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I don't think at any point the football threads got "drowned out", when there's football news and people want to talk about it then nothing could drown it out.
There might have been more politics threads during the referendums but it was never overwhelming and nothing a little curation couldn't fix.
History tells us that every similar post as this one on CCMB always ends up in the same way with a competition to see who can express the best faux pas outrage for their peers and chucking the R word in to try and close down the debate, I didn't read the article BTW. Just like knife crime, and the cost of a tin of baked beans the stats were always going to go up irrespective of the Referendum however, and depending where you buy it, petrol has come down recently, Tesco near the Toby is 8p per litre cheaper than the Texaco near the 3 arches garage at the moment don't normally buy Tesco gas, but tomorrows fill up is giving food for thought tonight.
Well, seeing as it was misleading bullshit it shouldn't have been reported in that way. The question was this: "How do you feel about young Muslims who leave the UK to join fighters in Syria?" even The Times said it was misleading and apologised in their corrections and clarifications, but the damage was already done
You genuinely sound as if you've pooled the words of every single Donald Trump/Alex Jones/Nigel Farage transcript and are just picking words at random, and since when was "liberal" a dirty word?
You talk about a "PC media" even though, as I've already pointed out, the two biggest newspapers are the right-wing Daily Mail and The Sun
ISIS were an affiliate of Al-Qaeda, who rose to prominence as a result of US involvement in Afghanistan (the first time round) with the Americans funding the Mujahideen who then formed many offshoots following the Soviet-Afghan War, one of which was Al-Qaeda, so it isn't really that juvenile/stupid/dangerous to suggest that today's problem with Islamic terrorism isn't (partially at least) a product of Western involvement in the Middle East/Asia/Islamic nations
Load of bollocks. Let's look at the issue in question, not your BNP party political broadcast.
The article is looking at the increase in hate and race crime since the Brexit referendum. You seemingly forgot to mention it contains attacks on non-Muslims as that renders your reply irrelevant. Whether you like it or not, in the immediate aftermath of the referendum, some non-British people were told by a small minority of braindead ****wits that they should go home. I know of people who faced hostilities from knobheads.
You might also be aware that more terror attacks are foiled that would have been carried out in this country by white supremacist groups.
The think I can't, for the life of me, work out is how Muslims, Islam etc became a part of the EU referendum. Maybe not directly, it was never particularly discussed, but a number of leave voters thought by voting leave that we could stop them coming into the country (maybe even getting rid of some of those already here). Take the poster that Farage proudly stood under in the latter moments of the referendum campaign. Immigration from the middle east, asylum seekers etc never came under EU jurisdiction in terms of how we manage our own borders, but lots of dullards believed the EU was to blame. Extraordinary.
I'm so ashamed to be Welsh when moronic Welsh people accuse a whole section of other Welsh people of being thick racists because of where they live.
Labelling people from the valleys as racists because of the actions of a few idiots is on a par with calling all muslims terrorists because of the actions of a few idiots.
If you think there's no racism in places like Cardiff Manchester or London then you need to get out more.
At his very moment, only 14 of the 40 threads on the first page are about football.
Only 7 out of 40 are about Cardiff specifically.
But even though that's worse than the scenario that got the board split up it's not remotely considered a crisis.
Basically put, a certain topic was in the news and people were discussing it. A few people got a bit fed up and the board got split as a result, but I don't think the board improved because of it. All splitting up the boards did was make the main board less popular.
It's the off season though and no euros or World Cup. I'm sure there will be more football talk in a month or so.
If you remember, one of the options Mike had was to basically delete any non-football discussion, surely you will concede that a separate politics board, or an "off-topic" board was a sensible compromise?
Get real there's plenty of recent incidents of intolerance down Cardiff.
A quick search on Google and there's mosques being attacked, Europeans being attacked in the streets.etc
Jeez the Finsbury Park terror attacker lived in Cardiff (Yes I know he was from Somerset originally). Does he not count in this utopia version of Cardiff that you've built in your own head? You said everyone counts?
Tosser
I used to like coming to the main board and seeing what stuff people are posting about politics, I'd laugh, learn something new, see what other people's opinions are, and maybe even chip in myself.
Now politics discussion (often the most lively type of discussion) has been relegated to a rarely visited backwater and I think the board is poorer for it.
I see your point, but as I alluded to earlier, it seemed to get to the stage where most discussions on the main board were a. Not about football and b. Mainly between splott dai and feedback essentially saying "oh no it isn't" "oh yes it is". Sometimes for days on end.
Personally I believe a rarely visited backwater is the best place for that crap, but that's just my opinion. And yes, I know I've been involved in many debates about brexit in particular, but I think most of us find political arguments, well, boring. And it's not like the politics forum is hard to findf you want to discuss that kind of thing.
End of the day, it's up to Mike