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You don’t go to matches, so you don’t know what the crowd are thinking. Oh, maybe a few ‘mates’ tell you!
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Booing the knee - Tuesday
- Thread starter Fred Oliver - Legend
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You don’t go to matches, so you don’t know what the crowd are thinking. Oh, maybe a few ‘mates’ tell you!
You mods don’t take a hard enough stance on racism on this board. You need to sort it out.
Being intolerant of hate doesn't make me a bigot or a ****. Maybe you should ask yourself why you think booing an antiracist protest is acceptable.
By the way, post #42 was tongue in cheek (I imagine most don't need that pointing out).
The bear pit seems to be a safe place for racists.
Indeed.
I got banned many years ago for making a satirical remark about another racist post made by a racist poster. My retort involved the phrase “far too many blacks”, absolutely fine with the ban. It was poking fun at the racist but hey ho
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Now we have racists posting under the name Das Reich etc and all the mods do is say “oh well, best off ignoring these people. And if one dare mention someone is being racist the handful of right wing racists on here cry like kicked kittens.
Mods overall do a great job on here but when it comes to racism, they seem to be all at sea. It’s bizarre.
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Hate is a very overused word.
Booing is just one way of saying that people may not want the protest to continue in its current guise. It does not make that person a racist per se.
A non racist who doesn’t want the knee to continue keeps quiet for 15 seconds as they realise it’s important to others.
A racist boos.
Would you feel the same way if someone chose to boo a minute's silence as they didn't like the manner by which the dead person was being remembered?
Would you feel the same way if someone chose to boo a minute's silence as they didn't like the way in which the dead person was being remembered?
No. One was an individual real living person. The other is an aspiration.
But if you want to start reading out the name of every single person affected by racism before every match be my guest.
Ok, so booing a campaign to end child abuse or modern day slavery would be ok in your book as long as it was only done as the booers didn't like the method?
I can see the excuses now. "Some of best friends are kids and modern day slaves..."
The fact is the players have committed to making a stand against a serious issue. Even if you think "it's run its course", booing it marks you out as a wrong'un.