I actually took the time to type out a long response to this and the bloody page timed out on the train when I posted it. Sake.

The crux of it was is that you’ve still missed the point Raheem was making. How do you explain the difference in the tone of reporting in the Mail about the two different stories that he highlighted?

Tone and language in the media matters. This seeps into the public’s psyche and shapes opinions. Them having a mirror held up to them about this is required and this wider debate it’s created was long needed.

Some of the replies to this are ridiculous.

There's a video of him calling Sterling a black c*nt and people are trying to defend that. Or adding caveats to it.

It's not a left-wing/right-wing issue, I don't know why everything has to be.

The media treatment is borderline and some of the articles by the Daily Mail are disgraceful.

I know, seems as though the rules changed after June 2016, this incident, the banana thrown at Arsenal and some of the moronic comments in this forum. Brexit has emboldened the nationalists and we seriously underestimated the racist undercurrent that we fought years to extinguish.

The UK is in reverse gear

Edited by Pussay Patrol (12 Dec 2018 8.38am)

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God, that's is so hilariously misguided. You don't even understand do you. The reason nationalists exist in larger numbers is because far left politics has become mainstream and now more people like me realise what is happening.....That's how it works. Every action has its opposite reaction.

Edited by Stirlingsays (12 Dec 2018 8.47am)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

I'm sure your original post was great.

I don't read tabloids but they are usually tripe. If Stirling gets worse treatment than say Kane it is almost certainly about public perception and the desire of newspapers to cater to public tastes. Stirling is perceived in a certain way fairly or unfairly and that is just the way it is.

Here's the thing. SKY have been banging on about this 3 days now and before there was even confirmation that any racism had taken place on the touchline, they were already launching into a full liberal meltdown about racism with all the usual suspects saying that it was like the bad old days again etc.
This is identity politics pure and simple with SKY lapping it up. It gives them something to repeat every hour all week.
If people wonder why there could be more racism in society currently look no further than the media shoving all this crap in people's faces all day long. If people are like me, they are sick of being told how racist we all are in Britain as street crime increases and another terrorist kills people in Europe.

I'm sure poor Raheem can console himself by buying another car or something but in the end, a handful of boozed up failures have shouted abuse at a football match. That is not worth a week of coverage on TV in the wider context of what is going on in the world.

It's no real surprise that one tone members like hrolf who permanently have a colour chart in one hand and those with an interest or hierarchy in racial genetic differences don't really think someone being called a black c*nt matters a great deal. It's clear from the clip that this is what he said and he was right to be banned from for life. This idea that racial abuse is somehow no different from calling someone a tosser is of course more mud minded tosh.