Where to begin?

Is it or is it not the case that historically images of gorillas, and thrown bananas, were one of the nastier racial attacks in football and worryingly regular. Someone of Mackenzie's generation would know this in a highly ingrained way. Using a gorilla was always massively insensitive, not checking whether there could also be racial overtones in this specific case negligent in the extreme.

And picking on a player in Liverpool this week of all weeks when you are the Sun. It simply can't be a coincidence, trying to get in their revenge in an underhand way I suspect. Either that or again unbelievably stupid.

Either way the stupidity has to be called out. People from Liverpool are no different from anyone else in the UK so why do some on this site seem to think they deserve what they get?

Oh and by the way, having read a small number of his articles, Mackenzie is one of the most odious people I have ever come across.

Edited by Mapletree (17 Apr 2017 3.30pm)

Regardless of what he knew or didn't know, he hasn't called him a gorilla has he.
My objection to the piece is that unlike most animals, the gorilla is the one animal who when I have looked into it's eyes at the zoo they seems to looking back and sizing me up in return. In a daft anthropomorphism, I have imagined that they are thinking that if there wasn't glass between us they could rip my arms off before I could say Kong Island. His assertion about gorillas is therefore wrong in my view.
Equally, pandering to the over sensitive and mischief maker is also wrong in my view. Your opinion about Mackenzie is irreverent as regards an accusation of racism.

The "easily offended" have gone into full mouth foaming outraged knicker wetting mode over this.

It's in a highly read national linen. You keep repeating stuff enough (whether it is true or not), it almost becomes accepted fact among the hard of thinking. (I bet loads of people don't actually really know why they hate Harriet Harman)

Do you think Mckenzie should be allowed to carry on writing that bile?

Edited by nickgusset (17 Apr 2017 9.15pm)

Literal.

A Google image search still shows that The Sun created a composite image of Barkley next to a gorilla.

Mackenzie said this:

"Perhaps unfairly, I have always judged Ross Barkley as one of our dimmest footballers. There is something about the lack of reflection in his eyes which makes me certain not only are the lights not on, there is definitely nobody at home. I get a similar feeling when seeing a gorilla at the zoo. The physique is magnificent but it’s the eyes that tell the story."

I think as a person Mackenzie comes across as mean spirited and unnecessarily vindictive.

However this whole incident is completely stupid and it is just the manifestation of how stupid and politically correct society is now.

The whole thing is completely the fault of left wing activism.

Apparently an arsehole isn't allowed to make a living now.....Some of them should sack themselves.

Fecking 'salem witch trials' every other week.

Edited by Stirlingsays (18 Apr 2017 12.19am)