Chepstow'sFine wrote: June 27th, 2023, 12:53 pm
Not sure how I feel about that. Disclaimer alert, racism and all the other isms are bad, obvs. But it feels like there's a big industry around labelling everything as racist these days. The timing of it seems odd too, designed to cause maximum fuss in the middle of the biggest series of matches in the calendar.
It’s willy waving virtue signalling of the highest order “we’re so virtuous we didn’t even wait until after the ashes to admit to and repent on how awful we are” I haven’t seen the methodology but willing to bet it’s self reporting i.e., if you ask people if they
feel they have been hard done by because of xyz you’re not getting the
positive responses are you?!
[edit] of course racism exists - I always feel and indeed sometimes say that racism exists in sports but sports are not in themselves 'racist'*, the UK is by any measure the least racist of many other countries and sports in the main are welcoming to and [many sports] have a disproportionate representation of ethnic minorities (no judgement on that either way just a fact) and it does feel like we've got the sniffer dogs out to 'root out' the ghouls of racism which is divisive -
class divides are far more of an issue here.