[Cricket] FAO man of West Stand Upper; re Racism.

Guy Fawkes said:

Outbreaks?, or also countries where someone has displayed signs of the disease (including relapses?) after catching it and returning to their country of origin, and therefore meaning that the disease could be present, but dormant within the host, and has the possibility of it being passed on? (the nurse in the UK had to go back in for further treatment after symptoms returned)

It's mostly associated with Africa, but that doesn't mean people visiting Africa from other parts of the World (regardless of race) are unable to catch it if they encounter it. The post i quoted seemed to imply it was exclusive

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Easy 10 said:

You can dance around it all you like, but you know as well as I do that if there is some oaf hollering abuse from the stands at a black player about ebola and AIDS, given the well known origins of those particular diseases, there is a higher-than-likely chance that it is being spewed as a racist insult. So don't insult my intelligence or your own by defending it through mealy-mouthed semantics over who can contract it.

If some scumbag decides to wish a deadly disease on a black player, then there are any number of ones they could select that do not originate in Africa.

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Guy Fawkes said:

First i knew about aids was from the tv ads in the 80's (?) about it in the UK. I do not associate it with Africa (just looked it up on Wiki and that's the first time i have seen any connection to it originating from Africa) so did not make any connection with it being based on someone simply being black or simply being African

Sorry if it seems i was excusing this behaviour, i am not, and never was. It has no place in society (abuse in general, regardless of whether it has anything to do with race, or not... but especially if it is to do with race)

I simply did not associate Aids with Africa, more a worldwide thing - It can and does affect anyone, which is why i was questioning the comment which implied that these were exclusive to Africa or closely associated with it or people with ancestry linking them to Africa and therefore the conclusion of the OP that it was clearly down to skin colour, etc....(which appeared to be wrong to me and why i questioned it)

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clapham_gull said:

Keep digging....

If the above is true it clearly has racial overtones.

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mothy said:

This isn't racism (for me).

A Brighton fan shouts abuse at an opposition player.

If he was welsh & got bah or sheep shagger or French about garlic or onions or ginger etc etc. That isn't racist - but because zaha is black you feel it must be because he is black

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Guy Fawkes said:

Outbreaks?, or also countries where someone has displayed signs of the disease (including relapses?) after catching it and returning to their country of origin, and therefore meaning that the disease could be present, but dormant within the host, and has the possibility of it being passed on? (the nurse in the UK had to go back in for further treatment after symptoms returned)

It's mostly associated with Africa, but that doesn't mean people visiting Africa from other parts of the World (regardless of race) are unable to catch it if they encounter it. The post i quoted seemed to imply it was exclusive

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Easy 10 said:

The insinuation is clearly a racist one. Much like when Mark Sampson told Eni Eluko to make sure her Nigerian relatives "did not bring ebola to a game at Wembley".

If you can't see how that has racist undertones then you need to give your head a wobble.

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Guy Fawkes said:

I didn't get the racial overtones when it came to aids and Africa. 1st I remember about the emergence of aids as a kid was people in this country dying from it, shots of white patients in hospital with the illness. Later i know there has been some news about aids in Africa and how religion was preventing people from using protection, leading to it's spread with the Pope at the time refusing to tell followers to use condoms, but there was also news about it being in other countries too. So i never connected it to Africa in the same way as others clearly do

I do now see why some do connect the 2, and I agree they almost certainly did have racist motives in this instance. (i never contested this)

I just didn't connect the 2, (Africa and Aids) and therefore the way it read to me was that it implied that it was a Black persons disease and that by someone mentioning these diseases, peoples minds would automatically spring to the conclusion that the person who had the disease would be black and African - hence my posts about others being able to get it (and ebola) and that just seemed bizarre and incorrect to me

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mothy said:

This isn't racism (for me).

A Brighton fan shouts abuse at an opposition player.

If he was welsh & got bah or sheep shagger or French about garlic or onions or ginger etc etc. That isn't racist - but because zaha is black you feel it must be because he is black

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Guy Fawkes said:

The quote i responded too:

I replied


My point was that the post i replied to seems to imply that it is an exclusive thing which struck just one race and therefore will only ever be directed at someone of one race - i disagree (maybe i should have highlighted that section to make it more obvious) Not everyone will think person with AIDS = African person. and people shouldn't automatically assume Ebola = exclusively affecting Africans only

I've heard people wishing someone else got aids and died before, and it wasn't anything to do with the colour of their skin or their ancestry. Ebola is the recent deadly disease to make headlines, so is it beyond the realms of possibility that someone may wish this nasty disease on someone else (again regardless of either parties skin colour) and it not being down to their being of a particular race?

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JamesAndTheGiantHead said:

Chanting about Wilfried Zaha having Ebolba and/or AIDS is both incredibly racist and and/or futile. He can’t hear you from the top of the stands; those who can hear you, however, include nearby Albion supporters of African descent.

Public service announcement concluded. Have a word with yourself.

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Gabbafella said:

Was the colour of his skin mentioned in the chanting? If not, then it's just a comment directed at a player and people being a bit too precious and jumping on the "I feel like I should be offended so I'll tell everyone on NSC I'm offended even though I have absolutely no reason to be offended" bandwagon.

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Guy Fawkes said:

The quote i responded too:

I replied


My point was that the post i replied to seems to imply that it is an exclusive thing which struck just one race and therefore will only ever be directed at someone of one race - i disagree (maybe i should have highlighted that section to make it more obvious) Not everyone will think person with AIDS = African person. and people shouldn't automatically assume Ebola = exclusively affecting Africans only

I've heard people wishing someone else got aids and died before, and it wasn't anything to do with the colour of their skin or their ancestry. Ebola is the recent deadly disease to make headlines, so is it beyond the realms of possibility that someone may wish this nasty disease on someone else (again regardless of either parties skin colour) and it not being down to their being of a particular race?

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Springal said:

No he didn’t.

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The Brighton Ace said:

Just for clarification - is it your opinion that it isn’t racist to imply someone has aids or ebola because of their African heritage?

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Mr Putdown said:

Are you white perchance?

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