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comment by stillhatehooijdonk (U7334)
posted 16 hours, 19 minutes ago

It will be intersting to see how many 'forest fans' sing about not being english to the leicester fans if we do get foreign investors.
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probably none as the pathetic cry babies will cry racism again.

that's the calibre of human being they bring with them to away games

yeah - was slightly racist though, wasn't it

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Not really stillhate, IF we get taken over by the Kuwatis or anybody foreign invester and opposing fans were to sign that, i wouldn't be bothered in the slightest, infact i'd have a bit of a laugh and take some cash out my wallet and flash it. But to start making it into somesort of rasist issue is absurd.

People take some incidents at football matches way too serious and out of context.

comment by stillhatehooijdonk (U7334)
posted 15 hours, 2 minutes ago

yeah - was slightly racist though, wasn't it
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in what respect is singing 'you're not english anymore' a racial slur?

any money it was a few lowlife white boys that reported it as such for no other reason than to maliciously make trouble for forest with no regard for the public money totally wasted because the police were obliged to follow it up.

whoever made the complaint should be charged and criminalised themselves, simple as that

Little leicester.

Never won a proper trophy.

Well, I'm not going to get into the debate again, but, the whole idea of singing 'your not english anymore' does imply that there is something wrong with not being english. hence, being english is held up as being better than anything else. So, the implication, the opwners of leicster being Thai, or, worse still, the residents of leicester being largely Asian, makes them worse than the British. So, slightly racist either way. Being half Indian myself, it made me rather uncomfortable.
I'm not saying it was the Holocaust or anything, and I don't think it was intended to cause major offence. I just think it was a little bit stupid and thoughtless, and was likely to cause worse offence to some people than it did to others.

comment by stillhatehooijdonk (U7334)
posted 9 hours, 8 minutes ago

Well, I'm not going to get into the debate again, but, the whole idea of singing 'your not english anymore' does imply that there is something wrong with not being english. hence, being english is held up as being better than anything else.
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an english person believeing the english are better than everyone else would only make them the same as any other nationality.

thais feel the same about thailand............ they also openly use the blanket term 'farang' (foreigner) to refer to non thais. nobody takes offence to it there but can you imagine the scandal if i turned to you as a half indian and said 'oi, foreigner'?

people in this country have no idea what racism is anymore. black is a word in the english language so why should i apply for written authorisation from the reverand jessie jackson to use it?

I'm in agreement that the way we are careful over using words such as black is ridiculous, but that really isn't the same. If a person feels their country is better then fine. but to sing about it in an attempt to make derogatory commments to people is at least bordering on racism. I for one don't feel better than anyone because I'm english. At all.

This is way off topic lads....

Maybe it's a good time to close this thread