I only wish that the report on Brighton fans had been their April Fool's spoof. Soft, southern, nancy boys has never been so apt.
Fair enough, but I think the opposite. I think it marks us out as being regressive and Victorian where the parameters of what is deemed 'acceptable behaviour' are very narrow. And I'm not just talking about football here, I think there is a whole wider argument of what constitutes 'free speech' in the 21st century. (Probably the wrong place for this and I haven't got the time to expound further).Makes Brighton out to be a progressive club imo.
There's more $ in sponsorship to be made from being perceived as that than being the typical brain dead moronic fanset of so many other clubs.
Fair enough, but I think the opposite. I think it marks us out as being regressive and Victorian where the parameters of what is deemed 'acceptable behaviour' are very narrow. And I'm not just talking about football here, I think there is a whole wider argument of what constitutes 'free speech' in the 21st century. (Probably the wrong place for this and I haven't got the time to expound further).
Marks us out as regressive to who though?
Definitely no businesses looking to invest or be associated with a product.
The idea of freedom of speech is a myth anyway. You can say what you like in the privacy of your own home. However you don't have such rights in public.
After all, it is 2013. If someones so brain dead they need to use gay as insult then society really will be better off if these people never breed.
The whole "it's just banter" line is the stupidest excuse I've ever heard to justify being a complete moron.
Yes. I think that neatly sums up the intolerant attitude I was complaining about, with a nice dash of eugenics thrown in as well!
The whole "it's just banter" line is the stupidest excuse I've ever heard to justify being a complete moron.
Rather be tolerant of racist, sexist or homophobic abuse would you?
You see this is the problem. Today people seem only to be capable of acceptable/unacceptable, yes/no binary positions and every argument immediately gets reduced to its polar opposites. If I'm in favour of tolerance I must automatically be tolerant of all abuse, is that what you're saying?
Yes; you are either tolerant or intolerant. You cant be semi-tolerant or partly intolerant. It is a binary position. So if you are not intolerant of homophobic abuse you must therefore be tolerant of it shirely.
Yes; you are either tolerant or intolerant. You cant be semi-tolerant or partly intolerant. It is a binary position. So if you are not intolerant of homophobic abuse you must therefore be tolerant of it shirely.