I never said it was. I never attempted to defend bad behaviors. I said, despite the extreme actions some sports fans have taken, I'd never use them as evidence of sports fandom inherently breeding such behavior. I was alluding to the perception that geekdom somehow breeds bad behavior, simply because some geeks are assholes.Zhukov said:Thing is, "at least they don't start riots and kill people" isn't really a defense.
Do we know that they haven't? And even if they haven't, they routinely call for the death of those they hate.As someone else pointed out, the Westboro Baptist Church hasn't killed anybody either. Does that make them not awful?
Of course not, but I never implied such a thing.If I complain that I have a bad toothache and you reply "Well at least you aren't starving to death", does my toothache go away?
But if you say, "My last dentist botched my tooth extraction. Aren't dentists just the worst kind of people?", I think that's wrong.
That's all I was saying.