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I think I had a rather more uncharitable opinion of him when he started making incredibly serious accusations against other posters like calling them rape apologists and part of the far right.

And he preaches to me about Islam when I'm married to an Arab!

No attempt to find common ground, no shades of grey, campaigns are either accepted in their entirety or you're a bigot and a phobe. The reason Sydney Saint stands out is because he's at least willing to start a civil dialogue with those he disagrees with for which he should be commended. Let's hope that more can follow his lead although judging by much of the abuse and invective that seems unlikely on here.

Of course there's a lot of evidence to back it up. You can search for social attitude surveys which underline what a tolerant nation we are. Certainly in comparison to most of our European neighbours. We should celebrate what fantastic progress we've made in just a few decades. Britain is a wonderful and welcoming nation where the vast majority of people are tolerant and friendly. It's something we should all be proud of.

He has one year left on his contract. 15 with add ons I suspect will be our lot.

You clearly aren't really interested in reducing levels of discrimination and hate, your primary motivation is to support campaigns that upset people that you disagree with politically. It's a shame that there are so many people with the same attitude as you because all its going to cause is division and upset and hate and discrimination will continue.

Don't lie you've been responding for years and you read every post.

I've posted it before but our defence was awful last year. Once we get a replacement in I think it would be difficult for the defence as a whole to concede more goals. Sell.

And sadly it's this kind of attitude that simply deepens division. Theres too many of these types of people who aren't interested in reducing levels of bigotry and homophobia. Sad.

Good Post. I think what I object to most is the attitude of superiority and condemnation against those who havent necessarily moved at the same pace. I was childhood friends with a group of three brothers who moved away when I was about twelve. This week I've been staying at the house of their parents and they got talking about how all three brothers have signed up to woke ideology to different degrees. They said the worst bit was the tone and language policing of their parents. The mother had been doing something and said "that was such a fag" and then received a lecture from one of her sons which devolved into a blazing row about how unacceptable that word is and how times have moved on and how she's a bigot when she protested. The poor woman was so upset and it made me sad to think that this warped ideology has ruined their relationship with their children to some extent.

Good Post and one I largely agree with. You're correct that the British on average do have high levels of tolerance for others and a sense of fairness.

You would imagine they expect Salisu to step up this season with vestergaard gone and it will be interesting to see how he gets on.

We never really replaced tadic. They tried with boufal but it wasn't the same.

No it isn't, that is a trope parroted by the left wing media.

No. I think it would take 50 and even then I'm not sure we have a need to sell this summer.

Preach brother.

Being woke has nothing to do with anti discrimination or hate. It actively hates and discriminates.

That's odd because some of the biggest c*nts I've ever met have been what would be described as woke and virtue signalling. It's almost like being a c*nt isn't confined to one political ideology.

I wasn't talking about the rainbow shirt. Glad we agree.

Genuinely well done to you if you're part of any opposition I think it's disgusting that they were awarded the tournament as its entirely corrupt. What's really needed is some of the players taking a stand as well. That would make a really difference.

My point is that certain people are happy to make empty gestures towards equality that achieve nothing (or even make situations worse) but when there's an opportunity to make a real statement by boycotting a tournament in a nation with a bit of appaling human rights record then there's largely silence.

Ha good on him. Shoving it back in the face of bigots is the way to go.

Well done on your principled stance. Shame the same cannot be said for others eh?

Do you have examples of abuse? Genuine question I'm interested to know.

I'd also be interested to know what the homophobic abuse consisted of. Obviously there's a scale from disgusting abuse that should be immediately reported and dealt with to much milder comments to the degree that it's arguable whether it is abuse at all like we can see you holding hands for example. The headline figures seem very high but I'd like to see more of the details first because the definition of abuse is subjective.