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Has there been examples in football stadiums recently of anti racism gestures that don't involve taking a knee being booed?

Why did Millwall fans boo the first protest and then the following week applaud?

Wow. Let's look at something that's actually incredibly racist:

What did you have an issue with?

See you know that's not the case and yet you framing this like you have just underlines the problem and demonstrates why many are absolutely right to feel aggrieved by the disingenuous and false narrative you are peddling.

Where is racist behaviour acceptable? What racist behaviour specifically are you hoping will be reduced?

Why? Sounded like she gave a pretty decent speech the other day. Seemed like a great start for what was needed.

But they don't view opposing the taking of the knee as racist behaviour which is the entire point. There's some evidence to suggest that it has had a negative effect so actually there could be some harm in it.

What if they combined it with a goose step? Are you a racist if you disagree?

I disagree. I think it's raised the profile of this form of activism and I think it's been viewed incredibly negatively by a significant percentage of fans. I don't think it's furthered any anti racism agenda (and as I pointed out, polls showed that people felt these protests had had an overall negative effect on racial relations so you could argue its actually made things worse.) You accept surely that not everyone who objects to the taking of the knee is a "racist?" The point is that this isn't going to result in a "bit less racism" it's going to increase tensions and probably lead to more racist attitudes in the future.

In fact let's get the whole England team involved. Ten minutes into the first game let's get them all with their kit off reenacting this scene from South Park.

I'd have more respect if Kane travelled to Qatar and then just before the kick off started to fellate Dier in the centre circle whilst Eric had his fist in the air. That would be a powerful statement for sure.

What does "making them think" going to achieve? All it's going to do is further entrench opinion.

So to deliberately exagerrate to make a point- what if all the players decided to do a nazi salute to tackle racism? I mean it's been associated with bad things in the past and many people find the gesture controversial but what if they decided they had coopted the gesture and everyone now knows what it means? Would it then be acceptable to not be supportive of the gesture?

If you look at covid under a microscope, there's little Tommy Robinson heads stuck on the protein spikes doing a sieg heil.

"Dr Zubaida Haque, the deputy director of the race equality think tank Runnymede Trust, said the research was the "most conclusive evidence that overt racial discrimination still exists". "Nowadays a lot of the conversation is about unconscious bias, but this shows that no matter your degree or education, you are still perceived and treated by the colour of your skin, religion and ethnicity, and not by what you can do," she told the BBC." How do the results from that survey show what this woman claims? Serious question because it sounds like she's started with her conclusions and then pretended that this survey shows that when it clearly shows nothing of the sort. The only way to test if it was the name that was preventing applications would be to send two identical CVs with the names changed on them and even then all it would show is that employers don't like strange names that they haven't encountered before. If you sent identical CVs out without a name and just a photo you may have a point but even then it could be someone who has a negative reaction to the way someone looks. But yes let's pretend that it's really because everyone is secretly racist. The vast majority of employers I've seen will employ anyone as long as they are competent and don't cause trouble.

Indeed. Plus Mohamed not getting interviews I would suggest implies an aversion to that name and the negative connotations it has with regards to Islam rather than any particular commentary on racism. How could they possibly know the person was black beforehand?

There's obviously a psychological thing where people are drawn to names of candidates that sound more like them. The question though is whether the issue is purely because these people are a different race or if there are other factors at play. I'd happily remove names from cvs if people think that sort of thing would help. I can happily say I've employed tons of people from different ethnicities and if anything I've found Eastern European women and Muslim women to be some of the hardest working and friendly people so I'd probably look more kindly on them than some of the entitled young people who you could refer to as ethnically English.

From memory when these sort of things have come up in the past, the aversion was that people react negatively to both unfamiliar names but also names with negative connotations which had nothing to do with race. So shanice, dwayne, candice, cortnee etc also had similar issues.

That's a really weird article. It says the interview with the woman in question was "edited for brevity" then gives an interview with robotic answers in short paragraphs. I'm assuming this woman has some sort of mental disability like autism? There's not many other conclusions to come to when reading that. She sound like Matthew Le God.

I still think if we are going to play Theo from the start then we need a decent striker off the bench to change it up a bit. Sack off long and get a pacy youngster.

People moaning about Theo this week are mugs. Such a good option to have.

I'm glad your school is doing that. Clearly not the case everywhere though. A lot of it is led by the headteacher I have found.

A lot of schools have done this and it's important to point out that it's not the teachers that want any of this. Having said that, there are some teachers (most unionised) who are pushing their luck. As you know, it's not a black and white issue.

I'd love that more than anything.