Bernardo Silva tweet controversy

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

I don’t think it’s any different then aguero being sad to look like the KUn character. If they were not best mates or something I guess I could see it but it was just banter between friends. They always joke online. People trying to make something out of nothing.

This is what much of the outrage these days centres around - something out of nothing. We've had players who've been nigh on a spitting image of the Pilsbury Doughman. Would it be a racial stereotype for one player to tweet another with a picture?

 

[Fordyboy46]

I’m sorry for the people and organisations that fight racism and rightly do so. But if we consider Bernardo’s tweet to be an act of racism than something has gone very wrong and it will definitely not help fighting racism where it should be. If you can’t see that you will have as big a problem as the people who actually are racists. For me Bernardo isn’t one of them based on his tweet to Mendy. Nor is anyone tweeting something similar to a friend despite any colour of skin.
If we take the fight against racism out of context we will never solve the problem. Nor should we ignore it when it actually IS an act of racism. This, no matter how you look at it, simply is not.

Exactly, we're on a very slippery slope here.

 

[Fordyboy46]

Six game ban incoming for Bernardo according to some reports. If that happened it's another nail in the coffin for Football and common sense in general.

 

[Fordyboy46]

That Padr81 on Sad Cafe really is the biggest sycophantic piece of shit.

Never afraid to make a mountain out of a molehill if it gains favour.

Apologies to any moles out there who are easily offended.

I've noticed him mate, always sucking up to the rag shite. I'd have been binned off within hours if I had my say on that forum.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

Six game ban incoming for Bernardo according to some reports. If that happened it's another nail in the coffin for Football and common sense in general.

Which reports?

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Six game ban incoming for Bernardo according to some reports. If that happened it's another nail in the coffin for Football and common sense in general.

How does a six game ban appear in all this? One tweet, one game! Oh, wait a mo, he wears a skyblue shirt. Got it!

 

[blue moony]

Out of interest did Smalling get banned when he went to a fancy dress party dressed as a suicide bomber ??

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Which reports?

Sky? BT? The BBC? The RDAHMeedya?

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Out of interest did Smalling get banned when he went to a fancy dress party dressed as a suicide bomber ??

He didn't 'cos he played most of his United games looking like a player ready to commit suicide.

 

[blue moony]

Yeah six game ban seems about right for city !

How funny the racially driven media witch hunt against Raheem Sterling by the same gutter journalists who are now acting like butter wouldn’t melt and are outraged!

Fuck them all!

 

[Fordyboy46]

Which reports?

101 goals site, they're quite a reputable source aren't they?

 

[Tugay One Cup]

Sky? BT? The BBC? The RDAHMeedya?

I have no idea what that last part means but all I've seen is a Times article stating what the maximum ban would be.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

101 goals site, they're quite a reputable source aren't they?

See above. They're quoting the Times.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Six game ban incoming for Bernardo according to some reports. If that happened it's another nail in the coffin for Football and common sense in general.

If that happens we need to ban all our players from tweeting. But we need to ban all the scumbags from our press conferences who constantly try and put MCFC in a bad light. I admire Fergie for having the balls to do so, Pep must take the same stance and fuck them off too.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

I have no idea what that last part means but all I've seen is a Times article stating what the maximum ban would be.

I should imagine that he would get the maximum. It'll be what the RagDipperArseHaringeyMeedya will be pushing!

 

[Fordyboy46]

See above. They're quoting the Times.

Aahh, ok .

 

[Tugay One Cup]

I should imagine that he would get the maximum. It'll be what the RagDipperArseHaringeyMeedya will be pushing!

I highly doubt it, to be honest.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

I highly doubt it, to be honest.

Well, it'll be five if it's not the maximum! ):

 

[balotellishaircut]

101 goals site, they're quite a reputable source aren't they?

About as reputable as the fucking daily star..

 

[Deleted member 77198]

There is a professional sports team in the US called Washington Redskins. This is a racist slur for every second of every day that it exists. The outrage about this exists in small pockets of First Nations society (and still then not all of the First Nations society because a lot of them don't give a shit and there are First Nations Washington Redskins fans) as well as with some Liberals.

Bernardo compares a picture of Mendy to a picture of a black cartoon kid - both of which have a shiny forehead in the pictures shown so the comparison could be said to be more than just about the colour of the skin. Just like how Aguero's family called him Kum Kum when he was a kid.

Because he had a resemblance to the cartoon character who was a caveman. Kun is not being compared to a caveman, he is not being discriminated against nor are Argentines, indigenous peoples of South America or Japan, Italians or Spaniards or any of the Latin/Hispanic diaspora.

These two things are exactly the same. There's no difference in them. Mendy and Aguero have cartoon characters that looked like them when they were kids. There's absolutely nowt more to be read into this. It's not uneducated and wasn't a stupid thing to do on Bernardo's part as there is fuck all wrong with it, he was having a laugh and Mendy found it funny.

Anyone who finds something wrong in this is simply a fucking soft **** and can go and get fucked!