Dobbs sign at Gameday - funny or mean?

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joevol33 said:
I noticed that, I hope he gets ticked off and runs all over them myself.
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I'm sure it sucks for a college kid trying to mingle with co-eds. But being the starting qb for Tennessee helps that and the fact of the old joke applies with ASTRO. Those that laugh at me now will be calling me boss later. :)
 
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You sure his eyebrows aren't just growing back? Hair returns and falls out at different times with his condition.
 
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With everything there is always a fine line that you should never cross. This is one of those times. Josh wont care though.
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
The chances that other teams fans know he has some disease are minuscule. Chill.
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Does it take much to google a subject? I mean it is 2016, even my 60 year old dad uses google. Or do they have Internet in the sh!t hole known as college station?
 
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TexasAggie12thMan said:
I'd call it more of a condition than a disability. I don't like the sign and would rather we stick to more clever insults, but some of you guys are acting like they are making an extra chromosome joke.
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You don't joke about your cheerleaders.
 
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Volsfaninva917 said:
Does it take much to google a subject? I mean it is 2016, even my 60 year old dad uses google. Or do they have Internet in the sh!t hole known as college station?
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When I was there, Internet hadn't reached the town yet. That was only a year ago.

But really, I don't think anyone knows and a bunch of college kids aren't going to look it up once the idea pops into their head. With the knowledge that he has an autoimmune disease I don't like the signs, but I for sure know the kids are too lazy to research that as its not something that easily crosses your mind.
 
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Its funny if you dont know that backstory. When my sister was in junior high she "trimmed" her eye-brows. It would have been funny if the sign had been about her.
 
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The Gameday people are suppose to screen all the signs that come up. Was definitely one they missed and very classless on that fan's part.
 
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Jesus guys it's not a disability unless every bald person in america is disabled. He looks better that way anyway. Hopefully it pisses Dobbs off.

And you can stop with the 6th grade jokes about Butches hair too...and Trump's (no I'm not a trump supporter). leave that stuff to the kindergarteners.
 
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IluvdoubleD's said:
Jesus guys it's not a disability unless every bald person in america is disabled. He looks better that way anyway. Hopefully it pisses Dobbs off.

And you can stop with the 6th grade jokes about Butches hair too...and Trump's (no I'm not a trump supporter). leave that stuff to the kindergarteners.
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Can we still make boob jokes? I'd say that's more at an 8th grade level.
 
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Did these tamu sign writers all gather in one frat house to make them this morning?
 
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Really surprised at the low blows I've seen by aTm fans on Twitter and at gameday. I know it's everywhere, but I've always held them to a different standard. Not anymore.
 
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Vfl2407 said:
Did these tamu sign writers all gather in one frat house to make them this morning?
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brain cells exploded overnight...took all of them to think of something so clever...now, time for the ***** slapping to begin...:):shaking2::yahoo:

GO VOLS!
 
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It's ridiculous how many of these signs are taking shots at Josh and his lack of hair. Pure classless.
 
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ThunderSK said:
The sensitivity level in America is off the charts...
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Well it's about respect, not sensitivity, but the hair jokes just mean you are not smart enough to come up with anything else. hair is a non issue, and it's not a disability. Making fun of someones hair really puts you at a very low level of thought process.
 
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Isn't "aggie" just another name for a cow turd? We got your back, Rocket Man! :rock: GBO!!!
 
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Tasteless humor has been around forever. But there's a special kind of conscience-free cruelty that happens when society tries to use "political correctness" to replace an ethical system ultimately based on individual accountability before a Higher Being.

People know they can weigh the choice whether to conform to political correctness, with limited fallout if they reject it. Their only dissuasion is public shaming from people they probably don't respect anyway.

The other ethical system (call it lower-case c christian) encourages treating every individual with the same respect (golden rule) irrespectively... whether they are disabled, wealthy, ignorant, or famous. IMHO it's healthier to believe you will stand accountable before a God who's motivated by an unchanging standard and love for every person, than to face a thousand arbitrary, usually anonymous, "fairness" judges in a mini-universe of social media.

But maybe those low brow signs were politically correct--it depends on how you profile Dobbs. Political correctness protects identity groups rather than individuals. And some identity groups are politically in-correct, so there's no call for treating those people nicely or respectfully.

If Dobbs is profiled as a victim (genetic disease, racial minority, compromised in appearance, generating dollars without receiving cash renumeration) then the eyebrow jokes are politically incorrect and thus, wrong.

But if the jokes were aimed at Dobbs as a member of the predatory ruling class (male, college football star, BMOC, and potential engineer for a defense contractor/arms dealer) then those jokes are politically correct and deserved.

It's complicated, but that's why political correctness is a hallmark of sophistication. It's incomprehensible to lowly rubes like us, clinging to our guns and Bibles.
 
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I'm sure Josh will find a Safe Space on the TAMU campus and hang out there until game time.

Whatever happened to "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will NEVER hurt me". Then proceed to go out there with xtra motivation and #wgwtfa!
 
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