How many posts have you written regarding football vs how many re. Gay rights?
Is the tripe about arsenal supposed to make us feel ashamed? Here's the kicker:
Some Frankie Howard like quips don't equal homophobia. If anything it shows how comfortable modern fans are with notions of gayness. Someone using a disparaging term - in French - doesn't mean they are homophobic. It is slanderous to call someone homophobic when you have no clear evidence of homophobia.
It's a bit 'the only gay on the board' - we know you're not the only gay person on here!
One thing rationally highlighting important issues to ensure Spurs is open and accepting, quite another calling everyone who alludes to anything remotely gay as a homophobe!
I am sorry that i have made you so uncontrollably angry.
Your post and others in this thread show the extent of the problem with LGBT engagement in football generally and at Spurs specifically. More depressing than the amount of support these posts generate is that so few people challenge them. I guess they fear the flaming they will get on here if they did.
As for your specific points
How many posts have you written regarding football vs how many re. Gay rights?
I am not sure what gay rights are? Some sort of 1960s throwback?
The question of whether Spurs should sign this bigot and challenging homophobic posts are both valid discussion points for this thread.
Is the tripe about arsenal supposed to make us feel ashamed? Here's the kicker:
Not you. Me. I am ashamed of some the Spurs fanbase attitude to these issues.
For instance, if someone came on here to justify their racist behaviour by claiming they had a black friend. They would be heavily criticised particularly as that argument was discredited in the 1970s. Yet when people on here make the same argument to justify homophobia they get many likes.
Some Frankie Howard like quips don't equal homophobia. If anything it shows how comfortable modern fans are with notions of gayness.
I completely disagree with you. And the lack of understanding as to why these "jokes" are offensive demonstrates how much work needs to done in this area.
Someone using a disparaging term - in French - doesn't mean they are homophobic. It is slanderous to call someone homophobic when you have no clear evidence of homophobia.
Well you are the legal expert. However, I am confident that calling Aurier a homophobic bigot is not slanderous. You see the law is very clear on this matter. Aurier's intentions are irrelevant, what matters is whether others perceive those comments were homophobic and whether that perception was reasonably held. To succeed in your slander case, you would have to prove that my view that the words he used were homophobic was not a reasonable view. i can not see how you would do that.
It's a bit 'the only gay on the board' - we know you're not the only gay person on here!
There is at least one assumption in your sentence that is not correct.
One thing rationally highlighting important issues to ensure Spurs is open and accepting, quite another calling everyone who alludes to anything remotely gay as a homophobe!
Many posts in this thread are not acceptable. And then they liked and encouraged. The few that complain are shut down. That is quite simply wrong.
