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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+29I vote for a mandatory "Zidaning" of the offender in addition to the five-game ban
- Coded1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10How are they going to prove this though? It's already bad enough with all the dives going on how are the refs or other officials going to confirm what was said?
- horanghee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10How a life long ban on attendees who throw bananas at black players?
It's despicable. - NetImp, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13Perhaps where you live it is perfectly acceptable to turn up for work in a KKK outfit and hurl racist abuse at your acquaintances, in most places it isn't, footballers shouldn't have to put up with it at their workplace either.
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Great idea, we can get rid of racism by banning overt expressions of it! It worked for Germany...
- Vantrax, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Bout time this came in after that display in the final. Its so incredibly unprofessional
- kimzor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Good. I live in Scotland and this can sometimes be an issue when Rangers and Celtic play each other. I just wish the fans wouldn't do such things. :(
- kampfy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Um, most of the world also doesn't regard "Yeah, I can hold my liquor," as quite the same thing as, "Ha Ha, yeah, my mother's quite the terrorist whore."
- Hayl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4They shouldn't even need a "rule" for this. If people behaved respectfully and with common sense towards others not only in sports but in life in general, then the world would be a better place.
- jamesey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I hate how people attribute racism to soccer. Racists are everywhere and in Europe, they sometimes use soccer as a venue to show their racist ways. These people are not soccer fans. They simply go to games to spread their message because they have a large audience to try and influence. In the USA, people are racist but they spread the hate in different ways. Racists tend to be lower class citizens and can't afford the high cost of US sporting events.
- romulasry, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I doubt this will be applied equally to non-white players.
- elamr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The Clockwork Orange Effect - you can't force people to be good
I respect the premise behind what they are trying to do. I even agree.
But I don't think you can force people to be "good" "respectful" or "decent" to others [see Clockwork Orange]. Sometimes laws that mandate good behavior even make things worse (i.e. US racial integration in the 50's.. it didn't stop people from hating each other. It made it MUCH worse). I think things have to play themselves out. Its karma, momentum, reaping and sowing, newton's first law, whatever you want to call it. People are so caught up in their inherit "cultural/racial/national pride" and ignorance that things have to play themselves out (racial slurs, discrimination, wars, killing.) Ignorance is bliss... I don't think so.
An unfortunate part of the human condition. - Poco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I can see it now. Do they have to fall down on the ground clutching their leg if they get insulted too?
- nofelix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not that I'm against being nice to people, but how can religion be a protected class in the same way as race? A religion is a belief system, the same as marxism or veganism or in fact supporting a football team. Where's the line?
- NerdyNinja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I agree, but you might as well wish for world peace through placing me in a position where I can run the world. Everything would be better, then... promise. :)
- coreydoucorey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good. I've never thought it is for real.
- BrokenDrum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here here!
- callinthelaw69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15 games away from a sport is really enough to change someone's mindset that they've likely had since childhood?
- sporkit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I've never met an Irishmen who wasn't proud of how much he could drink. I'm not embracing unfair treatment of any person based on their race, but I do stand behind freedom of speech.
- wattie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1banning someone, because he gave bannana to black player? But black players may like bannanas...
- tipdog32, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5what racist display happened in the final?
- Darth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Such small steps are always fruitful in the long run, though people "as ususal" might criticise them or take a stab at them. Idea is to keep a positive opinion about the good things.
- martissimo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'm guessing that is covered with this, along with the monkey gestures like Eto'o is so used to in La Liga. You can bet with the repercussions for those actions now seriously affecting clubs (points deductions, forfeits, losing right to play in home stadium are no small matter), that those clubs will now be quite a bit more proactive about checking the video, figuring out who it is, and getting them tossed out of the stands pronto.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2That's such a Jewish rule.
- sporkit, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Outside the US racial stereotypes are a source of national pride, I'm jumping off this page before the barrage of PC postings made by predominantly American crowd makes me dizzy.
- ftft98, on 08/20/2008, -0/+0I am an overseas chinese who has lived in several countries including South America and have come to know first hand the attitudes of people from many spanish countries, so let's drop all pretenses and call black black and white white. I will start by pointing out that latin people are no better or worse than any other people and not all latinos are racists; nevertheless, to all the latinos who argue what is the big deal, this is only an affectionate gesture, I say to you, if you are a racist at least have the courage and backbone to admit it, don't be a coward and argue that it is a sign of affection; if that is a sign of affection so is someone flipping his middle finger to you! I have lived amongst you, I know your cultures and I know what is in your hearts. You make these slanty-eyed gestures only to insult and express your derogatory attitude, prejudice, and disrespect to the chinese people and other asians. How do you explain the observation that the 3 teams that have made slanty-eyes gestures are all spanish speaking? is this a mere coincidence or is this a pattern in spanish cultures in general? Are Gasol, Calderon, and the entire Spanish men's and women'sbasketbal teams as well as the argentinian women's soccer team just individual cretinos y cretinas malcriadas or do they reflect the general ugly racist attitudes that all spaniards find difficult to hide? Is it a mere coincidence that the spaniards and the argentinians share the same culture and have the same racist attitudes? remember, when you wear your countries jerseys your actions will be interpreted as reflecting the attitudes of your entire people. If you have something stupid to say or some obnoxious action to show the world, have the common sense to take off your country's jersey and do it as an individual and not as a representative of your nation or the world will conclude that you come from a nation of retarded narcissistic and superficial cretins who have no respect for people who look different than you.
By the way, I fail to see anything special about the looks of those people making the gestures, they are all very plain looking and are certainly no beauty queens, in fact one of the argentinian girls should do a DNA test for asian genes, all in all I only see lots of stupidity and a definite lack of proper upbringing; Que desgracia a sus familias!
posted by Chinese and Proud - teckjunkie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Porch Monkey for Life!
- superzorn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thanks! Rubbish. I'd better go and drink some vodka
- TeamGrease, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I assume this means that, if a player gets called by the ref for "unsporting conduct" (and gets carded/sent off), AND the foul falls under these new racial guidelines, they get a five match ban.
- kizio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well... Is anyone able to open this link?
- popapiska, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Beautiful! I'd better go and sleep instead of reading THIS
- DMCrawford, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I find it inexplicable that there can be such casual displays of racism in what is the world's most popular sport. People from virtually every corner of the globe play or watch soccer. I read a news story the other day about a Latino soccer league that includes 80 teams in NORTH CAROLINA I was amazed.
I still have faith that soccer can create opportunities for cross-cultural understanding. Stop the bull and play ball! - Kiganshee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0AFAIK, Zidane denied being racially insulted. The whole "racist insult" thing was made up by apologists angry because he couldn't keep his head. Racists are despicable, but people who cry wolf about it are too.
- flotsky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+05 games? Still not much of a punishment to me. If you banned someone for a season instead, you'd kick racism out of football a lot quicker.
- elamr, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5"Wow! Look at this, the Digg moderators have taken off my VERY accurate story about Digg.
http://digg.com/tech_news/How_Michelle_Malkin_s_followers_are_promoting_Digg_articles
I got 33 diggs in one hour and then the article was removed from the queue. If the article is up to 33 shouldn't it be on THIS list?
http://digg.com/view/technology/upcoming/most
I hate to spam other articles, but what's going on? I hope I don’t get my account suspended next. "
Maybe the "Malkin followers reported your story as spam". It doesn't seem to take many reports for a story to get nuked. - tuna1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2"Perhaps where you live it is perfectly acceptable to turn up for work in a KKK outfit and hurl racist abuse at your acquaintances, in most places it isn't, footballers shouldn't have to put up with it at their workplace either."
A. The only people active in the KKK are white, southern American rednecks who don't have jobs.
B. Hurling racial obsenities in the workplace gets your assed canned under Federal law alone. - s-m-a-c-k, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4you need a an emoticon, I can't determine whether thats sarcasm or not... no seriously, I guess I need to brush up on history...
- Qmass, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35 games isn't enough...
- s-m-a-c-k, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4ummm... let me get this straight, in countries other than the US, people embrace the negative stereotype as a symbol of national pride... please cite a reference...
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