Event with 30,0000 HS students in Detroit.

[PayneTrain]

Originally Posted by Cory

Wow, I'm impressed that you felt so passionately about Adam's joke that you created an account and made your first post to defend Detroit so vehemently.

The brain cell death toll from this thread is incalculable.

[HurdFIRST]

Originally Posted by Cory

Wow, I'm impressed that you felt so passionately about Adam's joke that you created an account and made your first post to defend Detroit so vehemently.

It's not a joke to the people who live there, the people who can't afford to move to the "nice" and "safe" Detroit neighborhoods, and it's not a joke to the families of the 333 dead bodies. There's 17 FIRST teams in Detroit and every time you make the city your punchline, you make those kids your punchline! Do you think they're stupid? Do you they can't read what you have to say about them and their city?

OOPS! *eye roll emoji* *winky tongue out emoji* Guess I got a little too serious for Chief Delphi's Gracious Professionalism playground! Guess I should stick to announcing and not commenting on perpetuated ignorance! *Cartwheels*

I haven't heard the end of this BS since the Michigan State Championship. I was sick of it then and it's only gotten worse since. Seeing memes on twitter, eavesdropping on conversations at IRI, reading through threads on here that ooze with ignorance. I'm done biting my tongue. Someone's gotta speak up, so why not the man with the microphone?

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by HurdFIRST

It's not a joke to the people who live there, the people who can't afford to move to the "nice" and "safe" Detroit neighborhoods, and it's not a joke to the families of the 333 dead bodies. There's 17 FIRST teams in Detroit and every time you make the city your punchline, you make those kids your punchline! Do you think they're stupid? Do you they can't read what you have to say about them and their city?

OOPS! *eye roll emoji* *winky tongue out emoji* Guess I got a little too serious for Chief Delphi's Gracious Professionalism playground! Guess I should stick to announcing and not commenting on perpetuated ignorance! *Cartwheels*

I haven't heard the end of this BS since the Michigan State Championship. I was sick of it then and it's only gotten worse since. Seeing memes on twitter, eavesdropping on conversations at IRI, reading through threads on here that ooze with ignorance. I'm done biting my tongue. Someone's gotta speak up, so why not the man with the microphone?

I applaud your conviction.

My original post was meant to be mocking the people who were scared of Detroit as a venue for champs. Obviously such things can be unclear in text.

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

I applaud your conviction.

My original post was meant to be mocking the people who were scared of Detroit as a venue for champs. Obviously such things can be unclear in text.

It was pretty clear.

[Karthik]

Since it's evident that people can't have a discussion about the city of Detroit without it devolving into histrionics about homicide victims and ad hominem attacks, I'm closing this thread. Take it to Reddit or another medium where people enjoy shouting at each other in dramatic fashion.

If people want to have a reasonable discussion about the location of the future FRC Championships, start a new thread and keep it civil.

And seriously, please don't try and use faceless murder victims in your arguments. Please.