Emory Frat Pressured To Give Back Intramural Volleyball Championship Trophy After Fans Chanted "USA" At Opposing Team Who Was Asian
April 27 2012
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Kmarko,
I believe the pussification of America has finally reached its pinnacle. We had our intramural volleyball championship gameon Tuesday night vs a bunch of Asians calling themselves KUSA. Throughout the match we started chanting USA! USA! and supposedly they took it as a hate crime and went to the IFC about it. Now we may have to give up the trophy for “alienating” our opponents. Would Love to hear your opinion on the matter as a fellow Emory Alum yourself.
-Simon
On Monday, April 24, the men’s intramural volleyball championship took place at the Woodruff P.E. Center between Beta Theta Pi and a team made up of predominantly Asian-American students. Each team had a number of fans cheering them on. In the middle of the second game, we heard the Beta fans cheering something. The meaning was not imminently clear for the first few seconds, but the racially-charged cheer soon struck us like a bolt of unwelcome, unrelenting lightning that rooted us to where we stood in shock. “USA! USA! USA!” cheered the Beta fans with their fists pumping in the air as they chanted again and again. Suddenly, our yellow skin, black hair and Asian heritage became the target of this subtle, yet jarring taunt. With each declaration, we felt more alienated. Suddenly, we weren’t Americans, born and raised, but “Others” who didn’t belong. It is difficult to explain the emotions that wash over you when you are subjected to such cruel and inconsiderate actions. What should you do? Do you yell back? Do you tell the intramural coordinator who is watching the game, listening to the same chant you are? Do you just take it and brush it off as a joke? In the few seconds we had to react, we joined them in their chant. “USA! USA!” we yelled back. We yelled not because we needed to retaliate, but because we wanted to let the Beta fans know how truly ignorant their cheer was. Most of us were born here in the United States, and our loyalties lie with the country that has given us so much. Gloria Kang pulled out an American flag from her bag and draped it across her shoulders. True American pride. Because that is who we are: we are Asian-Americans.
USA? Learn English? That’s what we’re talking about here? I’ve heard harder trash talk at an 8 year old’s rec league hoops game. I mean it’s sports bro. This is what happens. You get heckled. You want to shut them up you settle it on the court then hoist the championship trophy or in this case the $5 Emory IM Champion white t-shirt that was always 1 size too small above your head and tell them to go fuck themselves. Plus didn’t you have your own fans there? Couldn’t they chant back like “Be Smart” or “Learn Math” or “Don’t Pay For Your Friends”? Fight fire with fire. So you’re Asian. Big whoop. Just spike the ball down their throat and shut them up. I was in a Jewish frat how do you think that worked out during big IM games against rival frats? Oh yeah we just ran the table and took home the IM basketball championship in triple overtime in the most thrilling intramural game in Emory history. What’s up?
