

[dixiehack]

If a white student body chanted to a team full of Hispanic players "build that wall!" do you report it?

You damn well bet you do.

This is a little further down the trough, and, in a sense a lot trickier. But there's something to be said here, too. Private religious institutions have a habit of showing "tuition mercy" on surprisingly good athletes while keeping the student body number low enough to play in smaller classes. You know why? Because said institutions market their large number of state titles as a student life feature of attending the school.

And this, at its very core, is a bullshirt thing to do.

It's just a tricky topic because it gets at the core of Christian hypocrisy in America. We've privatized our faith to such a degree that we're deluded enough to think it should "work" for us.

If that's what the guy thinks is happening, then go do some by-God reporting and prove it. Don't whine like a little homer bench in a column.

 

[SnarkShark]

If this guy had said this on Twitter, people would have blamed it on Twitter.

 

[studthug12]

If a white student body chanted to a team full of Hispanic players "build that wall!" do you report it?

If they don't come back with a "who's paying for it chant?" then that's their own fault