mackembhoy
International Regular
You apparently know nothing
First person I've ever seen being a fan of odious wife beater boycott.
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*Official* Yorkshire CCC racism crisis thread
- Thread starter ImpatientLime
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First person I've ever seen being a fan of odious wife beater boycott.
Shri
Mr. Glass
so you are saying he had a good strike rate at the wrong place
Red
The normal awards that everyone else has
“Wog” isn’t really used as a slur here, at least in my experience. It’s far more akin to “Pom” than “n*****r”.
It’s pretty well embraced by the Greek and Italian people. It might be less acceptable now but in the 1990s and 2000s it was commonly used in a fun and non derogatory way by everyone. Plenty of Greek/Italian comedians made bulk cash playing on the word and the stereotype.
Australians really embraced immigrants from Italy and Greece in the middle of the 20th century and part of that was always taking the piss. I’m sure it was used badly sometimes, but overall wog wasn’t used in a really derogatory way.
Red
The normal awards that everyone else has
Yeh fair enough. I just read the wiki page for wog and it does a good job explaining the differences
In university in the U.S., my Pakistani friends definitely used the term to refer to themselves (and I think unironically so, without thinking of it as a slur). I think the historical context is nonexistent.
Now that I live in the U.K., it is clear it is basically analogous to the n word given the historical context.
I probably have some sympathy for Gary Ballance who didn't grow up here, and may not have known the context. But his apology was weak at best.
Aritro
International Regular
Lol, I'm sure it would have been pretty clear what the context was to anyone who's lived in the UK for more than about five minutes. I didn't even visit the UK til I was 20, and I knew what the word meant over there when i was about 14 just from reading posts about it on a football forum.
He might have thought he was doing it as a joke without realising it was being internalised a different way but it wasn't because he didn't know the context. No one's that obtuse.
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smash84
The Tiger King
I think this was probably the case, at least the understanding I got from his statements.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Seems to have gone down the well trodden but credulity stretching Wayne Hennessy route signposted "I didn't know it was offensive, guv".
He's got previous for this too, hasn't he?
wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
He referred to Ashwell Prince as a kolpak; not racist, although the rest of what he said was pretty charmless.
He also said '**** off back to your own country'.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
So you can put someone like Ollie Robinson in a different bucket. They tweet something when they are a kid, it comes to light when they’re older and they pay the price. Whether you think it’s right or wrong, the logic is there.
Gale was already a public figure back then. So what does suspending him now really say about the organisation?
Kind of symptomatic of the whole culture that appears to be in place at YCCC
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
David Warner as the hero who stood up to racist taunts when punching Joe Root would be hilarious.
But I dont expect any dirt to come out on any current England player. Its way too much to lose for ECB.
But I dont expect any dirt to come out on any current England player. Its way too much to lose for ECB.
Burgey
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Personally find it pretty hard to believe an insipid blancmange like Joe Root would be a racist, but then again life is full of surprises I suppose.
Shri
Mr. Glass
i don't have proof and only a hunch. and what i say can obviously be applied to anyone that you look into with tinted glasses looking for smoke but this did happen:
“From my point of view, I just want my friend to be OK,” said Root. “Anyone who knows Ben, he always puts other people first. Now is an opportunity for him to put himself first, to take time to look after himself and get to a good place again. Hopefully, that can be sooner rather than later.
“Moeen has chosen to go home. It’s obviously been a very tricky tour for him. As mentioned at the start, if players feel like they need to get out of the bubble, then that’s been an option. With Moeen it wasn’t more asking if he wanted to stay, it was a decision he had chosen,” Root said at the time.
and then warner said he punched him because he was wearing a wig as a beard and carrying on in a racist way. its ****ing warner's words but still lmao
would be ****ing awesome if he cops a ban just as he has making 50s into hundreds for once
GoodAreasShane
Cricketer Of The Year
It is well known that young Root was very much a mouthy little prick
But if he was a mouthy little racist prick or not is a different question entirely
But if he was a mouthy little racist prick or not is a different question entirely
yeah same here, i used it once on here several years back, was just referring to pakistanis in general but some brits were shocked by it, they explained the negative connotation and i stopped using it...
Shady Slim
International Coach
warner punching a bloke for being racist given he demanded rohit sharma "speak english" when india had toured here in 2014 seems kind of rich tbqh