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PaddyMcPaddy 22 Aug 17 5.16pm | |
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Originally posted by becky
The question is, might he not have made the same remark to a white player whose emigrant family were coming back to watch her play? So, was is 'cos she's black or was it 'cos he's s*** scared about being in fairly close contact with someone whose family are coming over from an area where this killer disease is active at the time and he has a concern for his wife and kids and family? The joke wouldn't quite work if it was a white women whose family were travelling over from Ireland though would it. It's all about context, if he over stepped the imaginary banter line its a load of old nonsense. It's not a funny joke but if said in jest then that's what it is. If he said it aggressively as an abusive comment then yeah maybe she has a point. All the information given if that it's a unfunny ill advised joke. So her coming out in the press claiming racism is bang out of order and could risk this guys job.
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becky over the moon 22 Aug 17 5.26pm | |
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Originally posted by PaddyMcPaddy
The joke wouldn't quite work if it was a white women whose family were travelling over from Ireland though would it. If he said it aggressively as an abusive comment then yeah maybe she has a point. All the information given if that it's a unfunny ill advised joke. So her coming out in the press claiming racism is bang out of order and could risk this guys job. I actually meant white emigrants returning from Nigeria....... they do have white people in Nigeria you know, not many, but some
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Ray in Houston Houston 22 Aug 17 5.36pm | |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
And those who obsess about such flimsy and self-serving concepts. Yes, there is fault on many sides...on many sides. Edited by Ray in Houston (22 Aug 2017 5.37pm)
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hedgehog50 Croydon 22 Aug 17 5.56pm | |
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I see Geoffrey Boycott is in trouble for making some silly comment. In his case, I am quite happy to see his career finished on any sort of pretext - trumped up or not.
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