jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:
Congratulations to you and Michael.
jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:
jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:Nah, no congrats in order for me. Just MS and the community he represents.
But I am sure this is all lost on you
jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:... the community he represents...
DavidGordonsFoot {l Wrote}:...The Rams' defensive line is stacked.
TobaccoRoadEagle {l Wrote}:
PS - to clarify, huang is calling you gay
jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:
And to AC's comments, its nice to see that BC's "phenomenal" education has churned out so many socially aware alums.
jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:The Sam event is a historic event that is similar to an athlete breaking the color barrier and should be respected at that same level.
jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:angrychicken {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:
And to AC's comments, its nice to see that BC's "phenomenal" education has churned out so many socially aware alums.
Ahhhh...now I see what the problem is here.
Again, look through other posts and you will realize that I took my talents to a University around the Cambridge area instead of BC.... So I have no clue where you view the problem as coming from?
jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:The Sam event is a historic event that is similar to an athlete breaking the color barrier and should be respected at that same level.
No it is not. Gay athletes were in the NFL before Michael Sam. There were no black players in MLB before Jackie Robinson (other than some dude from the 1880s).
Not openly Gay(acknowledged by the public as being gay), so therefore it is the same thing as Jackie Robinson...
Using your logic, then Jackie Robinson was not the first black baseball player as there are numerous players that were of mixed race but appeared to be white.....
jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:angrychicken {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:
And to AC's comments, its nice to see that BC's "phenomenal" education has churned out so many socially aware alums.
Ahhhh...now I see what the problem is here.
Again, look through other posts and you will realize that I took my talents to a University around the Cambridge area instead of BC.... So I have no clue where you view the problem as coming from?
You answered your own question. Both by paraphrasing that douche LeBron and by your popped collar douche reference to your choice of higher learning.
HAHAHA "douche higher learning" oh the irony
jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:angrychicken {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:
And to AC's comments, its nice to see that BC's "phenomenal" education has churned out so many socially aware alums.
Ahhhh...now I see what the problem is here.
Again, look through other posts and you will realize that I took my talents to a University around the Cambridge area instead of BC.... So I have no clue where you view the problem as coming from?
jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:The Sam event is a historic event that is similar to an athlete breaking the color barrier and should be respected at that same level.
No it is not. Gay athletes were in the NFL before Michael Sam. There were no black players in MLB before Jackie Robinson (other than some dude from the 1880s).
Not openly Gay(acknowledged by the public as being gay), so therefore it is the same thing as Jackie Robinson...
Using your logic, then Jackie Robinson was not the first black baseball player as there are numerous players that were of mixed race but appeared to be white.....
I'm not getting that deep into this debate, but it is not remotely close to being the same. Let's just say there is ZERO chance Michael Sam's number ends up retired in every stadium in football.
Agreed. It's not equivalent in scope as the gay community or lgbt or whatever are not segregated from the rest of society. All that I am saying is that it is similar in that it is a historic event that hopefully will aim to reduce one form of systematic oppression. Not trying to split hairs on whether or not this is LITERALLY the same thing as the Jackie Robinson event.
jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:The Sam event is a historic event that is similar to an athlete breaking the color barrier and should be respected at that same level.
No it is not. Gay athletes were in the NFL before Michael Sam. There were no black players in MLB before Jackie Robinson (other than some dude from the 1880s).
Not openly Gay(acknowledged by the public as being gay), so therefore it is the same thing as Jackie Robinson...
Using your logic, then Jackie Robinson was not the first black baseball player as there are numerous players that were of mixed race but appeared to be white.....
I'm not getting that deep into this debate, but it is not remotely close to being the same. Let's just say there is ZERO chance Michael Sam's number ends up retired in every stadium in football.
Agreed. It's not equivalent in scope as the gay community or lgbt or whatever are not segregated from the rest of society. All that I am saying is that it is similar in that it is a historic event that hopefully will aim to reduce one form of systematic oppression. Not trying to split hairs on whether or not this is LITERALLY the same thing as the Jackie Robinson event.
pick6pedro {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:The Sam event is a historic event that is similar to an athlete breaking the color barrier and should be respected at that same level.
No it is not. Gay athletes were in the NFL before Michael Sam. There were no black players in MLB before Jackie Robinson (other than some dude from the 1880s).
Not openly Gay(acknowledged by the public as being gay), so therefore it is the same thing as Jackie Robinson...
Using your logic, then Jackie Robinson was not the first black baseball player as there are numerous players that were of mixed race but appeared to be white.....
I'm not getting that deep into this debate, but it is not remotely close to being the same. Let's just say there is ZERO chance Michael Sam's number ends up retired in every stadium in football.
Agreed. It's not equivalent in scope as the gay community or lgbt or whatever are not segregated from the rest of society. All that I am saying is that it is similar in that it is a historic event that hopefully will aim to reduce one form of systematic oppression. Not trying to split hairs on whether or not this is LITERALLY the same thing as the Jackie Robinson event.
Gays were systematically opressed from jobs in the NFL? news to me.
jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:The Sam event is a historic event that is similar to an athlete breaking the color barrier and should be respected at that same level.
No it is not. Gay athletes were in the NFL before Michael Sam. There were no black players in MLB before Jackie Robinson (other than some dude from the 1880s).
Not openly Gay(acknowledged by the public as being gay), so therefore it is the same thing as Jackie Robinson...
Using your logic, then Jackie Robinson was not the first black baseball player as there are numerous players that were of mixed race but appeared to be white.....
I'm not getting that deep into this debate, but it is not remotely close to being the same. Let's just say there is ZERO chance Michael Sam's number ends up retired in every stadium in football.
Agreed. It's not equivalent in scope as the gay community or lgbt or whatever are not segregated from the rest of society. All that I am saying is that it is similar in that it is a historic event that hopefully will aim to reduce one form of systematic oppression. Not trying to split hairs on whether or not this is LITERALLY the same thing as the Jackie Robinson event.
The definitions of "oppression" have changed dramatically in the past 70 years.
The definition of almost every word changes through out time. Just because it has changed doesn't mean that it has vanished and is no longer a problem.
jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:Dick Rosenthal {l Wrote}:Here's the thing. I have watched the NFL Draft for years and I can't remember another draftee making out with his girlfriend at the news of being drafted. and that is the problem with Mos. All we ever hear is that "we're just like everyone else and we should be treated with dignity" and then they subject us to incessant PDAs and their "Gay Pride Parades" which involve every variety of freak show personality engaging in simulated and real sex acts in broad day light. Fuck them.
Also, I look forward to the gnashing of teeth and rending of garments that will occur when this slow, weak, undersized 7th rounder is unceremoniously cut in August. Maybe he can hang out with Jason Collins and they can talk about what it is like to be gay and awful at their respective professions.
Greg Louganis has got to be livid at this point "HELLO PEOPLE! I am gay, have AIDS and was actually good at my sport! Where's the love?" Of course, Magic Johnson and Isaiah Thomas will always be my two favorite openly gay professional athletes.
PDA at gay pride parades is a bit much in my personal (heterosexual) opinion. The rest of this post is complete horseshit and idiocy, not to mention that gay pride parades have nothing to do with an athlete who was drafted kissing his girlfriend. I am SURE that I can find a link of a player being drafted into the nfl kissing his girlfriend... In five seconds of searching I found an NBA player televised kissing his GF.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08rirsA8YaM
Dick Rosenthal {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:Dick Rosenthal {l Wrote}:Here's the thing. I have watched the NFL Draft for years and I can't remember another draftee making out with his girlfriend at the news of being drafted. and that is the problem with Mos. All we ever hear is that "we're just like everyone else and we should be treated with dignity" and then they subject us to incessant PDAs and their "Gay Pride Parades" which involve every variety of freak show personality engaging in simulated and real sex acts in broad day light. Fuck them.
Also, I look forward to the gnashing of teeth and rending of garments that will occur when this slow, weak, undersized 7th rounder is unceremoniously cut in August. Maybe he can hang out with Jason Collins and they can talk about what it is like to be gay and awful at their respective professions.
Greg Louganis has got to be livid at this point "HELLO PEOPLE! I am gay, have AIDS and was actually good at my sport! Where's the love?" Of course, Magic Johnson and Isaiah Thomas will always be my two favorite openly gay professional athletes.
PDA at gay pride parades is a bit much in my personal (heterosexual) opinion. The rest of this post is complete horseshit and idiocy, not to mention that gay pride parades have nothing to do with an athlete who was drafted kissing his girlfriend. I am SURE that I can find a link of a player being drafted into the nfl kissing his girlfriend... In five seconds of searching I found an NBA player televised kissing his GF.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08rirsA8YaM
Idiocy, except for the fact that it is completely accurate and you acknowledged as much in your failure to mount even a modicum of an argument. But I don't care about that. I don't care if homos want to marry each other and root each other silly. Makes no difference to me. I'd just like them to stop trying get fisting taught during sex ed class and to be able to go back to using the term miserable 74 as an insult without being accused of being a klan member. The truth is, miserable 74 describes a personality type that simply can't be covered by jackbag or douchenozzle, etc. Take for example, higgi. At first I thought he was a half-literate docuhenozzle, then I though he was an empty headed jackbag, but now I think we can all agree he is miserable 74. Words are important.
jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:angrychicken {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:
And to AC's comments, its nice to see that BC's "phenomenal" education has churned out so many socially aware alums.
Ahhhh...now I see what the problem is here.
Again, look through other posts and you will realize that I took my talents to a University around the Cambridge area instead of BC.... So I have no clue where you view the problem as coming from?
jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:angrychicken {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:
And to AC's comments, its nice to see that BC's "phenomenal" education has churned out so many socially aware alums.
Ahhhh...now I see what the problem is here.
Again, look through other posts and you will realize that I took my talents to a University around the Cambridge area instead of BC.... So I have no clue where you view the problem as coming from?
2001Eagle {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:angrychicken {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:
And to AC's comments, its nice to see that BC's "phenomenal" education has churned out so many socially aware alums.
Ahhhh...now I see what the problem is here.
Again, look through other posts and you will realize that I took my talents to a University around the Cambridge area instead of BC.... So I have no clue where you view the problem as coming from?
Congrats! Did you know Sean? or Will?
twballgame9 {l Wrote}:2001Eagle {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:angrychicken {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:
And to AC's comments, its nice to see that BC's "phenomenal" education has churned out so many socially aware alums.
Ahhhh...now I see what the problem is here.
Again, look through other posts and you will realize that I took my talents to a University around the Cambridge area instead of BC.... So I have no clue where you view the problem as coming from?
Congrats! Did you know Sean? or Will?
Point of order, that's in Boston. But funny nonetheless.
jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:The Sam event is a historic event that is similar to an athlete breaking the color barrier and should be respected at that same level.
No it is not. Gay athletes were in the NFL before Michael Sam. There were no black players in MLB before Jackie Robinson (other than some dude from the 1880s).
Not openly Gay(acknowledged by the public as being gay), so therefore it is the same thing as Jackie Robinson...
Using your logic, then Jackie Robinson was not the first black baseball player as there are numerous players that were of mixed race but appeared to be white.....
I'm not getting that deep into this debate, but it is not remotely close to being the same. Let's just say there is ZERO chance Michael Sam's number ends up retired in every stadium in football.
Agreed. It's not equivalent in scope as the gay community or lgbt or whatever are not segregated from the rest of society. All that I am saying is that it is similar in that it is a historic event that hopefully will aim to reduce one form of systematic oppression. Not trying to split hairs on whether or not this is LITERALLY the same thing as the Jackie Robinson event.
The definitions of "oppression" have changed dramatically in the past 70 years.
The definition of almost every word changes through out time. Just because it has changed doesn't mean that it has vanished and is no longer a problem.
Yes, but this change means that oppression for Michael Sam doesn't mean not being able to eat or piss anywhere in half of the country. Those differences in definition, when combined with the fact that everyone knows that there are already many gay players in the locker room, are why his situation isn't remotely in the ballpark of that of Jackie Robinson.
completely disagree. Everything is relative, so while the oppression gays experience today does not literally compare to the levels of oppression seen 70 years ago, relatively speaking to the oppression other groups face throughout society the gays are still extremely oppressed. Because everything is relative the Sam event is in the ballpark of the Jackie Robinson event, just not to the same extent of the Robinson event.
There are many other reasons why Robinson's event was more impressive, but make no mistake, the Sam event is in the same realm.
jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:
There are many other reasons why Robinson's event was more impressive, but make no mistake, the Sam event is in the same realm.
2001Eagle {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:2001Eagle {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:angrychicken {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:
And to AC's comments, its nice to see that BC's "phenomenal" education has churned out so many socially aware alums.
Ahhhh...now I see what the problem is here.
Again, look through other posts and you will realize that I took my talents to a University around the Cambridge area instead of BC.... So I have no clue where you view the problem as coming from?
Congrats! Did you know Sean? or Will?
Point of order, that's in Boston. But funny nonetheless.
Demurrer: he said "around the Cambridge area." BHCC definitely qualifies.
jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:The Sam event is a historic event that is similar to an athlete breaking the color barrier and should be respected at that same level.
No it is not. Gay athletes were in the NFL before Michael Sam. There were no black players in MLB before Jackie Robinson (other than some dude from the 1880s).
Not openly Gay(acknowledged by the public as being gay), so therefore it is the same thing as Jackie Robinson...
Using your logic, then Jackie Robinson was not the first black baseball player as there are numerous players that were of mixed race but appeared to be white.....
I'm not getting that deep into this debate, but it is not remotely close to being the same. Let's just say there is ZERO chance Michael Sam's number ends up retired in every stadium in football.
Agreed. It's not equivalent in scope as the gay community or lgbt or whatever are not segregated from the rest of society. All that I am saying is that it is similar in that it is a historic event that hopefully will aim to reduce one form of systematic oppression. Not trying to split hairs on whether or not this is LITERALLY the same thing as the Jackie Robinson event.
The definitions of "oppression" have changed dramatically in the past 70 years.
The definition of almost every word changes through out time. Just because it has changed doesn't mean that it has vanished and is no longer a problem.
Yes, but this change means that oppression for Michael Sam doesn't mean not being able to eat or piss anywhere in half of the country. Those differences in definition, when combined with the fact that everyone knows that there are already many gay players in the locker room, are why his situation isn't remotely in the ballpark of that of Jackie Robinson.
completely disagree. Everything is relative, so while the oppression gays experience today does not literally compare to the levels of oppression seen 70 years ago, relatively speaking to the oppression other groups face throughout society the gays are still extremely oppressed. Because everything is relative the Sam event is in the ballpark of the Jackie Robinson event, just not to the same extent of the Robinson event.
There are many other reasons why Robinson's event was more impressive, but make no mistake, the Sam event is in the same realm.
jhiggi02 {l Wrote}:angrychicken {l Wrote}:TobaccoRoadEagle {l Wrote}:
PS - to clarify, huang is calling you gay
I'm not calling him anything. I'm just trying to figure out why he thinks that Michael Sam was "ripped" (his word) here. All I see is a lame joke about Sam's gayness and a couple of other little shots. Nobody really made a statement for or against the fact that Sam is an openly gay football player. I feel like jhiggi is making overly broad accusations about the people that post here, and I feel like it is my duty to stand up for the community that I represent. His statements reek of the pot painting the kettle in the glass house a hypocrite.
p.s. - tre is not calling you gay, as he is sensitive to the subject (his brother, Ping Jang, has been known to dabble)
I view the little gay jokes and few shots that you reference as Sam being ripped. Not only is it not funny, nor original to rip on Sam for being gay, I think that it is also inappropriate due to the significance of this event.
In no way, shape or form am I being hypocritical, I am just saying that I am disappointed in the ignorance displayed by some posters here.
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