crissindahouse said:
Kasz216 said:
Lostplanet22 said:
Kasz216 said: Seems excessive... especially since if you jailed all the racists in relation to football there would be well... a LOT. Wasn't there a french politician a while back who was complaining because most of the french team was black? |
Doesn't sound that offensive depends what kind of word he used in french for 'black'..
Curious what this guy said though and i guess they made an example of him and that is something I can't disagree with.
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To be fair I think it happened back in 2007 now that I think about it. There was a whole big story about when Obama was elected just how shockingly racist a lot of the coverage and commentary was and in general a primer about how a lot of europeon comments on race even by leaders would shock americans.
Pretty sure this was the incident.
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/175696
In the US people get the hell beat out of them for using terms that are sometimes racist in a non-racist way.
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you should specify countries. there are so many different cultures/laws and whatever in europe...
just because some of european countries have the same currency and we have the eu doesn't mean a swede or sweden is like italy or an italian (as example)
it's like i would say "damn canada or mexico" because of george bush.
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If we were talking about sexism sure. Racism, though the US still has a ways to go itself, i'd put it up against any country in europe as far as recent history goes.