England's women soccer star Jess Carter quits social media due to racist comments
 

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/...t-abuse-bronze

https://www.theguardian.com/football...rter-euro-2025

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Yes fair enough


Stay off social media

Are the Police and Starmer first going to deal with the Stalker that has twice (that we know of) harassed Emma Raducanu, you know an actual crime that could potentially lead to someone getting hurt?

Also where are people getting arrested for Homophobia during the Rainbow Laces stuff? Including Footballers writing over the Rainbow armbands and then hiding behind religion afterwards.

Let's not forget how the British Media love to talk about how we're "struggling for prison space" yet in the same breath celebrate Prison space being wasted on people who should be getting Community Service at the very worst.

That is my controversial opinion on this topic.

Social Media needs to ban the racists off of their platforms as soon as they spew out their garbage.

Unfortunately places like Facebook and Twitter love the revenue too much with all of the traffic that they get daily.

Just far too easy to hurl abuse on social media

the england team will also not take the knee tomorrow out of sympathy for Jess Carter

Id imagine it will all be from abroad, the middle east in particular. Every public person gets dogs abuse on all types of social media so she isn't unique.

I don't really understand that because taking the knee was supposed to show solidarity with black teammates against racism I thought.

They "take the knee" out of sympathy to American criminal George Floyd. Its a shambles tbh

since taking the knee does not help against evil racist pigs on social media, now that has been confirmed

Online "abuse".

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fj8dqCJUoAAvAvm.jpg:large

Taking the knee has not ‘lost its power’ – it never had any to begin with
 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/...eg?imwidth=420

Gesture has become so superficial that Lionesses have decided not to continue
with it ahead of Euro 2025 semi-final

The shock value of the Lionesses’ decision against taking the knee was that
they still laboured, five years on, under a misapprehension that it was some
vital instrument in the fight against racism.

Kneeling felt tokenistic even then, a tick-box exercise for football to show how
much it cared, an easy PR win while avoiding any commitment to deeper
change. In 2025, it has become so perfunctory that the England women’s team
are forced to admit it serves no useful purpose.

The reality that these players dared not acknowledge was that it had never
had any power in the first place. This was not some 21st-century equivalent
of the Black Power salute, when Tommie Smith and John Carlos stood atop a
podium at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and raised black-gloved fists to the
sky at grave personal cost to themselves. This was an empty, performative
piece of gesture politics.


Jess Carter has spoken of “vile” and “abhorrent” comments directed towards
her online during the latest tournament. For all that she deserves sympathy
over her ordeal, it is revealing that she and her team-mates are abandoning
their anti-racism campaign on the pitch at the precise moment that they
confront evidence of racism off it. There could scarcely be a more damning
illustration of the gesture’s hollowness.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...05-lost-power/

When I read the title of this thread I just knew someone would dismiss it

Just like we all knew you would comment on a member and not the thread content

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Racism is a societal problem not a football one so I've always been a bit sceptical of the power of on-pitch gestures to really have much impact. Football these days is also one of the most equal opportunity industries out there. I do acknowledge it's been a long road to get to that point though

I really don't agree with this.

He is taking the other extreme imo.

A child being cyberbullied by their classmates is one thing; but a grown woman can't be "abused" by strangers typing words on a screen.

I agree that people should take some agency for whether they are or aren't on social media - with everything that involves. Not that that excuses racism and you shouldn't have to leave it but at least you can avoid it a bit

I think on balance we're probably worse off for having social media but it is difficult to ignore it. Even this forum is social media really I guess

I wasn't saying that the ability to ignore any racism she may have been given makes it okay - but it's nothing more than words.

Whatever happened to Sticks and Stones?

Oh yeah I know you weren't, just thought I should add that disclaimer to my own post!

I agree that she wasn't really being cyberbullied.

I was just more objecting to the person who made the tweet, saying that cyberbullying doesn't exist.

Just because you are thick skinned doesn’t mean others are. Online abuse has lead to many suicides

Out of interest.

Was she being harassed by the same individuals? Because that's obviously a crime.

Cyber bullying is real, that's just silly, but he offers some great advice for dealing with it (to an extent...)... this is why parody accounts exist anyway, because so much of commentary online is almost like satire...

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not you defending those sicko social media racist trolls