Name calling leads to further forms of racism. Footballers are unfortunately role models (albeit terrible ones) and their actions influence people and if they are seen to get away with racist actions, it feeds into peoples habits subconsciously.
Calling someone fat or ginger doesn't come from the same area that racism comes from which is fear and ignorance. I don't think anyone should ever be slagged off about anything but people have never been hounded out of their houses or denied jobs because they are fat or ginger whereas this has happened based on race or creed
I bet you damn good money that people
have been refused jobs for being fat!
There is nothing to suggest that racial name calling has anything to do with fear or ignorance. If you're angry with someone and were going to call them something you use the most obvious thing that springs to mind....sometimes it's ginger hair, sometimes it's their weight, sometimes it's the fact that they were glasses......and in a predominantly white society, the most obvious differentiator is skin colour.
In a group of people, the tallest one might be called a 'lanky'
[email protected] largest one, a 'fat tw@, the one who wears glasses, a 'speccy tw@' and guess what the black one might be called......?
Referring to someone by their colour doesn't make you a racist. Discriminating against them does. That's my take on things anyway.
