Both of your examples are clearly homophobic chants if it helps!
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With the news today that Leicester City fans have been arrested for HC at their recent home match with the Seagulls. Telegraph Sport bottom of page 5.
I am actually wondering what is allowed and what is not.
We all need a sense of humour surely.
With Racism we all know that Black is (properly used) okay but coloured and the N word are no longer acceptable EVER.
But HC is much harder to comprehend I think.
For example ...what about....
Does your boyfriend know you're here? HC?
We can see you holding hands? HC?
For me ... almost a pensioner ... the whole thing is becoming ridiculous.
Discuss. Without anything obviously homophobic.
Both of your examples are clearly homophobic chants if it helps!
Eh, the new law is skewed in that it's missing intent.
"F*ck you you f*cking f*g" is clearly hatred based upon sexuality, hence an actionable homophobic comment.
Of those two examples in the original post, is there really hatred in there? Not defending those comments, I'd personally not make them but it seems to deal with what is a minor problem in the scheme of things they've used the equivalent of a nuclear bomb.
It's difficult to comprehend what is and isn't acceptable in today's society.
I read this morning that a guy who asked a girl for a kiss on a train has been accused of sexual assault!!!
There has to be gay footballers out there. There just has to be.
Because of the constant jokes about homosexuality they clearly stay well in the closet.
Yes there is no venom or hatred in them like the banana throwing of the 70s, but it's death by a million cuts.
The fact that so far the only gay footballer to come out was 30 odd years ago and ended up killing himself clearly highlights there is a problem here
Arrestible offence is a bit far. To be honest I don't think you should be arrested for anything you say unless it's threats to harm or planning harm
I don't know how I feel about this to be honest.
Chanting at a known gay person is wrong, but chants at the Brighton fans is not aimed at anyone specifically. In a similar way, we don't really believe that jacks feast on dead rats.
People in their 50's/60's and 70's come from different times.
Some of the stuff on TV back in the 70's in particular, whilst didn't feel wrong at the time, in today's context would be beyond unacceptable.
It can be difficult for us oldies to keep up to date with what is and isn't acceptable, but we do have to evolve.
The constant , aggressive homophobic abuse dished out to Justin fashanu by our supporters down at Torquay when he played for them was a disgrace and made me ashamed , I always thought our fans were better than that but like feck we were .........thinking back does anyone remember the bananas thrown at the black man city goalkeeper Alex Jenkins ? ........from the canton stand .........it always makes me cringe when Cardiff fans deny there has ever been a racist element among our support ......wankers
This is worth a read on the subject.
https://twitter.com/ChrisRWhiting/st...57650137927681
The Care Home? It's where the Theatre Royal used to be.
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With regards to the whole fashanu thing, there seems to be a bit of history being rewritten these days.
I'm pretty sure his suicide followed him being arrested for the sexual assault of a 17 year old in USA. He fled back to England where he took his own life. His suicide note stated that he figured he wouldn't get a fair trial as he was gay.
I'm not saying he didn't suffer chants and abuse from the terraces but that wasn't the reason he killed himself.
How hard is it not to chant homophobic stuff? I don't think anyone would be arrested for the "we can see you holding hands" and "does your boyfriend know you're here" chants but even if they weren't offensive they stopped being funny about 10 years ago. Football fans really know how to beat a dead horse.
I know I'll get stick for this but I think as the majority of the board are straight, white men we struggle to understand how discrimination affects people. It's easy for us to say throwing a banana, or chanting "we can see you holding hands" is just harmless "banter" but if we were in their position we'd probably feel different.