KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum clattenburg reputed to have said this............

Exactly. At then of the day, name calling is playground stuff. I just don't why a grown adult would complain about it unless they are trying to stir up trouble.

Is it racist to hate racists????

Surely they have rights also?

That's just being pedantic.

It depends. If someone simply dislikes a particular race, there is no reason to hate them. We all have likes, dislikes, preferences etc of some kind be it, fat people, ginger people, jews, muslims, blacks, blondes, welsh....etc, etc. But if that person acts upon his dislikes by discrimination then that's a different story altogether..

Really, should we not shun them or try to educate them?

In many instances racism is simply caused through lack of education.

just noticed there was a big anti immigrant demo, can you guess where? Tel Aviv.

A street demo against african immigrants.
Just shows to me that everyone can be in certain situations 'racist'... Only when people start going to jail for hateful comments against white people in inner cities, will i take any notice of anti racist crybabies

Racism is a fact of life as is sexism, and probably twenty three other 'ism's - It is ridiculous and naive to expect a body (like FIFA) to eradicate it.

People choose to mix with whom they wish, and breed with whom they wish. It's called freedom to choose and in theory at least, is a gift to everyone, though of course minorities of all kinds get treated 'more' equally these days.

Bloody pathetic that with all of the world's very real problems, grown men are so insecure that name calling affects them.

Grow some testes...

The problem is you risk trouble with the law in England if you voice an opinion that is not deemed politically correct. So racism may well be a fact of life where you are, but in England its worse than to have killed someone to have written a racist comment. I am not advocating racism, i think its inherent everywhere and education is the only way to end it not having lynchinigs of people who decide for whatever reason they support the bnp etc

Agree with the above. Accusing someone of being race-realted name calling these days appears to put them in the same category as murders, rapist and paedophiles!!

I've lived in and have visited some pretty unsavoury places during my time, but apart from football related incidents, I haven't really seen much sign of 'racism' for quite a while. The more people talk about it, pretend it's a huge problem, and use it in irrelvant situations....the worse it seems to be become. I think that the best way to tackle it is to not give it so much air time. The more it is in the news, the more likely it is that people will stir things up for something to do.

In a nutshell, i don't think there's a big problem, and i strongly disagree that there is a 'racism' problem in football. If these players stopped crying wolf, using the race card and whingeing about being called names, then the hysteria would go away.

WTF you say it as though racism is like having a dislike for a certain flavour of crisps or something. We are talking about persecuting or treating a person or group of people in a certain way because of their race, of course it shouldnt fcking acceptable to think or act in that way. Whoever said that it's all about the need educate people was spot on!