****ing hell, nothing I could have written would have illustrated my point more eloquently than this.
Ha Ha Ha I love the way people take snippets of your post - out of context and then rage over it. I pointed out in my post that we have since learned thats its not acceptable to do the racist humour thing yet i am more or less labelled racist and asked if i want nf marches back. (To be honest i do think there should be some form of balance to the burning of the union jack and the protesting at servicemens funerals and the Abu Hamza blokes rantings.) Dont ask me what though. And it just seems to me that most posters on here are too easily offended and come across as spoilt girls and it gets in the way of discussions. I have just had a visit to the Leeds board and i know that they are a lot less sensitive and would not be half as up in arms as posters on here are. They are even making jokes out of Kebabs which I or anyone else i know wouldnt dream of and think that is so far worse than the Gary Speed taunts. And i agree that they are out of order. I just think that Leeds fans surely deserve some form of retribution for the stuff they often come out with.
I was going to criticise this but to be honest you have illustrated my earlier point far better than I ever could. Thanks. Edit: Sorry Jimmy - Great minds etc.
We really do have the most sensitive posters on here in the country!! who ****ing cares really? Leeds always give as good as they get in chanting ****e and always will do.
"they started having a go at Leon cort and ended up using the word ****** to call him out and I just couldn't believe it really especially since our team isn't predominantly caucasian then they had a go (clearly getting bored) at a steward in front of us, who looked more mexican than muslim, yet they felt the need to chant something about a bomb underneath his poncho." You ask "who cares really?" Well possibly Leon Cort, the steward, Liam Rosenior, Jay Simpson, Faye, Elmo do I need to go on?
**** me what has happened to the people who support this club. Moral outrage at a chant at a football ground. Go do the ironing you wet ****. Football has been sterilised enough over the years. And I suppose idiots cowering in the corner at the nasty men saying those upsetting words is the end product of this sterilisation. **** me I cannot actually believe what I am reading. Type of fans who call us 'Hull', and football 'Footie'. Go back to watching soccer am and Man U/Liverpool/Arsenal/Chelsea. We dont need your brainwashed ideas of right and wrong at this club.
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But the point is - why is making a joke about it being **** on racial grounds any worse than making a joke about it just being ****? I bet no one would mind if people called it Gaycester, Fatcester, Twatcester, Oldcester or even Jewcester but for some reason everyone has this massive deal about muslims to the point where you can hardly even say the word without getting a funny look. It's ridiculous. Being racially offensive should be no different to being plain old offensive. I'm not defending all this taking the piss out the dead stuff that the OP mentioned or the Leon Cort stuff, and Leiceseristan really isn't funny but it isn't hurting anyone either and that's the point. Someone says Leicesteristan and it gets compared to Hitler and proper racist abuse. Come on guys, when someone says Leicesteristan we should be poiinting out that it isn't that funny, not crying over it saying it's going to offend someone. It's a load of bollocks that.
It isn't soft to not tolerate the ****e that gets chanted by the bigots. If I tell you to shut the **** up because of what you are singing, you will. You see the difference is that I stand up for the oppressed, the weak and those in a minority, whatever their colour, religious views, politics and sexuallity. Half of the reason behind low gates, is because of the bollocks that happened in the past. You see, this is the difference, you would never stand by yourself in a gay bar or a curry house or at a Jamacan domino match and say what you would in a football crowd. Whereas I would happily stand in a football crowd and tell a racist to shut the **** up. Make of that what you want, but don't presume that because I don't support the bollocks that you do, I'm less of a man.
Leicesterstan isnt funny to an Indian and that makes it wrong. But until you understand why, you will always just think it a joke and not an insult.
I'm assuming that's aimed at me Mel? Direct me to the point in my post where I say I join in with this chanting? Your right about that sort of thing not going on in real life and rightly so. But the point is that football is a totally different situation. It is (or was before the P.C brigade took hold) a place where blokes go to have a beer, shout, let out a bit of agression and generally wind the other fans up. The point is where do you draw a line? How far are you prepared to go? Today its outrage at a chant, tomorrow you're banned from the ground because you havent got your face painted and you're not wearing your tiger bonnet. I'm just Someone who used to love football not just because of the game, but for the whole experience. And I guess im not easilly offended, neither was the vast majority who used to attened. Maybe I need to realise that footballs changing, as the world obviously is. I just don't think it's for the better.
Mel where is your hysteria coming from? Calm down you fanny we don't have a racism problem at Hull City. You sound like Sol Campbell and the BBC warning England fans not to travel to Ukraine because of unfounded scare stories about racism when in fact all England supporters got a warm welcome.
