Hope everybody is taking note of which posters are coming into a thread called 'England Belongs To Us' and ate choosing to attack the 'hard left' and defend Patel rather than unequivocally condemn those who have been racially abusing our young heroes.
Makes you wonder whether they truly believe that England belongs to all of us.
They might have valid points (though I don't think they so) but even if they do, wouldn't it be better that they kept those thoughts to themselves on this occasion and instead simply condemn the racist abuse?
Do people not think that such arguments provide the racists with more confidence to keep on abusing?
(
I don't see why we should play your stuipid game.)
I took time to start reading the article and it starts OK, but about half way through from "George Floyd" onwards, it's clearly just someone using football to promote their hard left, anti-government political agenda.
It seems to be more about taking pot shots that those the bloke doesn't like rather than anything positive or constructive and in fact little about football.
I'd suggest people like this on the hard left are going to do no more to ease division in football and the country than those they despise.
The vast majority of people "
condemn racism".
But a similar "vast majority" experience a massive disconnect between the Twit-storms that get amplified by the media...
...and their "
lived experience".
(
... which of course the Woke are not allowed to challenge.)
Plenty of us know people of African, Indian (or whatever) heritage.
They do not report racist abuse as a daily occurence (
but probably in their lifetime).
They do not all believe they are perpetual "victims".
Difficulties they have experienced are just as likely to be the same difficulties as experienced by people with pale skin.
(
"wrong" accent, overlooked for promotion, an outsider to the prevailing clique)
So the "problem" is not only massively over-stated - but it is mis-framed as "race" rather than "culture".
And the "solutions" just keep stoking division.
Ethnic monitoring - lumping people into imagined, homogenous "Communities" based on race ?
Asking school children to divide into white and non-white ?
Dismissing the poor outcomes of white, working-class boys - because they are the "wrong sort of victim" ?
Howling down those who disagree with the above "solutions" and observations
The list goes on.