Fan The Flames

A little reminder that some people who use the term WLM are racist. Just like some people who use the term BLM are racist. I'm glad we have cleared that up.

Of all the anti BLM arguments this one has to be the shittist. If you are claiming there was no revulsion when he was killed then you are very wrong. What were doing to campaign about the awful death by police of Tony Timpa, did you even care about it a month ago or is it just a convenient flag to now wave. Tony Timpa was schizophrenic and deaths of disabled and mentally ill people at the hands of police are 16 times higher than other Americans and is a national disgrace that is campaigned against https://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/key-issues/criminalization-of-mental-illness/2976-people-with-untreated-mental-illness-16-times-more-likely-to-be-killed-by-law-enforcement- and another example of the failure of funding the police to military levels at the sake of social services. I sure his mum is pleased you are now willing to take up his cause, keep us posted.

The way I understood it was the TikTok kids were only registering an interest and not booking tickets, so 19000 people could still have turned up if they wanted to. The two sides of the story are compatible.

People on BBC ironically saying 'other (generic description) are available' after someone say's a brand name. It stopped being clever the second time someone said it.

She was the reason why we stopped watching, we persevered for a bit but she is really irritating

He won't, he's given up on the pretence that he is impartial. He knocks one side only.

He won't admit it though. His next appearance will be just a twitter link to some nonsense thread, that he thinks is a gotcha.

What a surprise you're wrong again. Batman the nonsense peddler.

Well you must live and socialise in a really loony left progressive bubble if you think only a couple of people in 50,000 are racist. You and many on here seem to be more angered by virtue signally than social justice but funnily the only two people to mention having black friends are you and Hypo.

It seems that the rules are the same for international and national boards, so it must be a question of interpretation. The FA interpret the poppy, BLM and NHS as non political symbols whereas FIFA operate a blanket ban for the very reasons you say. This seems like a sensible approach to me as FIFA have to govern for all countries with all their different geopolitical positions. The FA deemed the yellow ribbon as political as I guess it was seen as a campaign against something that had been subject to the due process of a sovereign country. No one is really questioning having the NHS on the shirts even though there are plenty of people who don't necessarily politically agree with it. Is BLM political, surely a call for social justice is as harmless as Children in Need.

It is really simple, one are international rules and the other are national rules. These things aren't allowed on international shirts but are allowed on club shirts in England. This is why the poppy is allowed on english club shirts but not on the england international shirt. BLM was on club shirts, so no contradiction. What would be interesting is if BLM was put on international shirts, that would then open up a whole new argument and I can see it happening.

Personally I'm anti all rape gangs. Do you even know what point you're trying to make?

Nor would I, both good ideas.

It could have been completely different if it wasn't for that Ings interception early on. Armstrong was pants for the opening ten minutes then settled into it and played a nice ball into Ings for the opener. Then we cruised it. We can now coast to the end of the season, it will be good to break 40 points. I would like to break 50 points but that's probably a step too far.

You've mentioned modern day slavery a lot in the last two weeks (but you never mentioned it before hmmm), so I look forward to you campaigning for your newly found cause. What are going to do about MDS?

That you both missed it

Strange both papers say its linked to Islamic terrorism.

You could do the double knee to create awareness by symbolising both children and priests.

This has really riled some people, loads of people at work today were fuming. One bloke cancelled Sky Sports because of it, he was foaming about how the poppy was banned from shirts (it hasn't been) but BLM wasn't and then was raving that Aunt Bessies has taken a black lady of it's packaging. Perplexed I googled it and it was Uncle Ben's. The idiot got himself mad over shit that wasn't real, sounds about right.

Isn't being against BLM like being against Children in Need?

There's nothing to be confused about. Symbols are not allowed on international shirts. England wanted a poppy on theirs but were not allowed as FIFA have a blanket ban on 'political' symbols. Didn't they agree to let us wear poppy armbands? The FA allow poppies on club shirts and have done for years.

There's no swear filter, fuckin ace.

I'll be fucked off if we were bought by Saudi's, that would be worse than the current lot.

Mate you're about three days behind the whataboutery curve, all that effort for **** all.

Ha ha ha ha desperately seeking hypocrisy, putting up a bunch of paps who never stick to the rules in normal times is scraping the barrel. Maybe they all live together, maybe they are just protecting their children and it's perfectly acceptable and you shouldn't politicise it.