UK is Fucked
UK is Fucked
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- terrible source yes but one of the few that hasn't edited his language.fadein11
- I could chat so much about this, after a entire youth playing cricket for school, clubs etc. This problem wasn't there back then (80's) fromfadein11
- my experience. Noone gave a shit about race. We are reverting as a nation.fadein11
- Admittedly I only had one county trial and got hit in the ribs by a very fast bowler. But sport just didn't seem racist in my world back then. Noone cared.fadein11
- This was a shock. I played cricket throughout my childhood. 1987-96 schools/clubs. It always had a lot of Asian involvement and I never saw any racism ever.Hayzilla
- Yep. precisely my experience.fadein11
- I certainly wasn't arguing against him either, just amazed where this country is right now.fadein11
- ^ Oh I'm not doubting him either. They sound like a shower of absolute cunts at the top level. Disgusting. It is just a shock to me personally. Sack em all.Hayzilla
- yep, awful, no arguments. he's 100% genuinefadein11
- Listening to this report made me think of the racial divide growing up back home in Scunthorpe. The language used mirrors...Ianbolton
- the same laddish behaviours seen throughout my school year, learning from the fears of our parents in an ever changing mining townIanbolton
- Seeing comedians like Jim Davidson say the word 'paki' only normalised this divisive behaviour, and to see it still used today is horribleIanbolton
- oh you are totally correct, the UK went through the whole PC/culture war in the 80's, a whole generation of UK comedians were cancelled overnight and rightly sofadein11
- But my experience of school / sport / life we all got along, yes there was occasional banter but I was clearly lucky growing up with very few of these issuesfadein11
- or lucky that our group didn't inflict this on others I should say. Hard to believe, this happened in top flight sport in 2017fadein11
- I've worked in sport for 7 years of my life and the fight against racism is stronger now than ever. Mainstream sport is the perfect vessel...Ianbolton
- to create a narrative when 40-50k football supporters sit there ever week seeing a movement like 'stamp out racism' play out.Ianbolton
- it spreads as each of those old school racists realise that their 'team' has a togetherness regardless of race. At school, racism was never that...Ianbolton
- much of a big deal - especially during sports - as generally everyone is usually too busy pissing about being a kid. Occassional banter is how it lived onIanbolton
- Maybe it’s something we notice more as we get older. As kids we’re blind to politics and race, we’re all just kids. I notice this with my kid’s soccer team_niko
- 20 kids from 20 different cultures and they couldn’t care less. I wonder though when they become teens and identity and belonging starts to matter more_niko
- Maybe this is when some ugly thoughts and actions start to take shape. I mean teenagers are little shits at the best of times, partly due to hormones._niko
- So I guess what I’m saying is it’s not the times but the time in our lives._niko
- and it's funny because as the dads who watch our kids we all get along famously, drinks, trips, gatherings, or just shooting the shit on the sidelines nightly._niko
- we've all become a close knit family, but when we were in our teens and early twenties, we were skinheads, Tamil Tigers, rudeboys, islamists, mobsters etc_niko
- and tended to stick within our own tribe. So I guess we mature and grow out of it at some point and revert back to the wonderful joy of childhood._niko
- Turns out Azeem isn’t a big fan of the Jews. he apologized for the ‘racist banter’ so it’s cool nowGnash