And the tweet alone is proof for everybody but a few it seems.

Racism now = banter? :conf:

Well most tweets are a reaction to something,so we don't even know what was said to him,it could have been even worse,until I see it in it's full content I wont crucify him,the other tweets that we've seen have all had other people on them commenting ,this one doesn't,very strange.

It's really upsetting to be honest, I can take Marc being defended most of the time, that's how forums work. This is not one of those times. It is simply inexcusable in every single way.

No it isn't,we don't know what was said to get that reaction

The racist tweet is worse for sure.

for god sake, there was clear racism in the second tweet...what was said before doesn't matter.

you said " But yes, if he said it to a friend I would concede and agree that it did not have a nasty intent but until this is proven, I refuse to believe that this was "banter" in any shape or form.. And so should you

so you said yourself the facts haven't been proven:)

what's this about racism :omgno:

The hypocrisy in this thread is shocking.

He physically typed out the words and chose to press send. It is inexcusable in every context, if you're saying the guy on the other side could have been just as terrible then fair. But you're not saying that, you're saying Marc may be forgiven giving a very specific context and that is not okay. They are either both disgusting or Marc alone was disgusting, there is proof for the latter.

I'm not going to defend Marc for his tweets because they were out of order but is saying someone looks Chinese really racist? If anything it xenophobia

I'm sorry, I don't understand what you misunderstood

"squinty eyed fool" sounds pretty racist to me

Ok stop getting you knickers in a twist,didn't even see that one,Christ!!!

dear god where do you start with a post like that. :facepalm:

:bored: what a t***

Is squinty eyed racist,:shrug:squinty eye means just that,a squinty eye

it sounds to me that in the tweet you concede it hasn't been proven..and in the second say the tweet is proof enough..that seems a contradiction to me..

but my 28 year old friend here so you are on your own..i'm going to share some banter

considering he said the person looked chinese right before he called them a squinty eyed fool...yeah i'd say it is pretty racist :laugh: if he called them that without the chinese bit it wouldn't be so bad but...really?

Well, the "that looks chinese" part directly before it looks pretty bad.

It's people who think that's comments means Chinese people who are racist

Okay. No, sorry, i understand. I meant that if there was proof that a near 30 year old Marc was good friends with this teen looking boy, I would agree that it would probably lack a malicious intent. But my point was that this will never be the case. Marc sent the tweet to the stranger to be as cruel as he possibly could in 140 characters.

yes it is, especially when said in the 'aggressive' context of the tweet