Is this PC gone barmy

TheDuke · Aug 17, 2015

or am I just an old bigoted dinosaur. "Foreigner" is now unacceptable? Where's it all going to end?

St Johnstone: Brad McKay charged over 'foreigner' remark

St Johnstone defender Brad McKay has been charged with making an "offensive comment" about Hearts striker Juanma.
The 22-year-old was widely quoted describing the Spaniard as "a typical foreigner" who "gets touched and goes down"

Bakero · Aug 17, 2015

It's not the word foreigner that's offensive, it's attributing negative behaviour to being foreign. The 'typical foreigner' remark is clearly pejorative. When people refer to me as a 'guiri' in Spain, I'm sometimes offended depending on the context.

Should he be charged? I don't know. They don't seem to have specified what, if any, sanction there will be.

Nibble · Aug 17, 2015

It doesn't seem to be the word "foreigner" on it's own that is the problem. It's the word "typical" alongside it. Doesn't bother me but try putting it alongside other words: typical black man or typical woman.

wellquickwoody · Aug 17, 2015

Well, as a remark it is rather rac.....oh, hang on, it isn't :shrug:

BLOCK F · Aug 17, 2015

TheDuke said:
or am I just an old bigoted dinosaur. "Foreigner" is now unacceptable? Where's it all going to end?

St Johnstone: Brad McKay charged over 'foreigner' remark

St Johnstone defender Brad McKay has been charged with making an "offensive comment" about Hearts striker Juanma.
The 22-year-old was widely quoted describing the Spaniard as "a typical foreigner" who "gets touched and goes down"

Sounds daft to me, but then again I am of a certain age where this kind of thing doesn't really matter.
Makes me laugh;I wonder what kind of insults fly around Test Matches....Pommy *******s, Aussie *******s, whinging Poms and far worse.It is all racist,if you want to look at everything like that.

Green Cross Code Man · Aug 17, 2015

Personally I think it's PC madness. It seems like a fairly innocuous comment.

Bakero · Aug 17, 2015

wellquickwoody said:
Well, as a remark it is rather rac.....oh, hang on, it isn't

Imagine you were abroad and someone referred to you as a 'typical Englishman acting like a ****.'

StonehamPark · Aug 17, 2015

PC gone mad(der).

I wish this country would stop being so delicate sometimes.

Thunder Bolt · Aug 17, 2015

TheDuke said:
or am I just an old bigoted dinosaur. "Foreigner" is now unacceptable? Where's it all going to end?

St Johnstone: Brad McKay charged over 'foreigner' remark

St Johnstone defender Brad McKay has been charged with making an "offensive comment" about Hearts striker Juanma.
The 22-year-old was widely quoted describing the Spaniard as "a typical foreigner" who "gets touched and goes down"

Charged by whom, and with what? If it's the Scottish FA, then it could be bringing the game into disrepute?

pastafarian · Aug 17, 2015

TheDuke said:
The 22-year-old was widely quoted describing the Spaniard as "a typical foreigner" who "gets touched and goes down"

i touched a foreigner once and like the typical Swedish girl she was, she went down without hesitation

Bakero · Aug 17, 2015

Thunder Bolt said:
Charged by whom, and with what? If it's the Scottish FA, then it could be bringing the game into disrepute?

He's been charged by the Scottish FA with 'making an offensive comment.' http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33964249

JOLovegrove · Aug 17, 2015

Nibble said:
It doesn't seem to be the word "foreigner" on it's own that is the problem. It's the word "typical" alongside it. Doesn't bother me but try putting it alongside other words: typical black man or typical woman.

Exactly. How would everyone react if they had said typical woman?

Leekbrookgull · Aug 17, 2015

Well i take exception to being called a Pommie *******,mind you they are not happy when i shout back Convicts !

symyjym · Aug 17, 2015

He should have said Poms, Taffs, Jocks and Paddy's don't fall over when touched.

Seasidesage · Aug 17, 2015

pastafarian said:
i touched a foreigner once and like the typical Swedish girl she was, she went down without hesitation

Don't suppose you still have her number? :lolol:

Thunder Bolt · Aug 17, 2015

Bakero said:
He's been charged by the Scottish FA with 'making an offensive comment.' http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33964249

Football Associations make their own rules. Players know that & have to abide by them.

wellquickwoody · Aug 17, 2015

Bakero said:
Imagine you were abroad and someone referred to you as a 'typical Englishman acting like a ****.'

And if I were, than what should my objection be?

Bruntburger · Aug 17, 2015

Isn't he just stating his opinion of a particular 'type' of people? No one has to believe him and I do t see any malice in the statement.

Isn't it like a Spanish player saying typical English player kicking the ankles and being aggressive!

The comment doesn't even specify a particular nationality and covers 6 billion people lol!!

Bakero · Aug 17, 2015

wellquickwoody said:
And if I were, than what should my objection be?

I'd imagine that if it happened at work your colleague would be reprimanded.

StonehamPark · Aug 17, 2015

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