Now I know some people are stupid.
In the words of the poet that is Super Hans 'People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis, you can’t trust people, Jez'.
But leaving aside how disgusting racism is, surely anything in life that we do, every decision is a case of 'risk versus reward?'
Surely the most uneducated, scum have the ability to sit down and process what it is they are seeking to gain from this. Best case scenario for the racist is McGoldrick gets really upset about it and speaks out about how upset he is. That gives this person some sort of satisfaction so significant that they are willing to risk family and friends disowning them, losing their jobs, being seriously hurt by a member of the public or going to prison? Is that what we are saying? There are people willing to risk all of that for a moment of pleasure they derive from feeling that they've rattled a celebrity?
In 2020 it is beyond me how anyone can be born and not realise they've done literally f*** all in that process. They could have been born male or female, white, black, Asian, gay, rich, poor, disabled and they have absolutely zero input in that process. None.
It's all an absolute lottery. As a white, heterosexual, English male I sometimes feel incredibly guilty that 50% of the population are disadvantaged to me as women. Then within being a man, there are large numbers of black men and gay men and people with disabilities that will also have been disadvantaged as a result of this lottery and through absolutely no fault of their own.
How can people not see how wrong this is? At what point do people realise that there are good and bad and that all that matters is somebodies character? How can people like me, white males, not be aware of the struggles that everyone else outside that group has had and continues to had. It's not possible to have your head in the sand to that level.
Unfortunately, this country is run by 'elites' who were largely born into a way of life that most of us can dream about and lack the compassion or empathy to realise that others were not so fortunate, and so they simply do not care and things continue.
I can't be alone in growing up in the 80's and 90's seeing black and Asian people becoming more familiar in our communities and imagining by the time my own kids were growing up, racism wouldn't be a thing that even happened in the UK.
How naïve I was! [Post edited 13 Jul 2020 9:25]
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