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If Redmond does leave I'd have to say that overall he's been a disappointment.

Have they replaced sue barker? She was always a bit too white.

Bizarre opinion.

surprised they didn't take the opportunity with no crowd to all take the knee.

Are you suggesting that the behaviour was widely known about prior to this complaint and was ignored? Seems like as soon as a complaint was made then the process was followed and they were dealt with. Surely that's a good thing?

Aren't you pleased fhat it was properly dealt with and he resigned in disgrace before he was fired? Is this an example. Of a systemically racist and sexist society?

Completely unacceptable behaviour. Reassuring that those in charge put steps in place to catch them and then sack them. Yet more good news that racism in the UK will not be tolerated in polite society and the workplace. Racists losing their jobs and having clear consequences for their actions will do far more for tackling this sort of thing than taking a knee at the football ever will.

Oh I don't disagree clearly there's two sides to that. Despite that though there's clearly some pretty shocking stuff there and I'd expect to be fired immediately if I conversed with a work colleague like that over texts.

Here's another example of some actual shocking and blatant racism. This is the sort of thing that needs to be rooted out and dealt with harshly. The fact this bloke has lost his job and will most likely be shunned for his disgusting behaviour is clear proof that Britain does not tolerate racism: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-55364729

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.