I do respect Your ability to judge to better than mine, given Your the judge... But where is this leading us then. The Roma People (Gypsies) are a minority, hounded by the majority for decades and centuries. They have not made their own situation any easier themselves. There is hardly any of their kids finish secondary School, they are rootless they way they drfit around, and they are normally looked Down upon by the people in the land they are in at any given time. So when branding this guy a fucking Gypsy (even if he probably is not a gypsy in the first Place) is a strong insult. You don't get of easy if you abuse a sami people (Nort Scandinavian minority) a fucking "Lapp" in a football game. Neither I Guess they would get of easy calling him a fucking aboriginie if he was an aussie minority.
I cant say much about the five match ban ruling as I have no reference to what is a lengthy ban and not. Compared to the guy in the same article serving one match ban for swearing, such a direct insulting outburst warrants a much tougher ban than that?
But this has nothing to do with govt.
If someone in work repeatedly called a colleague a gypsy in a derogatory manner they'd rightly get fucked. That's all that's happened. It's just bad manners being sanctioned.
It has everything to do with government. Without prior legislative changes, lower-ranking public bodies wouldn't have gone this far. They see which way the wind is blowing and fall in behind it. Our own FA and its ludicrous disciplinary set-up are a ridiculous case in point.
More generally, I'm all for bad manners being sanctioned, but people (not just the victims but the vast majority of us who support them) need to do it themselves. There is no way I can support governments (and their lackeys lower down the public pyramid) setting up Thought Police to do it instead.
It has everything to do with government. Without prior legislative changes, lower-ranking public bodies wouldn't have gone this far. They see which way the wind is blowing and fall in behind it. Our own FA and its ludicrous disciplinary set-up are a ridiculous case in point.
More generally, I'm all for bad manners being sanctioned, but people (not just the victims but the vast majority of us who support them) need to do it themselves. There is no way I can support governments (and their lackeys lower down the public pyramid) setting up Thought Police to do it instead.
The irony of people in the UK criticising Australia for it's inherent racism is overfuckingwhelming.
It was a racial slur. Whether it was accurate or not is irrelevant.But he's not a gypsy. He's an Albanian.
The irony of that statement is that the only person I can see in this thread suggesting something like that is Irish.