The PC and Perpetually Offended Brigade

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

This is why these social media enemies of the people/saboteurs/what ever ye call them in the Politburo should never, ever apologise.

I'm a bit confused as to who you're referring to there, but politics just is about diplomacy and compromise and all the rest, and much like a politician who wanted to get elected would find himself forced to apologize if he stupidly made a joke in public about people from a certain area of his constituency - regardless of how funny people from outside of that area found it -, it was politically obvious that the head of Basketball Ireland would have to apologize for this joke, even if it was only a joke. The position of head of any national sporting body is absolutely a political one, and if something similar had happened in the 80s, it would have been the same. It's just politics. I know ye are all wrapped up in the idea that a "PC brigade" are constantly persecuting good folk, but that doesn't change the reality of the world, and if you're paid to promote basketball and then end up poking fun at the ethnic group most closely associated with the sport, you're gonna have to apologize, just like any politician at any point in history would have. Not PC gone mad, not persecution, just politics.

[Caomhaoin]

Outside of the USA and to an extent France, the vast majority of the best teams comprise of primarily white players, whether it's Lithuania, Serbia, Argentina, Slovenia, Spain or Australia. More than one perspective when it comes to that sport, just like there is more to basketball than the NBA.

My point is, an apology is an exercise in futility. The mob not forgive or forget. You might as well double down, fuck 'em.

[astfgyl]

Here, just spotted this on my travels. It might help to put an end some of the arguments on here for once and for all

https://www.facebook.com/briankennedymusic/videos/take-two-black-lives-matter/260785135169761/

[Carnage]

Jesus.

[Caomhaoin]

He's not looking after himself.

[Eoin McLove]

Black Lads Matter.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

That message needed to be put in a box, that box in a car, and that car driven off a very tall cliff.

[livingabortion]

He looks like he's ready for his box.

[Eoin McLove]

Here, just spotted this on my travels. It might help to put an end some of the arguments on here for once and for all

https://www.facebook.com/briankennedymusic/videos/take-two-black-lives-matter/260785135169761/

Poor oul Brain looks like he's been up all night working those inspiring lyrics. I think he needs more acid.

[astfgyl]

I see that was take two as well. Hopefully the first one was even more inspiring

[Caomhaoin]

Why are the media and police  saying that graffiti on the Rashford mural was 'racially aggravated'? Same with that homosexual who was murdered in Galicia here in Spain was homophobic? There is no evidence for either.

[astfgyl]

It's now racist to have a go at a black player for missing a pen. Saying that, there are some genuinely thick, racist cunts getting on his case and stoking the fires quite nicely.

[Caomhaoin]

The Twitter twats? Absolutely.

However, it's clear you cannot have a go at black lads for any reason, unless you're having a go at Candace Owens or Kanye West. I mean, Chris is blacker than them!

[astfgyl]

Black republicans are fair game, due to their associations with whiteness.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Why are the media and police  saying that graffiti on the Rashford mural was 'racially aggravated'? Same with that homosexual who was murdered in Galicia here in Spain was homophobic? There is no evidence for either.

The media do whatever they want, in one direction or the other. As for the police, in the first case, I imagine, for the moment, it's just the general context, giving only circumstantial evidence, so you're right that there's no proof just yet. In the second case, the Spanish police have been fairly insistent that they don't know yet, no? People with him have said homophobic insults were used during the killing, which may not be strong evidence, but is witness evidence, however reliable or not.

Not really surprised that this is the dimension you're put out by in the two cases though, the former not really that serious in the grand scheme of things, but the second an absolutely brutal, senseless killing. Something stirred up proper hate in the 6 to 10 people said to have beaten him to death, continuing even after he was visibly motionless.