Exactly. And if a 1 player called another "fatty", would we be saying that he deserved a 3 match ban? unlikely. But I bet he'd have suffered far more verbal abuse in his time than Evra's claiming to have received. If we're going to cry about name calling then it must apply to all insults and derogatory remarks and not just reserved for people of colour otherwise that is giving THEM preferential treatment.....and isn't that problem with racial discrimination in the first place????
i can see what youre trying to say but youre missing the point. every race, somewhere and in some form, is discriminated against. its something that is a blight on society, and so any terminology that helps to feed that discrimination should be viewed as detrimental to society. calling someone by a racial slur is not the same as calling someone fat for a few reasons, but here's one that explains why racial slurs are more serious:
no one has ever gone to war over differences in weight.
