Rainbow laces campaign

Got to agree with @bluebc. Don't want to be exposed to political slogans in football as well.

I get that there are cynical people out there - I often being one of them - who perceive these 'political slogans' as nothing other than a shallow attempt to act fashionably progressive but I don't understand what issue someone could seriously take with a multicoloured pair of laces.
 
I don't care about another person's gender, sexuality, religious beliefs or ethnic group.
I also don't care for being patronized by politically correct campaigns like this.
I particularly dislike know all, no nothing, knob head, 'liberals' polishing their halos in public.
If it's OK with you I'd like to keep supporting City.
I said 'hate', as in the homophobic ones who are posting shite on social media.
 
I don't care about another person's gender, sexuality, religious beliefs or ethnic group.
I also don't care for being patronized by politically correct campaigns like this.
I particularly dislike know all, no nothing, knob head, 'liberals' polishing their halos in public.
If it's OK with you I'd like to keep supporting City.


How on earth are you allowing yourself to feel patronized by footballers wearing rainbow laces ?

I feel sorry for you and will wear jet black laces all weekend in sympathy.
 
I don't care about another person's gender, sexuality, religious beliefs or ethnic group.
I also don't care for being patronized by politically correct campaigns like this.
I particularly dislike know all, no nothing, knob head, 'liberals' polishing their halos in public.
If it's OK with you I'd like to keep supporting City.

Young man, there's no need to feel down.
 
I don't care about another person's gender, sexuality, religious beliefs or ethnic group.
I also don't care for being patronized by politically correct campaigns like this.
I particularly dislike know all, no nothing, knob head, 'liberals' polishing their halos in public.
If it's OK with you I'd like to keep supporting City.
He said young man, pull yourself off the ground.
 
I said 'hate', as in the homophobic ones who are posting shite on social media.

I hate these homophobic knob-heads as much as you pal, but each to their own, and the idea that they should stop supporting City seems particularly illiberal to me.

Anyway, sorry for the rant, I just wish we could watch the football without having these campaigns foisted on us.

I think if a Premier league footballer came out as being gay, there would be media wank fest and the average football fan wouldn't give a fuck.
 
How on earth are you allowing yourself to feel patronized by footballers wearing rainbow laces ?

I feel sorry for you and will wear jet black laces all weekend in sympathy.

I'll do the same, as penance for my sense of humour failure (although it's a bit of an empty gesture on my part as my laces are already black).

The civil rights movements in the sixties, women's lib in the seventies, gay rights in the eighties and nineties were all valid causes.
Battles that needed to be fought and won; and thankfully they were.
But political correctness is the overshoot of these legitimate crusades.
I think one day we'll look back on the absurdities of footballers wearing rainbow coloured laces, and other politically correct nonsense in the same way that we laugh at the Victorians for covering up table legs because it reminded them of sex; it's bollocks.
 
It's only a couple of seasons ago that you used to hear 'who's the faggot in the pink?' Being sung at some unfortunate in the away end who had the audacity to wear a pink jumper or polo shirt.

It's campaigns like this that will eventually stamp out all this shit. The generation before mine used to throw bananas on the pitch at black players and do monkey chants - this sort of thing is necessary

Bang on.

Anyone annoyed at this shit is a ****.

It's a rainbow behind a City badge, who the fuck gives a fuck?

I'm all for letting everyone get on with it but unfortunately people need leading out of bigotry.
 
I don't think they are one off battles.
1920s Berlin was the best place for a night out on the planet - gay/straight, black/white, jew/non-jew jazz drugs. 15 years later it wasn't so clever.
Wanna tell US women about how they've won the battle when the new supreme court may remove their right to abortion?
Wanna tell UK women it's ok to earn less doing the same job?
Wanna tell Black communities that everything is ok now?



I think things go in cycles.
Even if they don't I think you have to be in the army to declare a battle won.



I'll do the same, as penance for my sense of humour failure (although it's a bit of an empty gesture on my part as my laces are already black).

The civil rights movements in the sixties, women's lib in the seventies, gay rights in the eighties and nineties were all valid causes.
Battles that needed to be fought and won; and thankfully they were.
But political correctness is the overshoot of these legitimate crusades.
I think one day we'll look back on the absurdities of footballers wearing rainbow coloured laces, and other politically correct nonsense in the same way that we laugh at the Victorians for covering up table legs because it reminded them of sex; it's bollocks.
 
Going to a game of football isn't the time or the place to alert folk to social issues that maybe are more likely to appear in a pub, it's 2 hours away from all that outside shit where you can focus your time and attention on the team you love, it's an escape where for those 90 mins of football nothing else matters, i spend my week being forced fed political correctness i don't want it at shoved down my throat ( no pun intended) when i have my escape from life/missus/work/kids at a game of football at a weekend.
This post is frankly an embarrassment. And this sort of gesture by City is clearly aimed at people like you who need to be better.
 

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