Technical Tidbits 12/2: No more shrub ripping. It’s time for us to check our privilege.

In case you haven’t heard, Georgia Tech’s thug football team committed the cardinal sin of collegiate athletics over the weekend by harming the hedges at UGA. Your mouth is probably agape at the sheer barbarism required to do such a horrible thing to a living and breathing organism, but have no fear: the PC train is here to save the day yet again. In all seriousness, these people have got to calm down. Did Tech’s players hurt a shrub that will grow back in three months? They sure did! Did UGA’s players rip up turf at Bobby Dodd Stadium a year ago? They sure did! Does it matter? It sure doesn’t! I have no issue with it being called disrespectful, because it is. That’s the point. The thing is that there’s this strange thing called “the world,” and it has this unique tendency to keep spinning like usual even when something disrespectful happens. Let’s take a look at some of the finer points from the argument.

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