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For those who dont know, John Terry is white, Luis Suarez is hispanic.  The posts are both from this past season.&#xD;&#xA;Interesting...

vanzack · Answer

For those who dont know, John Terry is white, Luis Suarez is hispanic.  The posts are both from this past season.&#xD;&#xA;Interesting...

SwishSwish1234 · Answer

Suarez used the word &#x27;Negrito&#x27;, Which I assume is Spanish for the N word, Terry used the words &#x27;Fuck off you Black fucking box&#x27;, I dont think there&#x27;s as much bias as you think Van.

HutchEmAll · Answer

If this is true (I&#x27;ll take your word for it), I wonder why they used the exact same language in the body of both articles.  I would have thought that the wording in the Terry article would remain what it was and then they would make reference to a racial slur in the Suarez article.  To me, referencing a person&#x27;s skin color in an insult is different than using a racial epithet.  But maybe others don&#x27;t feel that way.

SwishSwish1234 · Answer

Suarez claimed he used the word &#x27;Negrito&#x27; in a friendly manner, He claimed that&#x27;s how Latin people would sometimes address their Black friends in a loving way back home in South America, John Terry claims to have used the words &#x27;Fucking Black box&#x27; as a response to what the Black player claimed Terry called him, So in essence here is what Terry claims he said &#x27;No I never called you that, I never called you a Black fucking box, You knob head&#x27;. https://socqer.com/questions/1478/what-did-john-terry-say-to-anton-ferdinand/&#xD;&#xA;That&#x27;s a link to the clip of the moment Terry said those words

vanzack · Answer

The language is exactly the same in both charges.

I understand you could INTERPRET the actions differently, but the fact is that both of them were charged with the same exact thing, and got a different headline.

Could be as innocent as a different headline writer on a different day, who knows. Just interesting to me.

SwishSwish1234 · Answer

[Quote: Originally Posted by vanzack]  The language is exactly the same in both charges.&#xD;&#xA;I understand you could INTERPRET the actions differently, but the fact is that both of them were charged with the same exact thing, and got a different headline.&#xD;&#xA;Could be as innocent as a  different headline writer on a different day, who knows.  Just interesting to me.&#xD;&#xA;  [/Quote]The bias may of been more because Terry is English and Suarez is Uruguayan as opposed to Terry being White and Suarez being Hispanic, To be perfectly honest most Black people in this country view Suarez as White as it is, The White/Hispanic differences that occur in the states arent so prevalent over here.

HutchEmAll · Answer

I just think people are way to sensitive.  It was during the heat of the battle.  Competitors yap all the time.  It&#x27;s not like it was a post on Twitter where a person actually has time to craft something and think about it.  So if I call someone a stupid Canadian, that&#x27;s racist.  What if they were stupid?  And they certainly would be Canadian.

HutchEmAll · Answer

[Quote: Originally Posted by vanzack]  The language is exactly the same in both charges.&#xD;&#xA;I understand you could INTERPRET the actions differently, but the fact is that both of them were charged with the same exact thing, and got a different headline.&#xD;&#xA;Could be as innocent as a  different headline writer on a different day, who knows.  Just interesting to me.&#xD;&#xA;  [/Quote]I would say that both comments are definitely flirting with being racist so it easily could be just a different writer using a different word. Was Suarez&#x27;s comment made in the heat of battle, at a press conference, in a news article, or what?

SwishSwish1234 · Answer

In a derby match between England&#x27;s Red Sox-Yankees team equivalent, And also the Black player accusing Suarez has a bit of history in accusing people of this sort of stuff plus the same player was caught on French T.V. making an advert where he used the exact same word Suarez called him.

SwishSwish1234 · Answer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMOWi3PRDJM

YosemiteSami · Answer

Everyone (apart from Chelsea fans) knows how much of a distasteful character he is, who, for someone reason, is afforded a great deal of protection from the English sports press.

There was even one hack from the dismal Daily Mail (a right wing, xenophobic & slightly racist rag) who hailed the Football Association for convicting Suarez through a civil trial, where outcomes can be reached through a 'balance of probability' (i.e. no evidence is required)

Yet this same hack, just 7 months later, wrote a column decrying the fact that Terry could be found guilty by the FA using the same methods. Basically stating that "It's not right!"

The whole Suarez issue exposed huge amounts of hypocrisy from UK sports journos and all the bandwagon jumpers who wanted their one minute of fame.

I won't be sad to see many of these newspapers fold and so-called journalists out of a job, as revenues continue to drop thanks to a large swathe of the general public seeking unbiased, intelligent news content from other sources.

HutchEmAll · Answer

Pro soccer players can behave like little pussies at times.

be easy · Answer

ito is usually a spanish suffix to designate someone as being small, which in practice usually sounds more endearing then demeaning, but spanish etemology differs from sect to sect

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