what a ridiculous comment. Doesn't matter how "weak" the insult may be if there is any hint of racism attached to it throw the book at the fan and the club. Its disgusting that this should even be a thing these days and even more disgusting that any attempts to report it and stop it are treated as it being a youngster being over sensitive
I'm sorry, but the ridiculous (and ridiculously reactionary) comment is yours, and I hope in slower time you will reconsider and retract.
At the moment, there is an unverified/uncorroborated allegation, with no details in the public forum of what was alleged to have taken place. Of course, if it is evidenced that something offensive was said then action has to be taken, one would assume by the Police (though the repsonsibility for an isolated incident is on the person making the comment, not the club whose game it happened to occur at) - and the player should be supported in that process.
But it is not unreasonable - this in a time when I read on my way into work this morning that the National Gallery had been accused of "rascism to those who don't like paintings", when people confuse and intersperse race/religion/nationality/gender/identity etc, when you can be accused of "rascism" for tweeting that you don't like Mexican food and many other such examples - to want to know what was actually said and judge accordingly, rather than leap to judgement. Having done a lot of work in the area of equal opportunities, it concerns me greatly that the move within society to rush to take offence - and I am speaking now in generalist terms rather than about this incident - and to cite alleged rascism (you can insert many other isms here) - has the net effect of cheapening those occasions when real and damaging discrimination and abuse occurs.
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