Gus Poyet's views on racism

[Daz...]

Originally Posted by http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-united/8899191/Sir-Alex-Ferguson-says-Gus-Poyets-views-on-Manchester-Uniteds-Patrice-Evra-in-Luis-Suarez-race-row-a-bit-silly.html

"I can assure you and everyone Luis is not a racist. We use different words and it is a different kind of situation.

"We live in Uruguay with plenty of people who have different colour skin. We all live together and play football together.

"What hurts me the most is that you accuse someone. Luis Suarez has been accused of being a racist."

"You cannot accuse people without a proper investigation, especially when it's a foreigner who is coming from a different place where we treat people of colour in a different way," he said.

"So it was very easy to accuse someone. Luis Suarez is 100% not a racist.

"You are not racist when you go against one, but [you are] if you go against the whole world of different colour and nationalities. That is being racist, not saying one word in one moment.

To a degree, I agree with him because of the bits in bold.

If race is not an issue, it is not condemned as much because it has lost the menace and persecution it would have if one race was viewed as superior to another.

When people from a handful of races play together regularly it becomes simply another thing to wind up the other man with, such as calling somebody fat, ginger, ugly etc.

Places like France have a lot more racism where people are discriminated against a lot more, which is why Evra has kicked up a fuss, and rightly so, but I understand where Poyet is coming from in saying that Suarez did not mean it in a malicious way.

(Suarez is still a cvnt mind)

[KGC83]

I'm sick to death of all this racism shite. A lot of blacks in this country have got a massive massive chip on their shoulder and I don't care who that upsets. If some black lad called me a white honky I would piss myself with laughing.

[Jack Blue]

Originally Posted by Daz...

To a degree, I agree with him because of the bits in bold.

If race is not an issue, it is not condemned as much because it has lost the menace and persecution it would have if one race was viewed as superior to another.

When people from a handful of races play together regularly it becomes simply another thing to wind up the other man with, such as calling somebody fat, ginger, ugly etc.

Places like France have a lot more racism where people are discriminated against a lot more, which is why Evra has kicked up a fuss, and rightly so, but I understand where Poyet is coming from in saying that Suarez did not mean it in a malicious way.

(Suarez is still a cvnt mind)

So next time Lee Bowyer goes bashing its not racist - as long as he only kicks in one of them?

[King Niall]

Originally Posted by Jack Blue

So next time Lee Bowyer goes bashing its not racist - as long as he only kicks in one of them?

oh oh

[Jack Blue]

Originally Posted by KGC83

I'm sick to death of all this racism shite. A lot of blacks in this country have got a massive massive chip on their shoulder and I don't care who that upsets. If some black lad called me a white honky I would piss myself with laughing.

Yeah but if you or a close family member ever had shit through your letterbox with the words "go home honky" on you may feel differently.

[KGC83]

Originally Posted by Jack Blue

Yeah but if you or a close family member ever had shit through your letterbox with the words "go home honky" on you may feel differently.

No I wouldn't.

[Daz...]

Originally Posted by Jack Blue

Yeah but if you or a close family member ever had shit through your letterbox with the words "go home honky" on you may feel differently.

That is malicious though isnt it, that is obviously condemnation as a result of their race

[King Niall]

Originally Posted by Jack Blue

Yeah but if you or a close family member ever had shit through your letterbox with the words "go home honky" on you may feel differently.

tut tut white honky surely

[Boss]

Suarez plays and is paid in england - we dont tolerate racism, and i couldnt give a fuck if they tolerate it in uruguary - he should know better. I hope he gets the book thrown at him

[Marco20]

Originally Posted by Jack Blue

So next time Lee Bowyer goes bashing its not racist - as long as he only kicks in one of them?

The point is it the fact he "bashed" which is the problem not the fact it was a ''.

Suarez, if found guilty, should be banned for truly offensive comments not the fact they were racist. IMHO

The racism card is far far too easy to play.