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he does quite a lot of this kind of thing though doesn’t he. I’m sure I’ve read quite a few times about him visiting kids in hospital.
So you’re against racism when it’s “loud and clear”, so then presumably you’re not against it when it’s more subtle? Seems and interesting position to take, which I’ll come to in my final point.
As I said, I never once said Rudiger was racially abused by anyone in the stadium, but you seem to want to put that on me as it fits your narrative. (I do appreciate though that you may not have gone back to read the thread.)
And this is because I actually accused you of:
“What you are showing is 'Conformation Bias' because you looking for any opinion (or in this case lack of option) that proves no racism occurred yesterday, because that's your pre-existing view of the events. You're not being open minded enough to accept it could happen.”
To be fair we all have some bias to one degree or another, not just on race, it’s inbuilt and it’s up to us to understand it or not.
In reality though, that language you used in that thread was pretty poor, I personally don’t think anyone who frequently uses the term ‘race card’, in a derogatory sense, or calls someone who claimed to be racially abused “a lying sack of shit” should be lecturing others on what is and what isn’t racism.
So to the final point, in a sense it’s good that you’re only against racism when it’s loud and clear, otherwise you might not like looking in the mirror.
P.S Sorry I hijacked this thread, I’m done though.
This is the boring bit where I point out the Mandarin Oriental is I believe, Singapore registered and own by European business (worse still the chair is somehow hooked up with the Woolwich so doubles evil) and is actually an example of the "exoticised" Orientalism that makes the word problematic for some. Language has history as we reinterpreted history, feelings change. It happens whether we like it go along or not. Plus Woolwich so fuck em.
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I'm against racism when it's loud and clear, when I see someone racially abusing someone on video, when I see hundreds of Bulgarian supporters racially abuse our England players. Fundamentally, we're different because, again, you try to make it black and white by making racism either loud and clear OR "subtle" for the sake of your argument. Instead of subtle, it's non-existent. Something you can't come to accept regarding the Rudiger incident. Since there's 0 evidence, you try to pass it off as though Tottenham supporters racially abused Rudiger "subtly".
Of course you haven't. You'd look like a fool to claim he was when there's 0 evidence even to this day. But there's enough in your language to indicate you truly believe it happened, and you've probably been praying for evidence to come out that would support his allegations and then you can feel vindicated.
I've never heard of Conformation Bias before. I think the term you are looking for is Confirmation Bias. "Racism occurred yesterday". Are you referring again to Rudiger? The club has cooperated with the police and experts in lip reading and have released plenty of information to indicate there was no form of racism. You should take our club's word for it and just let it go at this point.
Good to know.
Odd, since you told me you agreed with a lot of what I said regarding racism. I guess that all now goes down the toilet though, because I said some bad words? What fallacy is that?
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Honesty dude, if you're just gonna make stuff up to satisfy yourself and live in a fantasy, have at it...
Tottenham Hotspur manager Jose Mourinho has confirmed he has spoken privately with Dele Alli about his Snapchat post earlier in the week saying he was very sorry about his mistake.
"It was an easy conversation because he was sorry about the mistake but it was never his intention to hurt, offend. He immediately regretted it, recognised it was a young guy mistake, a young generation mistake. I can say that he regrets and that for me is the best feeling he can show and to apologise is remarkable because sometimes these people don't realise they make mistakes."
"It was an easy conversation because he was sorry about the mistake but it was never his intention to hurt, offend. He immediately regretted it, recognised it was a young guy mistake, a young generation mistake. I can say that he regrets and that for me is the best feeling he can show and to apologise is remarkable because sometimes these people don't realise they make mistakes."
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Hopefully doesn't start on Weds.
I’m a big fan but he was just poor today.
His movement was great, creates spaces for our other players
Dele lost four big chances today. Played well in the first half, though, with good combinations with the other attacking players and excellent work rate in his movements - not only attacking, but pressing and tracking back. But played badly in the second half,and after his fourth big mistake in front of the goal deserved to be substituted.
At least after games like this we get gammon tears when he keeps starting
Why do you think that?