I get that ‘Political Correctness’ can be used to treat adults like children, as if none of us know the difference between a joke and an insult. Most of the jokes I’ve made or laughed at in my life have been very much non-PC, and it is essential that we are able to laugh at ourselves and each other.

The thing is, at its best, trying to be ‘PC’ is simply about trying to be decent to people. If you tell a joke, and then someone politely asks you to refrain in future because it upsets them, or because your joke will be added to all the other jokes on the subject to make it that much harder to do anything about the people who aren’t joking…. well, then you’ve got a choice to make.

You either dismiss their request on the basis that you sincerely and genuinely know it to be joke, or you make the connection between what you have said and what they feel. And that’s the point. It’s not about how you feel about what you’ve said, it’s about how they feel. That’s not ‘Political Correctness’, that’s just not being an ar$ehole.

So, if you are making the Brighton FC / Gay connection as a joke, and you know very well that it is a joke, I can understand why you don’t want to be called homophobic, or a bigot, or get arrested and banned from football, or whatever. Please consider though, that while you may well be none of those things, you are being an ar$ehole, because you know very well that all around you are people who find it offensive, or insulting, or feel that it isolates them, or even just find it cringe worthy and embarrassing. But you’re doing it anyway.

Let's all hope that you're not leading the HF choir then, at the end of the day it's the HF that I hope will listen to this plea. It's not much to ask for.

Don't sing anti gay songs but positive Palace ones.

Parrot

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Ok we could just start a list of other things to bait them about?

I'll start:

Lewis Dunk permanently has the face of someone who has been accused of rape

Falmer is a sod to get to

They've got 1 song

This is their first time in the Premier League

Glenn Murray has had one of the worst hair transplants in football history

Seagulls eat out of bins

Their kit looks like pyjamas

Most their fans support two teams

Fatboy Slim has made a "Put Your Hands Up For Brighton" remix which has to be the most cringey thing I have ever heard

Plastic clappers

We were the first to beat them at the Amex

We beat them in the Playoff Semis on our way to the Prem

No, it's not been around since we first started hating the seaweeds. Back in the day the rivalry became fiercely aggressive and was based on a couple of very nasty punch-ups. No hint of gay there, believe me.

The gay thing is more recent, as Brighton became better known as a magnet for LGBT lifestyle.

You don't need to call Weeds gays as a wind-up. The hatred has nothing to do with people being or not being gay. As I said on another thread, simple playground bullying and nastiness.

You are trying to excuse the bad behavior by defining, perfectly, the bad behavior. A majority insulting a minority (or using a minority as an insult) is the problem.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

It's not original which is why I might leave it, just like that 'Who are ya' bollox chant after we came from 2-0 down to 2-2 v Leicester.

Some things are tempting if it annoys someone though. I certainly won't be starting it or waiting for it to start. Also those Spurs fans were in the national media for homophobic chanting. No thanks to that.

COYP