before you all start lambasting my opinion as politcal correctness gone mental...
in my opinion political correctness was a term invented by rascists and prudes, something to call the list of all the things (slurs, offensive words) they had to remember not to say in public. i have no problem with a touch of casual fun and ribbing, but the statement made by a member of this forum two days ago was not made in jest or with any sense of irony. it was a fairly vicious rascist line about jewish people.
at the time when people called him on it the offending member asked for it to be removed. we all make mistakes blah blah blah and a moderator removed it, brushed under the carpet, goodbye.
later on his previous comment came up in a debate on another topic. the guy called himself an anti-semite, for his own reasons, none of our business. for those of you that don't know this is the definition of anti-semitic...
Definitions of anti semitic:
* relating to or characterized by anti-Semitism; hating Jews
* Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is prejudice against or hostility towards Jews, often rooted in hatred of their ethnic background, culture, or religion. ...
in other words rascism.
again nothing happened, when this was brought up later i was laughed off by the offender and quite a few members of this forum.
there are two types of tolerance. tolerance and zero tolerance. i can't believe the moderators on this site deleted the original rascist comment, rascism is wrong and that post should have been highlighted as a "this will not be tolerated" posting.
you allow people to post anonimously on your site so you the moderators have a huge responsibility to set a tone. that post was rascist, end of. whatever that guys beef with people of jewish decent is, he's wrong and rascist... sorry.
it's not enough to say "my best friend is black so i know where the line is and your taking offence is just political correctness gone too far". my friend is jewish and i found the context and usage of the word used (several times in one post) utterly dispicable. imagine if he'd used something equally degrading to black people in a context completely devoid of anything other than to cause offense. then admitted later on it's just because i'm a member of the BNP or klan and it's none of your business. you might act then i guess...
I'd like to point out i'm not jewish just anti rascism. this is a liverpool forum, we have a jewish player who hasn't left yet. also there is a difference between jewishness and israel. one is a religion practiced the world over, by many people. some of these people are left-wing, some are right-wing. some are acountants, some are chefs, some are musicians, some are footballers etc... some of these people are good, some of them bad. some of them are my friends, some of them played for chelsea. israel is a state alot of people have a problem with, i can admit i'm one of them. but branding or defining people based on one thing (be it religion, israel, their heritage - i didn'y ask why he was anti-semetic) is [oops] rascist. they are individuals first...
the moderators of this site need to grow a pair and wise up. (i exclude trepie from this as he actually took the guy on.)
This will be my last posting i promise. i do really genuinely like koptalk, the conversations tend to be progressive as far as football is concerned and the majority of you are genuinely good eggs. just can't believe this was swept under the rug.
you can all start ripping me apart now... which i'm sure you will... political correctness gone mental indeed... maybe it's politically incorrect to call a rascist a rascist now?
