Quote Originally Posted by JamesWales View Post
Personally I don't disagree with anything here. My issue is that the BBC jump ahead of itself talk about it as a major story when there is no actual evidence that anything has been said or done. It doesn't help anyone or anything. This hyper fixation on the topic is unhealthy. If racism is bad (and it is) then why are we making a big deal out of something that it seems likely hasn't even happened. If it impacts upon people, then maybe collectively we should stop and wait a bit before making out it's rife everywhere.

This utterly preposterous story about Connor Gallagher today too - allegedly being racist. Most ridiculous story ever but pumped online by people who, it seems increasingly clear to me, have an agenda.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68724701
The result is that he gets a load of abuse.

Mental.
I think the BBC reporting a possible issue of racial abuse is definitely newsworthy

From time to time things unravel and in this case should the alleged incident be found to be nothing to do with the racial origin of the Hungerford player ......and from information posted on here it appears that it wasn't a racist incident then we should hope that the BBC, the Hungerford manager etc accept a mistake was made

If Merthyr town and its fans want to take that further it would be perfectly understandable

But this angle that complaints of racism have gone too far these days blah blah blah are a red herring as if a black player is verbally abused racism is often behind it and it needs to be investigated

Just in the last few months Wednesday fans have been looked into regarding monkey gestures at an opposition player

It's not political correctness gone mad etc , it happens

Some of the racist crap broadcast by a Cardiff City fan on social media .....now banned .......against a Swansea player last season was embarrassing