Quote ="TheDreadnought"Following the Manchester Derby on Saturday I am convinced that this will never end, I'm a lot of things and some on here will probably be able to outline what I am but I'm more than satisfied at night knowing I'm not a racist and couldn't care less who puts a Trinity shirt on.'"
Of course, it won't. This is what the right-on brigade don't get, so convinced are they by their self-perceived sense of moral superiority and thus their ability to redeem the irredeemable.
Let's get this straight, most racists are just idiots articulating their frustration at their own crapness by belittling others. That sort of racism can be moderated, not got rid of but using societies best efforts it can be restrained. It will never go completely and will always be there to be exploited, human nature end of.
Some, however, are not and these are the ones who beat the anti-racists on every level. They know exactly what they are doing, they know it's morally wrong, they know it kills innocent people and they just don't care. They never will care, they will never be redeemed, they just love to hate it's how they are it where they draw power from and some are very clever with it.
This is why I defend the rights of bigots to say whatever they want so long as it's within the law. I chuffing well want to know what these creeps really think, I don't want to wake up one morning and find these people in power because nobody knew they were swine! I know this from personal experience, I worked with a guy once, he was an absolutely lovely bloke in every way but one, he was as you might have guessed a quite vicious racist. Nowadays because he was quite smart and because things have changed he'd have never expressed himself and I'd have probably never known and I'm pretty sure I'd have got involved in a much deeper friendship before I found out. Terrifies me what I may have innocently got myself involved in.
I'm not suggesting we let people get away with monkey chants etc. What I am saying is that within the law let these people say what they feel the need to say, then as with all crackpots ignore them as we seem quite capable of doing with most religions. Keep the pressure on the authorities to do their job and punish where the law demands, let the educators educate (within reason) that any form of discrimination is wrong. Above all though, stop feeding them with publicity, I know it's hard but there has to be a point where black players ignore isolated incidents as to do otherwise only benefits the perpetrator, I know that's controversial but its probably sensible, but then again I'm not black!. More obviously stop the nonsense about apologising for historical racism, we didn't do that, it's not our fault and it only feeds resentment amongst those who are already borderline racist, don't give them the push. There are grey areas in life and compromises, unfortunately, have to be made, hunting down every single racist won't work, for everyone you martyr ten more will be created, history teaches us that every time.
It really is a stinker and I fully accept I may be wrong on some issues but I can only say it as I see it. As an aside most chimps have white faces.
