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Post by althepirate on Feb 25, 2015 8:13:36 GMT
'BLACK PLAYER APPLAUDED BY OPPOSITION FANS'
Why is it the media has totally biased reporting? Why when there is love and hate in the world go they only focus on hate? My only guess is if they stir up enough hatred there would be a bigger story for their next pathetic edition.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2015 8:21:56 GMT
Wouldn't it be a better world if the headline was just "Player applauded by fans"?
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Post by Rovers 12th Man on Feb 25, 2015 8:47:57 GMT
Wouldn't it be a better world if the headline was just "Player applauded by fans"? Exactly. There is no need to bring race into it at all. Some would still see it as a form of racism as someone is being singled out for the colour of their skin, regardless of the fact it was a positive thing. |
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Post by gassince1957 on Feb 25, 2015 8:48:01 GMT
Wouldn't it be a better world if the headline was just "Player applauded by fans"? Agreed Hugo but when that black goalie accused our fans of racial chanting the press were all over it. So in a way it would be good if they reported the applause the Braintree player received last night - it's very rare that an opposition goal is applauded whoever score it though. |
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Post by althepirate on Feb 25, 2015 9:01:02 GMT
Wouldn't it be a better world if the headline was just "Player applauded by fans"? Agreed Hugo but when that black goalie accused our fans of racial chanting the press were all over it. So in a way it would be good if they reported the applause the Braintree player received last night - it's very rare that an opposition goal is applauded whoever score it though. Exactly, this is my point. Balanced reporting is required. Rovers 12th man, race is brought into headlines so many times already in a negative way it would be good IMO to get the positives as well. |
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Feb 25, 2015 9:03:35 GMT
Wouldn't it be a better world if the headline was just "Player applauded by fans"? Agreed Hugo but when that black goalie accused our fans of racial chanting the press were all over it. So in a way it would be good if they reported the applause the Braintree player received last night - it's very rare that an opposition goal is applauded whoever score it though. But the racist chanting was about race. Akinola's goal wasn't. |
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Post by althepirate on Feb 25, 2015 9:09:38 GMT
Agreed Hugo but when that black goalie accused our fans of racial chanting the press were all over it. So in a way it would be good if they reported the applause the Braintree player received last night - it's very rare that an opposition goal is applauded whoever score it though. But the racist chanting was about race. Akinola's goal wasn't. Again this is my point, most football fans (people) are not racist, but the media affect attitudes. My friends daughter, who is mixed race, came home in tears yesterday after watching the Chelsea train video, she now believes all football fans are like this. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2015 9:44:28 GMT
But the racist chanting was about race. Akinola's goal wasn't. Again this is my point, most football fans (people) are not racist, but the media affect attitudes. My friends daughter, who is mixed race, came home in tears yesterday after watching the Chelsea train video, she now believes all football fans are like this. I get the point you are making but unfortunately?? there is no such thing as positive racism. |
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Post by althepirate on Feb 25, 2015 9:53:53 GMT
Again this is my point, most football fans (people) are not racist, but the media affect attitudes. My friends daughter, who is mixed race, came home in tears yesterday after watching the Chelsea train video, she now believes all football fans are like this. I get the point you are making but unfortunately?? there is no such thing as positive racism. Thanks, well there should be! otherwise we just get the negative. |
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Post by gasincider on Feb 25, 2015 9:57:27 GMT
Well let's not get into positive discrimination then.
As for their goal last night, have to admit that I applauded it. Best goal I've seen for a long time. If it was a one off which it probably was then ok. But remember how he prevented the ball going out near the west enclosure. Absolutely brilliant.
Good luck to the fella, just not here. Hopefully we won't be playing them next year.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2015 10:17:39 GMT
That touch over by the family enclosure was insane! Nearly as good as the goal to be fair...
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Feb 25, 2015 10:20:33 GMT
That touch over by the family enclosure was insane! Nearly as good as the goal to be fair... I thought it was CGI. |
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Post by althepirate on Feb 25, 2015 10:31:12 GMT
That touch over by the family enclosure was insane! Nearly as good as the goal to be fair... I thought it was Muzzy back again, imagine him on the left and Dawson on the right! |
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Post by Mark Ash on Feb 25, 2015 10:40:58 GMT
I take the OP's point but I suppose "news" relates to the exceptional. (Dog bites man - no news. Man bites dog - news.)
In the Deep South circa 1870 white spectators applauding a black player might have been news, but it would be sad if such a thing made the news in Britain today! Even one nutter abusing the Dartford keeper was deemed newsworthy, because it was so exceptional. In the same way, the Chelsea video would have meant nothing in the 70s or 80s - only a wrecked train or serious fighting would have been newsworthy then. Football has been transformed.
The problem - as the OP suggests - is that the news media and all the ranks of people mad keen to be "offended" blow these tiny incidents out of proportion and use them to misrepresent football culture, because crisis and failure make drama.
More exceptional is the fact that Gasheads apparently applauded a vital opposition goal. I haven't seen it yet and I look forward to seeing the highlights.
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Post by althepirate on Feb 25, 2015 10:46:42 GMT
'The problem - as the OP suggests - is that the news media and all the ranks of people mad keen to be "offended" blow these tiny incidents out of proportion and use them to misrepresent football culture, because crisis and failure make drama'
Exactly this.
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Post by long john silver on Feb 25, 2015 10:48:10 GMT
'BLACK PLAYER APPLAUDED BY OPPOSITION FANS'
Why is it the media has totally biased reporting? Why when there is love and hate in the world go they only focus on hate? My only guess is if they stir up enough hatred there would be a bigger story for their next pathetic edition.
We had so much to be proud of last night, so proud to be a Gashead today. where did the quote come from ? |
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