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British soccer team urges fans to stop calling themselves 'Yids'
Arutz Sheva ^ | 12/2/22 | Cnaan Lipshitz

Posted on 02/12/2022 9:20:14 AM PST by Eleutheria5

A British soccer team that had previously defended its fans’ self-designation as “yids” has for the first time asked they stop.

Tottenham Hotspur, a prominent London team with a sizable Jewish fanbase and a reputation of being Jewish among fans of rival teams, made the request in a statement on its website Thursday.

“It is time to move on from associating this term with our club,” the club wrote in the statement, which reflected the outcome of an inquiry that the team launched

In the statement, the club described the use of “Yid army” and “Yiddo” by its fans as a way of deflecting the antisemitic chants of fans of rival teams, by owning the slur and turning it on its head.

“Among the reasons some fans choose to continue to chant the term now is to show unity and support for the team, as well as each other, as a defense mechanism against antisemitic abuse that still exists and also as a way to identify as a Spurs fan,” the statement read.

The statement said the team seeks “to create a welcoming environment that embraces all our fans” but the nickname increasingly stood in the way.

“It is clear the use of this term does not always make this possible, regardless of context and intention,”...

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Political Humor/Cartoons; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; associationfootball; chat; chatforum; hotspurs; localnews; notnews; soccer; sports; tottenham; tottenhamhotspur; yids
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First they'll come for the Yids, then for the Fighting Whiteys...
1 posted on 02/12/2022 9:20:14 AM PST by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

Zactly.


2 posted on 02/12/2022 9:21:59 AM PST by rrrod (6)
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To: Eleutheria5
Reminded of a high school intramural basketball team.

“Go Nads!”

3 posted on 02/12/2022 9:24:04 AM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Eleutheria5

Well, if they wanted continued use of the term that’s a pretty good way to get it.


4 posted on 02/12/2022 9:40:08 AM PST by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Spurs problem is not their nickname!


5 posted on 02/12/2022 9:44:29 AM PST by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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To: Eleutheria5

6 posted on 02/12/2022 9:48:04 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Eleutheria5

I attended a Jewish festival in Little Rock a few years back, and a booth named “Lids For Yids” was selling yarmulkes!


7 posted on 02/12/2022 9:55:09 AM PST by mozarky2 (Ya never stand so tall as when ya stoop to stomp a statist...)
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To: 100%FEDUP
Amen. Levy must go. COYS!

For those who don't watch, fans in the English Premier League are a little more vocal with their fanatacism. See this article from a few years ago:

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/abuse-spurs-fans-manchester-tram-12499209

8 posted on 02/12/2022 10:03:29 AM PST by Textide (Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
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To: Eleutheria5

Idiots.

Fans were thick-skinned enough to turn the name-calling against outsiders.

Just as most of our team names were, more or less.

As was “Yankee”. American rebels took the Yankee Doodle ditty and turned it on its head, mocking the redcoats by using it.

When is this cowardly over-sensitive garbage going to stop?


9 posted on 02/12/2022 10:18:51 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

It seems to be something like, “We tried to call them names and they adopted it for their own use! We must ban the name we called them. If anyone disagrees they’re racist”.

Same old thing from leftists.


10 posted on 02/12/2022 10:22:05 AM PST by Textide (Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
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To: Textide

The leftists want to put a muzzle on the deplorables while they have freedom of speech.

It is getting kinda obvious.


11 posted on 02/12/2022 10:24:07 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Eleutheria5

In Yiddish, Yid is pronounced yeed. Antisemities turned it into yid.


12 posted on 02/12/2022 10:30:04 AM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up! )
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To: Textide

Its sad that so many still embrace the hooligan mentality.


13 posted on 02/12/2022 10:32:26 AM PST by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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To: cgbg
“We do not have freedom of speech for the bourgeoisie.” — Stalin
History repeating itself, but in our societies.
14 posted on 02/12/2022 10:33:55 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Eleutheria5

Isn’t this basically the same as black people refering to themselves as n-words as a way of ‘taking it back’? It still sounds vulgar and crass.

Racial slurs should not be seen as socially acceptable, even if they are used by people of the same race they refer to. They should be taken out of circulation.


15 posted on 02/12/2022 11:35:17 AM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: cowboyusa

It existed as a legitimate name of an identity, long before anti-Semites got a hold of it.


16 posted on 02/12/2022 11:40:42 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (January 6, worst assault on democracy since the Reichstag Fire)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

When people laugh right in their faces and refuse to submit.


17 posted on 02/12/2022 11:43:05 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (January 6, worst assault on democracy since the Reichstag Fire)
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

See ##s 12 and 16.


18 posted on 02/12/2022 11:44:43 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (January 6, worst assault on democracy since the Reichstag Fire)
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To: Eleutheria5

That’s like asking Rangers fans to stop singing “Billy Boys”:

Hullo, Hullo

We are the Billy Boys

Hullo, Hullo

You’ll know us by our noise

We’re up to our knees in Fenian blood

Surrender or you’ll die

For we are

The Brigton Derry Boys


19 posted on 02/12/2022 12:00:01 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Eleutheria5

I’ve followed the Premier League for years and I’ve never heard Tottenham fans call themselves ‘Yids.’


20 posted on 02/12/2022 12:11:26 PM PST by darkangel82
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