True colors come out?
I am on the verge on standing on Meta's side right now just to prove a point.
Holy shit.
Seriously, holllyyy shit...
I have never been subject to racism and I have lived and will live the rest of my life out of my country of origin so I am very lucky and I am the least person to talk about facing Racism but...some of the comments here. Damn. Kind of disgusted.
I won't indulge into a long conversation but racism is never situational and never borderline acceptable. It is also never a card.
I'm not sure if this is at all directed toward me but having you side with Meta is unacceptable here so I'm going to get defensive on a few issues.
For one the "race card", a term I hate, is overused but it there is some incidents - few, isolated ones, usually by people who aren't the common victims of racism themselves, where race is exploited for political purpose. To give a recent example some professor recently wrote a widely quoted op-ed accusing white progressives in the United States of abandoning Obama because they are racist. The only evidence given was that more people on the political left seem to be outspoken against Obama than they were against Clinton. Because it couldn't be that the left has abandoned Obama because he failed most of his promises, refused to take dramatic action on the economy, and ordered the assassination of an American citizen without due process, ignoring that Clinton had plenty of left wing condemnation, governed over a successful economy, and never made grand sweeping progressive promises to begin with. The point is the author exploited real life racial tension to defend their political position.
If in 2008 Evra did claim racism entirely to defend his actions, which I'm not saying he did but he might have, then yes that's a case of exploiting racism, the same if he did it this time, neither of which we know because we can't read his mind.
And I agree racism is never acceptable, but trash talk is supposed to be intentional and people do cross the line without realizing it, especially from countries that have for the past century mostly ignored racial issues, such as Spain, Argentina and Uruguay. Had Suarez insulted Evra for being French for instance, that woudn't be racist but it would be offensive toward the French, but it's not something I'd ever blame him for because who doesn't like making jokes about the French? Some people, shockingly enough, don't see the difference between insulting a nationality and racism, and unfortunately from comments on this forum you can see just how common it is for people to be ignorant about race.
