Marstonbear
Well-Known Member
If Mendy didn’t take offence that’s the matter over surely?
There's plenty of hunks trying to be offended for himIf Mendy didn’t take offence that’s the matter over surely?
Correct and this is my biggest issue with this type of thing and also with sectarianism and sexism.If all the professionally offended think they're doing a favour for race relations,then they're not.
Just pissing people off,who wouldn't have given it much thought,but who are now white and privileged.
So it’ll be my second sentence that was/is correct then?Doesn't look like it...
There's plenty of hunks trying to be offended for him
And plenty of banjos dying to be offended by those they perceive are getting offended for him.
Here’s the thing, there’s a black guy on my team at work, an Arsenal fan. We were talking about this yesterday. I asked him what he thought about it and his response was that comparing the picture of Mendy as a kid to the Conguito man (he didn’t know what it was but I lived in Spain for a couple of years so filled him in) was quite offensive.
I said Mendy apparently didn’t take offence to it. His reaction, “Well, if it was aimed at me, I would.”
So the question is, is he wrong?
Is his response invalid?
Is he just looking to be offended, a snow flake, a mope, a middle class lefty?
Or is it actually a bit racist and that’s why people are commenting?
It wasn't aimed at him though, ot was to his mate who wasn't 0ffendedAnd plenty of banjos dying to be offended by those they perceive are getting offended for him.
Here’s the thing, there’s a black guy on my team at work, an Arsenal fan. We were talking about this yesterday. I asked him what he thought about it and his response was that comparing the picture of Mendy as a kid to the Conguito man (he didn’t know what it was but I lived in Spain for a couple of years so filled him in) was quite offensive.
I said Mendy apparently didn’t take offence to it. His reaction, “Well, if it was aimed at me, I would.”
So the question is, is he wrong?
Is his response invalid?
Is he just looking to be offended, a snow flake, a mope, a middle class lefty?
Or is it actually a bit racist and that’s why people are commenting?
Yes he's wrong, because it wasn't aimed at him.
Not only that, if that's the rule book we need to abide by then basically anyone can say they are offended by something and therefore they must be right? After all, they are offended.
Or David Robertsoncareful now Silva might post that to Sané
I’ll be sure to tell him he’s wrong to find it offensive then.
John Barnes is fantastic when speaking about these sort of issues. TV broadcasters hate it though and want him to start digging out Bernardo Silva etc
You clearly misunderstood the great man's words. It does not say it is 'wrong' to find it offensive. It says 'You are offended? Oh well, tough shit, it happens'.I’ll be sure to tell him he’s wrong to find it offensive then.
John Barnes is fantastic when speaking about these sort of issues. TV broadcasters hate it though and want him to start digging out Bernardo Silva etc
Its when a person cant think of a reason for their argument sothey refer to mythical shit.You do know what white privilege means?
Clearly he cant do anything like that because he doesnt have the white privelige that all of us have.Because society has brainwashed them that this is not allowed and is unacceptable, therefore they must speak up about it.
Never mind the guy who the 'joke' was in reference to, he doesn't give a shit...
Or maybe they feel they have to speak up for him, as he is an oppressed minority (who just happens to be a famous footballer who is rolling in money, and could voice his opinion to a wide public audience about it any time he felt like doing so....IF he felt like doing so).
Its when a person cant think of a reason for their argument sothey refer to mythical shit.
White privilege isn’t something that was made up on Twitter by Owen Jones and a bunch of Me Too wankers a few years ago to piss off whitebread conservatives like you, it has its origins in the early black rights movement of the 1930s.
The original fatuous guff I replied to, something along the lines of, “Aye, but if a black guy posts a picture of a white guy alongside the Milky Bar Kid, that’s alright then?” is the very definition of what people refer to as white privilege because, as anyone with half a brain knows, a majority cannot be oppressed by a minority.
So no, it’s not mythical shit, but then that’s probably what I should have expected from someone branding it as such to dismiss something they don’t actually understand.
You are beyond embarrassing.
Interesting seeing what John Barnes (a black man) had to say on the matter.