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Alex Ferguson on Ferdinand and Roberts

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  • #252
    Pro. F
    Registered Users Posts: 12,219 ✭✭✭✭Pro. F


    Iang87 wrote: »
    ok what is racism?

    I have always though it was treating someone differently based on colour or ethnicity

    Also is the example I gave not an example of this rule you were speaking about

    I have already given my answer to the first question and more in post 204 (which you quoted previously). Or you could try having a look at google.

    For my answer to the second question see post 250.


  • #253
    Iang87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭Iang87


    I just think its a very dangerous rule to enforce.
    Using your US example can you imagine in the NBA if teams were forced to draft 80% white players. What do you think would be said?


  • #254
    Tchaikovsky
    Registered Users Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭Tchaikovsky


    John Barnes said that one of the main reasons why he didn't get a managerial job 8 years after being sacked by Celtic was that he was black. When in actual fact, it was because he's a **** manager :D


  • #255
    killwill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,785 ✭✭✭killwill


    Iang87 wrote: »
    I just think its a very dangerous rule to enforce.
    Using your US example can you imagine in the NBA if teams were forced to draft 80% white players. What do you think would be said?

    Why 80% in your example?


  • #256
    Iang87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭Iang87


    just cos the percentage of non white players in the NBA was something like 80 or 85% last I heard


  • #257
    Prick!
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 936 ✭✭✭Prick!


    Maybe there aren't many black managers because

    1. The majority of people in England are white.
    2. Most managers aren't young, so the black players going into coaching might take a while to filter through
    3. They're not good enough.


  • #258
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,424 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    Prick! wrote: »
    Maybe there aren't many black managers because

    1. The majority of people in England are white.
    2. Most managers aren't young, so the black players going into coaching might take a while to filter through
    3. They're not good enough.

    Britain's population is made up of 5% Black People. You would swear it was 50% from Sky they way they bring up this lack of Black Mangers in Football.


  • #259
    Pro. F
    Registered Users Posts: 12,219 ✭✭✭✭Pro. F


    Iang87 wrote: »
    I just think its a very dangerous rule to enforce.

    I think it's strange that in spite of not knowing the details of the proposed rule, nor the issues the rule is aimed at fixing as described by the people proposing it, nor even the full meaning of the term 'racism' that you are still happy to form an opinion on the subject.
    Iang87 wrote: »
    Using your US example can you imagine in the NBA if teams were forced to draft 80% white players. What do you think would be said?

    People would say that that is a silly rule. Since white people have always had a huge majority and have been the ones wielding the racist exclusion in sport rather than the ones subjected to it then there would be no need for your rule.


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