| Wilfred Zaha tweet 15:16 - Jul 12 with 4596 views | Mullet |
I’ll Remove it actually given it’s content, but he’s made it public and rightly received nothing but backing from the public.
However, Ian Wright makes this valid point too.
It isn’t enough to call it out or just say they’re not one of us is it? I get why people do it, and it’s not exactly misguided but these people are amongst us all not just in a football context. We don’t instinctively reject their Britishness or class do we? It seems the reaction to BLM from threatened little boys is inevitable and this will likely lead to a conviction judging by tweets from West Mids Police, but it does make you wonder what the next steps are for football.
At times the homophobia, racism etc makes me think the game is just backward and will always be so but that isn’t true either. This is a social media/education/acceptance problem that combines to put people like Zaha in this position of waking up to abuse because of their profile and identity. When people can hide behind tribalism and keyboards they’re always going to resort to this lowest denominator type of stuff aren’t they?
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| Wilfred Zaha tweet on 21:38 - Jul 12 with 460 views | vapour_trail |
| Wilfred Zaha tweet on 20:43 - Jul 12 by footers |
Disagree. Think a lot of people are underestimating the will and intelligence of some 12 year olds. They're not children really, are they? They have far more autonomy and 'sense' (sort of) than some seem willing to accept. |
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| Wilfred Zaha tweet on 21:48 - Jul 12 with 436 views | footers |
| Wilfred Zaha tweet on 21:38 - Jul 12 by vapour_trail |
And where is that borne from? |
Basically I don't think their parents are either racist or negligent necessarily.
12 year olds laugh at parental blocks on the internet. They're far more savvy than some give them credit for.
Of course there are some who'll be born into a racist/bigoted environment, but I wouldn't be so quick to tarnish any parents with that brush when the material is so readily available without them. [Post edited 12 Jul 2020 21:48]
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| Wilfred Zaha tweet on 21:57 - Jul 12 with 418 views | SpruceMoose |
| Wilfred Zaha tweet on 21:48 - Jul 12 by footers |
Basically I don't think their parents are either racist or negligent necessarily.
12 year olds laugh at parental blocks on the internet. They're far more savvy than some give them credit for.
Of course there are some who'll be born into a racist/bigoted environment, but I wouldn't be so quick to tarnish any parents with that brush when the material is so readily available without them. [Post edited 12 Jul 2020 21:48]
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I think the general principle of Shït in = Shït out holds unfortunately, but sometimes you just get a wrong 'un who, like you say, has access to a great incubator of filth online.
Sometimes the opposite can happen too though. Garbage parents can produce children with solid morals, they just have to work that much harder to maintain them. |  |
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| Wilfred Zaha tweet on 21:58 - Jul 12 with 418 views | jeera |
| Wilfred Zaha tweet on 21:48 - Jul 12 by footers |
Basically I don't think their parents are either racist or negligent necessarily.
12 year olds laugh at parental blocks on the internet. They're far more savvy than some give them credit for.
Of course there are some who'll be born into a racist/bigoted environment, but I wouldn't be so quick to tarnish any parents with that brush when the material is so readily available without them. [Post edited 12 Jul 2020 21:48]
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Although there's not much to disagree with anywhere on this thread about the various possibilities, the one thing that stands out is the choice of language.
In a world where the 'n' word is as popular as it's ever been with youngsters - albeit the nuances surrounding it and the spelling etc - the Tweet didn't contain that.
The choice of words came straight from another era, directly or indirectly, and rolled off the keyboard far too easily.
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