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Social media blackout 16:28 - Apr 29 with 1749 views

Boyos what do you think about all of us doing the same on here? Just for the weekend.
Apologies in advance Phil Gav and Mark if it puts a dent in the hobnob fund.

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Social media blackout on 21:29 - Apr 29 with 313 views

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Social media blackout on 18:08 - Apr 29 by jeera
I used to love fig rolls when I was a kid. Might be too sweet for me now. Might try some out. [Post edited 29 Apr 2021 18:09]

Fig rolls are a cunning way for parents to get their kids to eat fruit.

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Social media blackout on 07:22 - Apr 30 with 269 views

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Social media blackout on 16:52 - Apr 29 by Illinoisblue
Nope. The blackout is, I’m sure, we’ll intentioned but will achieve very little. So long as people can post anonymously on twitter etc then you’ll always have scumbags doing their thing.

I’ll be boycotting social media over the weekend in solidarity but you are right saying it will achieve little in way of Twitter policing their forum better.

I did the same last year when there was an organised 48 hour boycott of Twitter over Wiley’s antisemitic tweets that took 48 hours to take down. Similar stuff to what he he tweeted continues to be posted.

Twitter may not change but at least the publicity will highlight the vile abuse that black players receive from anonymous knuckle dragged out there. So maybe some good will come from it.

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Social media blackout on 09:28 - Apr 30 with 245 views

Guthrum

To be honest, a social media lockdown will really only affect those who already don't think it's reasonable to hurl racial abuse at players.

The trolls, who are only seeking someone to scratch their attention-seeking itch, but lack the social skills for proper interaction (likely having been dumped in front of the TV from an early age), will simply go off to revile pop stars or soap actors instead.

The genuine, conscious racists (of whom there are relatively few*) will grumble about "wokeness" intruding into their master race fantasies, building up a pathetic sense of martyrdom and self-justification.

What's needed is proper education on the topic. By that I mean across the whole of media and cultural life, not just in school. The rooting out of "them and us" approaches in all of life (including cheap politics). Pointing out that while people may be different, that is culture, not race. That race in the way the racists use it - skin colour, for example - is a genetically pretty meaningless concept**.

* The bulk of racism is centred around thoughtless attitudes, casual discrimination and cultural assumptions, rather than the deliberate, targeted version.

** Originated in the 19th and early 20th centuries by pan-German nationalists and those seeking non-nakedly economic justifications for colonialism. Based on a warped reading of Darwin applied to a skewed view of the human race.

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