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Spanish fans reignite racism row (against France in World Cup)
BBC ^ | 6/28/06

Posted on 06/28/2006 5:49:08 PM PDT by Paddlefish

France coach Raymond Domenech has alleged that his players were subjected to racist taunts by Spanish fans before Tuesday's second round tie. He said: "When I arrived with the bus there were fans making monkey chants." The claim seems certain to reignite the racism row that has plagued Spanish football in recent years.

In 2005 Spain coach Luis Aragones was fined for making racist remarks about France's Thierry Henry and players have suffered racist abuse in La Liga games. Aragones' comments about Henry were the most high-profile and Henry was clearly delighted that France were able to beat the Spaniards in Hanover on Tuesday.

The Arsenal striker said: "A lot of people were speculating about Aragones and I don't want to talk about it because there is no point.

"But the best answer was the win."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 3rdworldsleepaid; racism; soccer; soccerhooligans; worldcup
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The Euros are so interesting!
1 posted on 06/28/2006 5:49:08 PM PDT by Paddlefish
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To: Paddlefish

Frankly, "You're French!" suffices for me.


2 posted on 06/28/2006 5:50:34 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Paddlefish

The French and Spanish aren't really different ~ so how can they hurl racist taunts at each other?


3 posted on 06/28/2006 5:50:42 PM PDT by muawiyah (-)
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To: Paddlefish

The Spanish are an ignorant lot. They should have been making forggie taunts.


4 posted on 06/28/2006 5:51:41 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. Slay Pinch)
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To: Paddlefish
France coach Raymond Domenech has alleged that his players were subjected to racist taunts by Spanish fans before Tuesday's second round tie. He said: "When I arrived with the bus there were fans making monkey chants."

Mmmyeah. See, that's not what you think it is. Do you guys remember hearing about the Spanish primate-rights movement? Those aren't Spanish people pretending to be monkeys to make fun of you. Those are actual monkeys.

5 posted on 06/28/2006 5:54:20 PM PDT by RichInOC (...I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I just couldn't resist.)
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To: Paddlefish

"When I arrived with the bus there were fans making monkey chants."

LOL!


6 posted on 06/28/2006 5:55:24 PM PDT by jwh_Denver (I'm politicked off!)
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To: Billthedrill
"You're French!"

That would be enough of an insult to start a small riot!

7 posted on 06/28/2006 5:57:59 PM PDT by TYVets (God so loved the world he didn't send a committee)
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To: Paddlefish

Racist comments, no it can't be! I thought Europe was so enlightened.


8 posted on 06/28/2006 5:59:20 PM PDT by Archon of the East ("universal executive power of the law of nature")
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To: Paddlefish

"French" is not a race, it's a mental condition.


9 posted on 06/28/2006 6:07:02 PM PDT by Jackson Brown
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To: Paddlefish

There has to be a Monty Python catch in this somewhere.


10 posted on 06/28/2006 6:08:40 PM PDT by stboz
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To: muawiyah

The French team has a lot of blacks on it.


11 posted on 06/28/2006 6:12:03 PM PDT by expatpat
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So? The Spanish team has a whole big bunch of folks with more than their fair share of "North African" ancestry ~

I really don't think minor degrees of difference in tans should serve as some sort of racial-taunt litmus test!

12 posted on 06/28/2006 6:14:25 PM PDT by muawiyah (-)
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I thought Europe had no racism?


13 posted on 06/28/2006 6:18:09 PM PDT by CremeSaver
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Europe has several minorities ~ they used to have more but they killed off a couple of them in WWII.

Odds are they haven't finished doing business that way.

14 posted on 06/28/2006 6:19:27 PM PDT by muawiyah (-)
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To: muawiyah
Isn't it European media and other assorted elitists who are constantly lecturing the US about racism and how we should be ashamed of the amount of racism that exists in the US today? I'm just glad we don't follow the European method of ridding ourselves of racism.
15 posted on 06/28/2006 6:25:44 PM PDT by CremeSaver
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The Europeans have done the old "ethnic cleansing" trick many times over the centuries. It's a vital part of their culture you know.


16 posted on 06/28/2006 6:28:15 PM PDT by muawiyah (-)
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To: Archon of the East

So, they're gonna' "dock points" for "racism".

Now, how will the PC police determine the guilty parties ? These European soccer fans are so nuts, they'll disguise themselves as their opponents and yell racial epithets just to screw their competition.

It's hilarious that these pompous clowns will "dock points" for "racism", but if one side starts a riot where people are trampled to death, they'll probably just let them off with a gentle warning.


17 posted on 06/28/2006 6:59:23 PM PDT by colonel mosby
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To: Paddlefish

since when did the spanish become a different race than the french?


18 posted on 06/28/2006 7:22:53 PM PDT by conservative physics (only a liberal could think boys with energy are mental, but boys attracted to other boys are normal)
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"The Europeans have done the old "ethnic cleansing" trick many times over the centuries. It's a vital part of their culture you know."

Yup.
Hitler was merely carrying out an extension of a grand old European tradition of ethnic cleaning.
Ethnic cleansing, like the Russian pogroms against Jews for example, had been going on for centuries in Europe, before Hitler was even born.
19 posted on 06/28/2006 7:26:20 PM PDT by Jameison
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I really don't think minor degrees of difference in tans should serve as some sort of racial-taunt

You're kidding, right? For example, African-Americans are very sensitive to differences in skin tone, with the lighter tones lording it over the darker ones. If you ask an A-A to describe another, the skin tone is one of the first characteristics he will describe. Since eye-color and hair-color are pretty uniform among AAs, I guess it's natural.

Again, in Mexico, the light-browns (mostly Spanish blood) look down on their darker (mostly Indian blood) compatriots.

20 posted on 06/28/2006 7:30:04 PM PDT by expatpat
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