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England's women soccer star Jess Carter quits social media due to racist comments
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/...t-abuse-bronze
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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. |
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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
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the england team will also not take the knee tomorrow out of sympathy for Jess Carter
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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.
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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/ |
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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
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He is taking the other extreme imo. |
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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 |
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Whatever happened to Sticks and Stones? |
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I was just more objecting to the person who made the tweet, saying that cyberbullying doesn't exist. |
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Out of interest.
Was she being harassed by the same individuals? Because that's obviously a crime. |
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not you defending those sicko social media racist trolls |
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