LETTER: Disagreement is not disloyalty

To the editor:

I love Aggie basketball. I don’t attend as many as I would like, but I do love the crowd, the games, the players and the fans.

What I don’t like is the assumption that if you are going to be a “true loyal Aggie Fan” you have to agree with everybody who shouts negative comments at the games. I don’t see why people who don’t like the comments are perceived as traitorous, disloyal, contemptible losers.

I find the idea of publicly singling people out and attacking them for their views as a mob mentality. Please, enjoy your chants and jeers at the other teams, if you like. But I ask you to think that if just because someone expresses their opinion to the contrary of what you think, does that mean that you have the full right to publicly attack them.

Don’t say anybody is less blue because they don’t like the chants at the basketball game. How many choir concerts, band and orchestra concerts, club sports, debates, lectures, symposiums, workshops, etc do we miss, or really don’t want to go to? How much money to we voluntarily give to support this university?

Don’t question somebody’s loyalty just because they don’t like what you’re saying in the Spectrum. You have no right. None of us do.

Daniel Allred