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PC Insanity Run Amok, Amok, Amok
First, kudos to you if you caught the reference to one of the great Halloween movies. Second, let’s talk about the latest installment of PC insanity now happening at Wisconsin high schools across the state.
In what many are panning as ludicrous, the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) has come out with a list of words/chants/actions that they have decided are both offensive and disrespectful to other students, players, and officials during athletic events.
Here are just a few of my favorites … but will give you the link so you can chose your own top five.
- Singing the song “Na-Na-Na-Na/Na-Na-Na-Na/Hey-hey/Goodbye.”
- “Booing of any kind” (keep in mind, this is at sporting events).
- “Push it, push it, push it” (someone better notify Salt-N-Pepa).
- Waving arms or making movements or sudden noises in an attempt to distract an opponent” (Yes, you read that correctly; The Wave = Bad).
- Chanting “U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A.”
One article asks what exactly was the goal here from the WIAA and was it to ruin competitiveness in sports? Included in the article is that a three-sport high school athlete was suspended from five games after tweeting her thoughts on the rules emailed to students in December.
I was curious how the guidelines could be applied to playing songs like “We Will Rock You” or “We Are the Champions,” but the WIAA did not respond to a request for comment.
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Has anyone considered that this isn’t an attack on competitiveness, because it has nothing to do with the athletes? This is about ruining the experience for the spectators. It’s about driving you out of the stands.
The appropriate response is not to abandon the arena. That’s what they want. The correct response is civil disobedience.
The idea of doing The Wave as an act of civil disobedience tickles me to no end. It’s fun and it makes the officials angry. What a combination!
I highly doubt that that’s the goal. The goal is probably to cause less drunken fights or something of that ilk. I can assure that the measure will be completely ineffective.
Demosthenes! Demosthenes!
The Peloponnesian War!
X Squared! Y Squared!
H2SO4!
Our basketball team was better than out cheers. Also, the seniors passed out kazoos to the crowds. It was really stupid and obnoxious. And fun. Sooooooo much fun.
Golf claps only, people.
From grade school:
Rah rah ree!
Kick ’em in the knee!
Ra Ra Rass….
Kick ’em in the other knee!
Every single school should simply ignore the rules. Throw the emails in the trash and change nothing.
Chewing tobacco, chewing tobacco
Spit, spit, spit
We think your team plays like …
Shift to the left, shift to the right
Stand up, sit down, Fight! Fight! Fight!
Bring a candlestick.
And lets not hurt anybodies feelings by keeping score!
Probably not such a good idea:
Gee, wonder what they’d make of our cheers:
“What do we want?”
“BLOOD!”
“When do we want it?”
“NOW!”
or
“That’s allright…That’s OK….You’re gonna work for us someday!”
or
“A rope, a tree, hang the referee!”
Perhaps they could import some cheers from my college days at Ga Tech-no focus on competition, but a theme the left supports:
Differential y
Differential x
The h!@$ with differentials
We want sex!
Ra, Ra, Rey, Rey
Whaddya get on your SATs?
You’re stupid. You’re stupid.
That’s all right, that’s ok
You’re going to work for us some day
tangent secant cosine sine
three point one four one five nine
I think I will have my kids skip college and go into the trades…
We had the UGLY chant too. One of the best ones was:
“2 stars 4 stars 6 stars a comet
all for (insert other school name) stand up and vomit”
At my MED school graduation, when the Liberal Arts College went up for their degrees, the Business School started chanting,
“That’s alright, that’s okay, you’re gonna work for us some day“
Some schools still got it….
We did U-G-L-Y you ain’t got no alibi you’re ugly, you’re ugly
followed by
M-A-M-A that is how you got that way your MAMA, your MAMA
Then, I suppose the “Gimme an ‘E’! Gimme and ‘X’, … Ex-Lax! Go, go, go!” is way out of bounds.
As would be, “Rah, rah, ree! Kick ’em in the knee! Rah, rah, rass! Kick ’em in the OTHER knee!”.
One of the things they banned was shirtless or body painted fans except for outdoor events. Presumably women are not allowed to be shirtless even at outdoor events. Can you believe the sexism on display here?
Tom Lehrer from many years ago:
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I find it entirely fascinating how Puritanism has been embraced by the Progressive left. When I was coming of age in the eighties and then when I was in college in the nineties, Puritanism was denounced as restrictive and limiting by the left. Now we’ve come full circle. The left wants to restrict what we say, what we do, and how it gets done. We have to adhere to their strict dogmatic moral standards that are acceptably inclusive. Heck, Progressive Puritanism even comes with its own witch hunts. This can’t end well.
Side note: Whenever I hear the Gary Glitter thing at any sports event, this is the music that comes to my mind …
Ironically and hypocritically, it often seems to be puritanism expressed with a foul mouth.
True, at least the original Puritans had the decency to attempt to follow the rules they imposed on others.
We had this one, too, but it went
Chewing, tobacco, chewing tobacco, chewing tobacco, spit
If you ain’t from Monaca, you ain’t worth (COC)!
Banning booing is ridiculous enough, but their rationale for banning booing is off the charts:
Apart from the logical non sequitur, we are not even allowed to disapprove of mistakes, fouls, or cheating committed by players or officials. We must silently accept all wrongs.
And as for chanting, it’s not just U-S-A that’s banned. Look how they categorize it:
There are some head-scratchers in there. But there are also sensible entries that are right in line with traditional sportsmanship. It’s not beyond salvage.
That’s not offensive though because it’s true.
Are there a lot of drunken fights during Wisconsin high school sports events?
Seems to me the smart safe thing is to eliminate school athletic programs from public school systems. Not sure how I feel about my taxpayer money going into a bunch of kids playing games anyway.