FogBlueInSanFran
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Would you say the same about unions? How about women?
I'm sure you'd like the world better if people who were different than you just sat there quietly.
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Homophobia in football
- Thread starter roy.or.r
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I'm sure you'd like the world better if people who were different than you just sat there quietly.
FogBlueInSanFran
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No I don't think he is -- it's more my comment that teams inherently bury individuality.Are you really equating LGBT rights with Nazism?
mexico1970
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Would you say the same about unions? How about women?
I'm sure you'd like the world better if people who were different than you just sat there quietly.
I will say keep it out of sport yes, if you want a march have a march and if I support your views I may or may not let that be known. I however will not wear anything that someone orders me to wear.
WTF have women got to do with this? You reach that much one of these days you're going to fall flat on your face.
Kippax Street 1880
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I have a similar opinion to the taking the knee and poppies. If players want to show support with rainbow laces/armband then great. If not its a free country and forcing everyone to wear it lessens its impact anyway tbh. Think everyone is a bit tired of constant identity politics and want sport to be free of that, but on the other hand football and activism have always been intertwined.
Guess I've said a whole lot of nothing here really. Ah well
Guess I've said a whole lot of nothing here really. Ah well
By refusing to wear the armband on the grounds of their religious identity, Morsy, Guehi, and Mazraoui have only further entrenched the presence of identity politics in football.I have a similar opinion to the taking the knee and poppies. If players want to show support with rainbow laces/armband then great. If not its a free country and forcing everyone to wear it lessens its impact anyway tbh. Think everyone is a bit tired of constant identity politics and want sport to be free of that, but on the other hand football and activism have always been intertwined.
Guess I've said a whole lot of nothing here really. Ah well
No, he isn’t. It’s about orders.Are you really equating LGBT rights with Nazism?
Mad Eyed Screamer
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Not at all.Are you really equating LGBT rights with Nazism?
I was replying to a post that said you are showing as a team you are fully behind the said cause in question so do as you are told, shut up complaining.
The England team were pretty much told to give the Nazi salute as to not do so would be disrespectful.
roy.or.r
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Yeah what a great idea to keep racism and LGBT issues out of a sport where they still exist to this day. Also to everyone here saying the player shouldn’t be forced to have the armband. So if tomorrow a player says they don’t like the team jersey and refuse to wear it, then it’s okay? What if a club’s main jersey is rainbow coloured and a player refuses to wear it because of “religious reasons”? I would like to see the reactions then. Standing up for inclusion is not political or personal- it’s just the right thing to do. If that’s too much for you, maybe you need to rethink your priorities.I will say keep it out of sport yes, if you want a march have a march and if I support your views I may or may not let that be known. I however will not wear anything that someone orders me to wear.
WTF have women got to do with this? You reach that much one of these days you're going to fall flat on your face.
mexico1970
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Yeah what a great idea to keep racism and LGBT issues out of a sport where they still exist to this day. Also to everyone here saying the player shouldn’t be forced to have the armband. So if tomorrow a player says they don’t like the team jersey and refuse to wear it, then it’s okay? What if a club’s main jersey is rainbow coloured and a player refuses to wear it because of “religious reasons”? I would like to see the reactions then. Standing up for inclusion is not political or personal- it’s just the right thing to do. If that’s too much for you, maybe you need to rethink your priorities.
Players shouldn't be FORCED to wear any political symbol ever. Progressiveness is the new fascism.
roy.or.r
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Showing support for LGBTQ people is not political. It’s basic human decency.Players shouldn't be FORCED to wear any political symbol ever. Progressiveness is the new fascism.