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    Reggie Johnson and free speech

    From the front page, Reggie Johnson, the Miami center, is featured in a video in which he says:

    "Being from there [Winston-Salem], either you liked Carolina or you hated Duke."

    This isn't a great choice, from a Duke fan''s perspective. The choices aren't quite the same, though, since I think Johnson is making an implicit assumption (growing up in W-S = Wake fan) as well as a couple of corollaries (liking Wake = disliking Duke, which seems reasonable enough OR liking Wake = also liking carolina, which is--at least on the surface--nonsensical or at least lacking in face validity). Alternatively, liking Wake is one option in W-s (which means disliking Duke) but another option is liking Carolina (and, therefore, disliking Duke) or possibly it means a W-S childhood leads inexorably to an affirmative point of view (liking Carolina and presumable liking or even loving Wake Forest but having no particular opinion about Duke) OR to a profound nihilism (hating Duke and everything else) OR maybe a churlish but focused pessimism (hating Duke but having a range of opinions about other schools). Hmmm.

    Johnson, who seemed very pleasant throughout, did conclude by saying, "it's over and done, and I respect them [Duke] like nothing else." I appreciate the shift in perspective and might attribute it to the tolerant wisdom gleaned from his college experience--both from the give-and-take in the classroom and from breathing in the humid, tangled cultural overgrowth of southern Florida)--but then I should think he'd be more likely to respect Miami like nothing else rather than an opposing team/school.

    But perhaps I should go back to work.
    Last edited by johnb; 10-19-2012 at 01:59 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by johnb View Post
    From the front page, Reggie Johnson, the Miami center, is featured in a video in which he says:

    "Being from there [Winston-Salem], either you liked Carolina or you hated Duke." ...
    I think he was having trouble articulating. In essence, he was stating that he was amphibious about Duke.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BD80 View Post
    I think he was having trouble articulating. In essence, he was stating that he was amphibious about Duke.
    Well, you do know that Winston-Salem is not that far from Hickory...

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