Racism in football

[Happinesstan]

25 minutes ago, nufcjmc said:

Idiots have always been here in society the difference is now the Internet is cheap and we all have smart phones and have free to join platforms like Instagram, twitter, FB etc that gives them a very big public voice to spout nonsense, it simply is a different world digitally from 20/30 years ago. 

It also gives you the platform to expose them.

[Abra Dubravka]

6 minutes ago, 54 said:

God to know you're a racist asshole.

Not actually racist, but howay. 
 

It’s an easy thing to say. Whatever makes you happy.

[Shearergol]

8 minutes ago, Abra Dubravka said:

I think anyone that sends a racist message to a lad in the street, or a Premier League football is scum. 

Imagine that though, a body of Rashford hanging??

 

Beckham..

 

Worst he got was his mural written across Shit Fucking Bastard- not even anything racist ??

 

 

Stop posting dude, you're making yourself look like a cunt 

[Disco]

So early in the day to be drawing false equivalences.

 

Remember kids, if you see someone getting assaulted tell them to grow up as 23 years ago someone else got hurt. 

[BlueStar]

Hate crimes are treated as more serious than other crimes because they have a wider and more detrimental effect on society.  If someone in your town gets beaten up because they had a row over a taxi rank, it primarily affects one person. But if they got beaten up because of who they are - because they're black, because they're gay, because they're Jewish, and you're one of the only other black/gay/jewish familes in that town, that serves as a real threat and a warning to you specifically that there are people who don't want you there and want to hurt you. And sometimes that's the intention - gangs of Nazis in Russia film their attacks on immigrants because they want them to go viral and make immigrants feel they shou;d leave Russia, or not move there.

 

Hanging an effigy of Beckham is abhorrent, but it's an attack on him alone.  Nobody called David, nobody who's white, nobody who's got a floppy hair-do is going to look at that and wonder if they're next, if the people who did that look at them the same way.  When the abuse is directed specifically at black players and is racist in nature, and directed at them because of their race, it has a wider effect than just telling someone you hate them because they screwed up on the pitch. It's all very well telling someone to get over personal criticism of themselves, but when abuse is racist it's also an attack on your parents, your brother, your kids. On hundreds of other people who can't just be told "Oh, you're a rich young footballer I'm sure you'll get over it" if that was even a reasonable response in the first place. 

[B-more Mag]

It's like everyone's forgetting the long history of actual lynchings of white football superstars. For shame. 

[Happinesstan]

12 hours ago, BlueStar said:

Hate crimes are treated as more serious than other crimes because they have a wider and more detrimental effect on society.  If someone in your town gets beaten up because they had a row over a taxi rank, it primarily affects one person. But if they got beaten up because of who they are - because they're black, because they're gay, because they're Jewish, and you're one of the only other black/gay/jewish familes in that town, that serves as a real threat and a warning to you specifically that there are people who don't want you there and want to hurt you. And sometimes that's the intention - gangs of Nazis in Russia film their attacks on immigrants because they want them to go viral and make immigrants feel they shou;d leave Russia, or not move there.

 

Hanging an effigy of Beckham is abhorrent, but it's an attack on him alone.  Nobody called David, nobody who's white, nobody who's got a floppy hair-do is going to look at that and wonder if they're next, if the people who did that look at them the same way.  When the abuse is directed specifically at black players and is racist in nature, and directed at them because of their race, it has a wider effect than just telling someone you hate them because they screwed up on the pitch. It's all very well telling someone to get over personal criticism of themselves, but when abuse is racist it's also an attack on your parents, your brother, your kids. On hundreds of other people who can't just be told "Oh, you're a rich young footballer I'm sure you'll get over it" if that was even a reasonable response in the first place. 

Great post. Just wanted to add it doesn't need to be the same people. In fact most of the time the identity will remain unknown so anybody could inspire that fear.

 

 

[Disco]

12 hours ago, B-more Mag said:

It's like everyone's forgetting the long history of actual lynchings of white football superstars. For shame. 

 

Sadly never came to fruition.

[Joey Linton]

 

 

 

[Disco]

 

[joeyt]

The Athletic deleted their tweet on it for some reason

 

 

 

[Chapo]

Textbook ‘endear yourself to your new clubs fans’ tactic. 

[Barnes23]

Was from a video from last year where he was essentially singing along to a rap track, apparently. 

[BlueStar]

4 hours ago, Barnes23 said:

Was from a video from last year where he was essentially singing along to a rap track, apparently. 

 

 

 

[Super Duper Branko Strupar]

 

[54]

 

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It wasn't the first time, nor the second, nor the third. Racism is normal in La Liga. The competition thinks it's normal, the Federation does too and the opponents encourage it. I'm so sorry. The championship that once belonged to Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Cristiano and Messi today belongs to racists. A beautiful nation, which welcomed me and which I love, but which agreed to export the image of a racist country to the world. I'm sorry for the Spaniards who don't agree, but today, in Brazil, Spain is known as a country of racists. And unfortunately, for everything that happens each week, I have no defense. I agree. But I am strong and I will go to the end against racists. Even if far from here.

 

[huss9]

1 minute ago, 54 said:

 

 

good on him.

[TRon]

On 17/07/2021 at 02:22, Disco said:

 

Sadly never came to fruition.

 

 

 

[Rafalove]

 

[The Prophet]

 

[huss9]

fucking hell. its as clear as day what they were shouting.

[54]

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How long are we going to experience, in the middle of the 21st century, episodes like the one we just witnessed, once again, in La Liga?

How long will humanity remain just a spectator and an accomplice in cruel acts of racism?

How long will we need to remember that it's a crime? How long are we going to have to fight for

concrete and effective attitudes on and off

the fields?

There is no joy where there is racism.

You have all our affection and that of all Brazilians, @vinijr.

Not only you, but everyone who has suffered and is suffering from this worldwide disease, which is racism.

Skin color can no longer bother.

Ednaldo Rodrigues - President of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CRF).

 

[KetsbaiaIsBald]

BBC article on the game and they failed to mention the head lock.  Lazy lazy

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65666613

[TRon]

7 minutes ago, KetsbaiaIsBald said:

BBC article on the game and they failed to mention the head lock.  Lazy lazy

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65666613

 

But they did quote Ancelotti with some real disturbing shit:

 

"It's the entire stadium that is insulting a player with racist chants and the match has to stop. I would say the same if we were winning 3-0, there is no other way."

[Adam]

17 minutes ago, TRon said:

 

But they did quote Ancelotti with some real disturbing shit:

 

"It's the entire stadium that is insulting a player with racist chants and the match has to stop. I would say the same if we were winning 3-0, there is no other way."

 

I just wish he said fuck it and took his team off. They're already third and can't be caught by 4th, though knowing La Liga they'd deduct them a load of points.