Spanish fans reignite racism row (against France in World Cup)

BBC ^ | 6/28/06

[Paddlefish]

The Euros are so interesting!

[Billthedrill]

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

[muawiyah]

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

[bert]

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

[RichInOC]

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.

[jwh_Denver]

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

LOL!

[TYVets]

"You're French!"

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

[Archon of the East]

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

[Jackson Brown]

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

[stboz]

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

[expatpat]

The French team has a lot of blacks on it.

[muawiyah]

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!

[CremeSaver]

I thought Europe had no racism?

[muawiyah]

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.

[CremeSaver]

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.

[muawiyah]

The Europeans have done the old "ethnic cleansing" trick many times over the centuries. It's a vital part of their culture you know.

[colonel mosby]

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.

[conservative physics]

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

[Jameison]

"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.

[expatpat]

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.