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Why Do Racists Think That They Can Get Away With It?

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sp1814 | 16:07 Mon 10th Dec 2018 | News
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It’s it a bit arrogant to think that people around you wouldn’t be offended?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6478763/Hunt-continues-Chelsea-fan-appeared-call-Raheem-Sterling-f-ing-black-c.html

It’s like this man fell out of a space ship that came from 1972.

But seriously - why would someone shout this out, unless they were really drunk or high?

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A drunken peabrain using the most pertinent insult to express its frustration is the most likely scenario. Unfortunately though Farage and Tommy three names have led the far right into thinking their idiotic nastiness is somehow acceptable nowadays
11:12 Tue 11th Dec 2018
Since the Brexit vote, this sort of behaviour has been on the rise again - the "rotten johnny foreigner" syndrome of the Little Englanders.
Does it really matter, sticks and stones and all that.
Sad, but I assume it was only the third word that was objectionable.

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Since the Brexit vote, this sort of behaviour has been on the rise again - the "rotten johnny foreigner" syndrome of the Little Englanders.


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Sparklykid

I see where you’re coming from. Sterling is a good looking young man with a few thousand in the bank, possibly more than the ‘fan’ will ever earn. But why should others in the crowd hear this?

Is this not about manners?
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O_G

Yeah...lets assume that you really can’t scream the ‘C’ word out, no matter where.
I have never been to a footie match but I suspect there are a few choice words being chucked around.
Why racist. Perhaps he was just a supporter of the other team.
I'm sure I've been called far worse than a f-ing-black-c, SP. Haven't you? Or have you led a much more sheltered life than I?

If Mr Stirling and others like him feel hurt and aggrieved by a bit of foul-mouthed abuse maybe they need to grow up a bit.

And, as ususal, our "overstrained and undermanned" police force is wasting its time prosecuting ingorant types who hurt people's feelings rather than the real criminal types who threaten their lives and property.
//Is this not about manners?//

Yes, it is. And as such ought not be a matter of law.
"Since the Brexit vote, this sort of behaviour has been on the rise again - the "rotten johnny foreigner" syndrome of the Little Englanders."

Absolute cobblers.

This was at a football match and racist chants and language has been going on at such events ever since black people began to take to the pitch. It has become no worse (nor indeed any better) since 2016 and to suggest that it has is not only jumping on a bandwagon, it is building the vehicle and installing a highly tuned engine. Unfortunate as it may seem, some people who attend football matches are not among the sharpest knives in the drawer nor the most polite and their attitude towards "rotten johnny foreigner" has always been as it is.
no idea, some people are simply stupid.
The metropolitan police force claims it has 900 officers working exclusively on "hate crimes", (you're supposed to be impressed) while the knife crimes continue apace, and are mostly unsolved.
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emmie

I’d like to think that it was just stupidity.
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khandro

Did you know that ‘hate crime’ is defined as physical assault, verbal abuse and incitement to hatred.

The fact that the police are assigning resources to these kinds of crimes should be something to praised.
And I agree it should not be a matter for Plod.

Had the player been white and was simply called a f-ing c by one of the "fans" there would have been no headline, no problem and no threatened police involvement. It's adding a (fairly accurate) description of the player's skin colour that's caused all the fuss. It's been turned into a "hate" crime. Supporters can hate footballers for any reason they like so long as it does not involve their race or colour. That's when the full panoply of the "hate squad" swings into action.
I suspect the perpetrator of this comment uses this sort of language fairly regularly and is just a foul mouthed git. It wasn't probably intentionally racist and could equally have been - 'fu----g bald c---', fu----g ginger c---' etc, depending on which footballer annoyed at that time.
Sometimes the wheel seems to be turning backwards.
^^^annoyed him at
Clubs should have a zero tolerance policy toward this, and such people should be banned for life from the club.

I'm not sure it should be a police matter.

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