It's not up to us to tell other countries what is racist,we are different cultures,nobody is interested in the advert,they are entirely interested, dare i say frothing about a portugese player being racist when he clearly is not
I suppose the supplementary question would be...Can someone explain exactly what offence was taken?
I fail to see how using a public legal symbolic representation of a Portuguese sweet manufacturer in a jovial fashion with your mate is offensive.
Mendy is a person of colour, so is the illustrated character used. Is the thrust of the comparison about someone who eats a lot of sweets and is carrying a bit of timber... that's how I'd read it... you know the kind of thing mates do to each other when having a laugh and taking the piss.
In fact if this was something people were not allowed or encouraged to happen, that is what I'd consider as being racist - deprivision based on skin tone.
that advert is 40 years old. the new advert has 3 different coloured things, white ,brown and black
There couldnt be more difference. Why apologise for something that isn't racist?clearly stated as such previously about bernado, the media as we know is just using this stick to try and unstable us
why can't we say its racist? if we don't they will continue to think its ok.
we condemn monkey chants from italian and eastern european culture, what the difference
its not the fact he compared mendy to someone else/thing that is black its the use of that particular character that's the issue, whether bernado knew it or not we can all agree it is a particular racial stereotype. airing it publically was a faux pas.
Spot on. Some have a very selective target and motiveSterling alluded to how down... Bernardo has been. It’s easy to be dismissive but I do think there’s been significant ‘I’m deeply offended’ from the usual suspects in the anti-city camp. I haven’t heard the likes of Andy Hinchcliffe slamming Boris Johnson for his islamapheobic comments - letterboxes etc... seems his move into political correctness is reserved entirely for us. Equally, the BBC is being high and mighty on this whilst hanging one of its own employees out to dry - for condemning racist comments.... This is as much a case of who did it... i don’t want to dusmiss this issue completely- lessons must be learned but it’s being used as another stick to beat us with.
Because it's not our cause to change an advert in another country,it has nothing at all to do with monkey chantsclearly stated as such previously about bernado, the media as we know is just using this stick to try and unstable us
why can't we say its racist? if we don't they will continue to think its ok.
we condemn monkey chants from italian and eastern european culture, what the difference
There couldnt be more difference. Why apoligise for something that isn't racist?
Conflating monkey chants with Bernardo tweet is disgraceful.
Because it's not our cause to change an advert in another country,it has nothing at all to do with monkey chants