Good question. It's undeniable that it's prevalence has sky-rocketed over the last decade. Which is probably why it has now been given a catchy name, also to help people "fight" against it.
It does seem fair though if it is just one match, again we have to see this play out, if it's more than that I think it will be excessive.
My point was more that the nature of the process means that it's not clear to me what the punishment actually is right now, which in itself is unfair because being vague is capricious all on its own. I don't have any problem with him being scratched out of a single Test match, I think that's actually a reasonable and proportionate response. If the ECB came out tomorrow and said "yadda yadda yadda we've looked into it, it's unacceptable, Olly will miss the next game but we're confident he's learned his lesson and this sends a strong signal to Not Do This and we're looking forward to moving on and letting Olly grow into a productive international career etc etc" and drew a line under it after the ban that would be entirely fine by me.
Ahh, the old one of my best mates is black, even though he isn't argument, Kudos.
How is it a punishment though? He made these comments 8 years ago as a teenager, there's no indication that he is in any way racist and that a punishment is going to help in any way. If it's to punish him for being stupid and not deleting old comments then at least that's logical.
I think I've said this before, but in the end it's pretty hard for a board that keeps on parroting anti-racist, anti-***ist, anti-bullying messages to let someone slide totally when they did the opposite in their tweets, whilst a full-grown adult and contracted to a pro cricket team.
My political party actually has a record of my worst forum posts. Throwing Stuff didn't even make the top 20.
It's a thing, whatever term you call it. The outraged 'mob' on social media, baying for blood. It's a new thing, and it's a thing - just because you say over and over it's not, doesn't make it so.
A lot of people seem to attribute part of the blame to the ECB, and in particular their media/comms team for not having the foresight to delete it. So why aren't they in the gun publicly?
And just because you say over and over it's a thing, doesn't make it so.
Surely the issue here is that they didn't run a check on this in the first place.
The trouble is you're arguing with someone who perceives reality based on their political views.
Yeah, it's this and also the lame apology they made him read out.
That wasn't me that suggested they were to be blamed. It was other posters in here, Michael Vaughan etc. In fact GIMH just echoed the exact sentiment.
OK, might let it lie then.
Whether or not it exists is not debatable. We are literally talking about an occurrence of it right now. I thought we'd established that.
Wow imagine someone doing that, pretty weird
Look at this **** cancelling the discussion
Who's Robinson
