The racial abuse of a Sunderland footballer on Twitter is being investigated by police. Fraizer Campbell was sent a message, from an account which no longer exists, after he made a comment in support of Estonia ahead of a Euro 2012 play-off.
The Mackems have a large contingent of Irish fans dating back to the days of Roy Keane being their manager. Perhaps seeing one of their players supporting their opponents in the Euro qualifiers, pissed some of them off.
Is that a joke? I always thought your hatred of NP stemmed from you wanting to be the most boring person in the KC? Made me laugh anyway if that's any encouragement mate
It is way overrated though. Anton Ferdinand won't give a **** about anything John Terry said, even though he probably didn't anyway, but the media and public are all over it like flies and obsessed with whether Terry will play the next England game. Half these people don't know we beat the best team in the world the other day with our reserves against their best XI, because they don't want to talk about that. This incidence will I be the same I daresay. Racism in general is just way over-hyped. Real racism is nazi ****, but for some reason everyone now wants to use the term to describe anyone slightly different being insulted. Is saying 'black' really as bad as some of the real racism that has existed over the years? We've had slavery, apartheid and the nazis, and yet people get all shirty about an anonymous internet warrior calling someone a chimp or something daft like that, there's no comparison.
This is what I mean, the two terms should either be both offensive, or both not. But for some reason some daft people have created this culture of fear around anyone different and made out as though racism is just saying the word black or calling someone a muslim. I've been called racist because I said I disagree with most muslim teachings. Racism is actually abusing someone just because they are in some way different. Calling someone a black **** is just name calling, same as fat ****.
People haven't been historically persecuted for being fat like they have for being black though. The two don't compare, it's more than just a physical characteristic.
I agree in principle with what you have said.I don't mind it being racist provided when the boot is on the other foot it should be treated in the same way or have a bit of common sense about name calling. I had a couple of black mates who gave as good as they got, and if it was today we would all be in gaol, I would be anyway.
Edit: removed this comment, although it was a clear joke and I even pointed the fact out, people would still go calling as they're soft ****s.
Maybe you could enlighten me as to what is politicly correct, a good friend of mine is black, we refer to him when speaking 3rd party as the black guy, now if we refer to him as coloured that's when he has issues, if a black man/woman called me a white man does it make that black man racist. It's all bollocks tbf
Jimmy Hill once said that calling Marcel Desailly a "lazy fat ******" (he was defending his mate Big Ron by the way) was no worse than someone calling him 'Chinny'. On account of his large chin. He was wrong. It is. Historic connotations apply heavily to one and not the other. A very excellent Stewart Lee sketch exists on the matter. Is racism funny? Well, not to people who aren't thick.
Bollocks indeed. It's blatantly obvious what genuine racial abuse is, the word abuse gives it away in fact, abuse is actually abusing someone. Not just mentioning their colour/religion/nationality. Also there's massive double standards in this. All the thick people think racism is just about black people and muslims, and yet the same people happily go around calling everyone they don't like a jew. How is that any different? Equally it's ok to make fun of people from other European countries but if someone says 'paki' everyone starts crying.
It's the historical context that makes racism obscene. Slavery was a disgusting trade but practiced by most cultures for thousands of years. The Europeans flooded the carribean and the Americas with Africans for so long they became thought of as the lowest of the low and not worth much. Therefore to describe someone using the N word became an insult. The difference with using words to insult a culture which you believe is less advanced/intelligent (whatever) than yours is that they cannot change. They have to live with that insult and can do nothing about it but protest. That is why anger is the response.
