Racism and hypocrisy in Ireland

Some chip on your shoulder you have there!

What is middle class in Ireland? I didn't think we had a class system unlike our neighbours across the sea.

Or is middle class a person who has a job and can afford to make PCP payments on a entry level VW group vehicle?

This seems to show that she attempted to rectify the situation once the mistake had been identified.

It does not appear that she just walked away from the incident.

But we have to give the benefit of the doubt that it was a genuine mistake.

An idiotic and foolish one granted, but a mistake nonetheless.

There are hundreds of comments on Reddit and thousands on Twitter and it is turning into an exceptionally nasty mob. There are many calling for her name and a lot wanting to know where she lives. It has even been mentioned earlier on in this thread.

If they find out who she is they will absolutely destroy this woman.

And if it was indeed a genuine mistake, an innocent person will have their life ruined.

We cannot jump to the most malicious intent possible immediately on someone who may have made a mistake. That leads down a very dangerous road.

https://x.com/mhdksafa/status/1705255758978269390?s=46&t=6cLnc0ZtzhK8nMknfB_HwQ

here is the full actual video. The person handing out the medals clearly looks at the ribbon on each one before handing them out. Which leads me to believe there are names on them. She says something to the black kid after she goes past her, obviously asking her name, or telling her she’ll have to find her medal. Which she does off camera.

As someone said above, race baiters gonna race bait.

Hang on. I didn’t jump into anything. You latched on to my post and immediately starting making false attributions. I would never willingly initiate an interaction with you. However, I have no issue calling out your nonsense when you proceed with your typical ranting.

1. Where’s that apology for the mis-attribution? Still waiting on that..
2. Substantiate your claims of racism, right now.
3. Are you going to apologise for your personal attacks on my ability to coach children in a sport that both they and I are passionate about?

I can assure you that my reading comprehension is far above the mean (yet another personal attack - keep it classy ‘Goldengirl’). I equate my personal experience as this happens to children right around the country every weekend. Kids are slighted and over-looked all the time at sporting events. The optics on this one do not look terrific because the child is black. You of course, latch on to that fact, because that’s the prism through which you view everything. Those of us who are actually involved in sport, understand that it a relatively common, albeit an unfortunate occurrence. Would you be even remotely so exercised if the little girl was white?

To deal with your next set of assumptions, you have no idea if the little girl is the only black child in her class or her friend group. You know precisely nothing about the child or her social milieu. That’s you superimposing your own assumptions yet again. In fact, living where I do in Dublin, it would be extremely uncommon for that little girl to be the only black child in her environment. Does any of that excuse how she was treated by that official? Of course not. But it does highlight how blind you are to the degree of multiculturalism in particular parts of the capital.

Now dealing with yet another personal attack. Can you quote which views I have articulated that would apparently have me banned from coaching children’s sports. That’s another outrageous and borderline slanderous allegation which I’ve also reported. Is it because I disagree with you on immigration? It might shock you to learn that many people are capable of discussing the issue rationally in ‘the real world’. Obviously not you, but intelligent, articulate people are capable of rational debate. Now returning to coaching, can you enumerate the views I apparently hold that preclude me from coaching?

To be clear, about 25% of the children I coach in our very multicultural part of West Dublin, are from non-Irish backgrounds. About 5% are black. I would never treat a child differently or denigrate them because of their background. Despite your statement that I make them ‘cringe’, we have great fun together and I love seeing them getting stronger, faster, and fitter. You, on the other hand, clearly know nothing about sport or the coaching dynamic. As I’ve already stated repeatedly, this official should not be dealing with children. However, neither you nor I know the true motivation behind this unfortunate incident. You view it through your prism. I critique it from the position of somebody who is actually involved in sport.

So people identified the wrong official, naming and shaming someone who wasn't even present at the event, and decided to harass them online.