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Norwich - the gift that keeps on giving! 13:27 - Jun 9 with 4809 views

Unreal.

Their own fans are going mental (rightly so) over a quite unbelievably bad decision they've made to feature a Pride Wall (during Pride Month) which sounds great right?

Until you realise the wall is just a load of homophobic insults! What were they thinking!

Their own LGBTQ+ group have absolutely ripped into them. The club themselves proclaimed it as a masterpiece on Twitter.

What on earth are they doing! How could they not have consulted their own LGBTQ+ group over Pride Month to realise how terrible a decision this was!

I'd link the post but don't want to cause offence to anyone! Think of a homophobic term and it's on there though.

[Post edited 9 Jun 2022 13:29]

Norwich - the gift that keeps on giving! on 16:09 - Jun 9 with 968 views

PhilTWTD

Reminded me rather of this.

Norwich - the gift that keeps on giving! on 17:01 - Jun 9 with 877 views

galacticoblue

Norwich - the gift that keeps on giving! on 16:09 - Jun 9 by PhilTWTD
Reminded me rather of this.

Ah haaa!! Brilliant, ahead of his time

Norwich - the gift that keeps on giving! on 18:13 - Jun 9 with 839 views

Veggie

The weird thing is that even this is in its way prejudiced against lesbians. Pretty much all of the terms are aimed at gay men. Where’s the balance? Why no Lezza, Lesbie Friends, Carpet Muncher, Baggage Handler, Drinking from the furry cup, Woman in comfortable shoes?

[Post edited 9 Jun 2022 18:16]

Norwich - the gift that keeps on giving! on 18:33 - Jun 9 with 808 views

mrshallisfit

Uphill Gardener is not on there. Or Chutney Ferret.

Norwich - the gift that keeps on giving! on 21:07 - Jun 9 with 677 views

Deano69

Norwich - the gift that keeps on giving! on 13:30 - Jun 9 by Zx1988
I can see both sides here. The wall was then covered up by various players/club representatives throwing rainbow-coloured paint at it, and the idea works in practice. The problem is that a lot of the media surrounding it simply featured a big wall with lots of homophobic abuse scrawled on it: (oh, and whatever 'Sea Queen' is meant to mean...)

And probably taught a few new ones to the utter idiots that will chant/post etc this sort of thing

What was the thinking behind it, bizarre???

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Norwich - the gift that keeps on giving! on 21:14 - Jun 9 with 675 views

BlueBadger

Norwich - the gift that keeps on giving! on 13:30 - Jun 9 by Zx1988
I can see both sides here. The wall was then covered up by various players/club representatives throwing rainbow-coloured paint at it, and the idea works in practice. The problem is that a lot of the media surrounding it simply featured a big wall with lots of homophobic abuse scrawled on it: (oh, and whatever 'Sea Queen' is meant to mean...)

At absolute best, it's cack-handed but well meaning.

Even their fan groups are saying 'seriously lads'.

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/norwich-city-proud-canaries-pride-campaign-homophob

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Norwich - the gift that keeps on giving! on 02:13 - Jun 10 with 574 views

ArnoldMoorhen

Norwich - the gift that keeps on giving! on 13:38 - Jun 9 by STYG

Fair play to them for trying to do something positive, but it's so stupid I cannot believe it was ever sanctioned.

I just can't believe nobody realised that if you did the exact same thing to say racism and had certain words visible and then covered up, it wouldn't cause a huge uproar (rightly) and that by doing the same thing to a different group of people that have been prejudiced against and persecuted just for being themselves, that they wouldn't have the exact same reaction.

Somebody in the media/PR department at Carrow Road had an idea for something visual and striking, because that is what they are trained to do. But they failed to think through the implications of the content.

It has a parallel with the Italian FA anti-racism campaign that was visual and striking, but, shall we say, reinforced ultra-negative thinking around race:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/italian-soccer-condemned-using-monkey-painti

(The link above includes a description, so if you don't want to see it, don't click it)

It's just a very basic rule that a campaign promoting positive support for a particular group should include members of that group in the planning.

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