Bernardo Silva charged with misconduct by FA

[Mon Autre]

Can somebody clarify this for me.

Is the issue Bernardo sharing the image or saying it looks like Mendy (which it does) ?

So if this image is offensive how can it be on a Spanish chocolate wrapper ? If so are the chocolate company now liable ?

It doesn't look anything like Mendy.

 

[Allnightlong]

Yes that's ok, but you can't say she is coloured, there's a difference.

eh? but she just said she is. so only she can say she is coloured but a white person cant?

 

[George Hannah]

Sky reporting Pep may be charged now because he said the images look similar

Surprised anybody who defends Bernie isn't charged - they must be pro racism obviously, especially Sterling. @Bigga should come on here again and explain it's not about what you think and say but how others decide whether what you said could be have a completely different meaning in a different context. The HoC Speaker put the position succinctly recently:

“It is incredibly important that we are sensitive to the wider implications and interpretation of what we say. The mores of society do change and sometimes one can find that things one has quite freely said in the past without causing offence can no longer be said without causing offence.”

The end is nigh.

 

[basokla]

No. Breaking story at 5pm on SSN

Well that’s me not commenting on an anonymous message board about this whole episode anymore.

I don’t want to be charged.

 

[SWP's back]

Can somebody clarify this for me.

Is the issue Bernardo sharing the image or saying it looks like Mendy (which it does) ?

So if this image is offensive how can it be on a Spanish chocolate wrapper ? If so are the chocolate company now liable ?

I don’t have a podcast so don’t feel I’m in a position to answer I’m afraid.

 

[Metalartin]

It doesn't look anything like Mendy.

KDB looks less like Tintin and we are fine with that, the only similarity is they are both pasty with ginger hair. It's the typical "he looks like you" joke friends always have.

 

[SWP's back]

It doesn't look anything like Mendy.

It looks as much like Mendy as Tintin looks like KDB or Pickford looks like the kid from this is England.

 

[balotellishaircut]

eh? but she just said she is.

When she said "she's a woman of colour she stating she's black, mixed race etc. It's derogatory to say to a black person or a person of colour your "coloured". There is a difference between the two quotes.

 

[Mon Autre]

It looks as much like Mendy as Tintin looks like KDB or Pickford looks like the kid from this is England.

1) I haven't said those people look like any of those people
2) Tintin isn't, as has been said many many times, a character based on a racist stereotype.

 

[andyhinch]

I don’t have a podcast so don’t feel I’m in a position to answer I’m afraid.

Do we need a podcast to have an opinion now ? fuck me I’m loosing track.