Bernardo Silva tweet controversy

[blueabdi]

I am a black, and not offended by the Mighty Bernardo post, it was a joke.
so what is your problem you white foxes?

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

What a fucking stupid post

The Chelsea fan accused Brightwells left peg, of being racist without evidence.

Unfounded allegations, shouldn't go unquestioned, though my reply to him was slightly tongue in cheek.

 

[Paul1970]

He compared his mate to a black cartoon character. I'm sure Mendy took it in the right context but here come the social justice crew...

What a load of shit . What’s the world coming to when you can’t have abit of banter between different races and nationalities. It’s different if it’s nasty and intentional but it’s a joke and he’s having s laugh . If people take offence fuck em

 

[M18CTID]

I mentioned this on the earlier thread that got pulled..On an episode of Corrie a couple of years ago an Asian character called a white female character ‘white trash’..now that is racist and given the recent cases of child grooming by groups of Asian men also an indication of how these groups treat young white girls. How was this not deemed racist at the time? Where were all these politically correct arseholes then?

I hate to break this to you but maybe, just maybe, it’s because Coronation Street isn’t real and the person who played the character was, ahem, just acting? I mean, was Helen Worth ever pulled up when her character Gail Tilsley made homophobic comments towards Todd Grimshaw after he made a pass at her son?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Images like that have historically been used ridicule and caricature black people. It's really not much different to posting a picture of Mendy next to a picture of a monkey in the name of friendly banter.

It's discernibly different.

 

[TINY]

@Ric the conversation has turned to coronation street, if I remember rightly during my tenure as Mod this contravenes article 2.4, please delete.

 

[mancityscot]

the outcry is fucking daft but doesnt take much to get peoples back up in todays society. social media has caused it to be a much bigger issue than it should be

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

the outcry is fucking daft but doesnt take much to get peoples back up in todays society. social media has caused it to be a much bigger issue than it should be

Yep and social media has caused short attention spans and next week there will be another bandwagon to jump on for them all...

 

[Wafty Cranker]

Don't know if it's been brought up but let's talk Sergio, or "Kun" Aguero, Kun is the name of a Japanese cartoon character who Sergios' Grandad said he had look of when he was little. So Sergios' Grandad is a racist, or maybe its just a bit of fun between Grandad and Grandson.

This is all getting confusing.

Is the “You signed Phil Jones, we signed Kun Aguero” a racist chant? I might have to report it to Kick it Out.

Is comparing Rooney to Shrek still acceptable, or will Shrek take offence?

 

[chesterbells]

Because he never thought for a moment people would be offended,like it or not this is how the kids talk to each other,FOC's like me don't really get twitter but that is how everyone communicates

Well all I can say is that I’m on Twitter and I don’t communicate like that, nor do any of the 100s I follow, or whose tweets I see. Lame to do it publicly imho, no need, that’s all.