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Arsenal, if these are the best they can get why the problem. Surely Squads should be the best a Club can get. Why include anyone who isn’t good enough?
If you’re good enough…..
If there's a bias (either concious or unconscious) in the recruitment process then it does matter.
For a sports team, pick the best players. As long as there's no bias in the recruitment I don't get the problem.
Of course in other organisations diversity can be enormously valuable and important to have.
Stories like this are the usual divisive sectarian nonsense that are slowly tearing us apart.
I agree, many do. But I think the BBC is one of the worst culprits and they have a broader responsibility. They routinely promote these stories at the expense of other things and as I say, I think it's driving wedges between people and creating an image of a society in constant racial conflict, which I don't think is true. I think it's making society more divided
Because the BBC often report on these stories, frequently based on a tiny reaction on twitter. And they only have so many stories on the website / TV news and thus other stories by default slip down the agenda.
Sometimes the demand for racism seems to outstrip supply and this strikes me as one of those occasions.
How is it going too far? It's actually pretty strange seeing an entirely white team and staff. It's like something from another era.
Because sometimes that will happen. Arsenal's men's team has a real lack of white English players. That will also happen. Cardiff City doesn't represent the city of Cardiff at all.
The Great Britain men's basketnball team has no white players.
You can't go around scrutinizing these things too much. Or you can, and you can dog whistle about racism but as I say, I think you'll be contributing towards driving society apart more and merely emphasising that race and skin colour is all that matters.