Castleford fined £40,000 for homophobic chants by fans

[roughyedspud]

As someone with Ginger hair i don't think Thomas can complain about anything. If he got abused everyday at school since he was 6 about being gay then fair enough.

I doubt that happened though.

Anti Ginger chants are on a par with insults about the colour of skin. Probably worse as they are seen as harmless fun.

must resist!!!!!!! :crazy:

 

[1 Eyed TEZZA]

must resist!!!!!!! :crazy:

Why? He's just a red head..

 

[roughyedspud]

red heads are fine....

its effing gingers that i'm afraid off.....lmao

 

[Evil Homer]

Gingers have feelings too.

 

[roughyedspud]

no they don't....they are devoid of a central nervous system

 

[WireMan]

Well you just proved the point. :roll:


Go and say the same thing about someone with different skin colour.

go on, i dare ya.

 

[roughyedspud]

if your not happy with your hair colour...DYE IT!


unfortunately ellary hanley et al...don't have that luxury

 

[WireMan]

if your not happy with your hair colour...DYE IT!


unfortunately ellary hanley et al...don't have that luxury

So if i don't want to be insulted about something i was born with i should have to change that thing??

Why should i have to do that?

On what planet is it right for someone to have to change something just to avoid petty insults about colour or creed?

 

[roughyedspud]

about colour or creed???? you've got ginger hair....get over it



you'll be putting gingers up there with the jews next..

 

[jim_57]

red heads are fine....

Damn right, I've seen my share of fine looking red-heads.

 

[WireMan]

about colour or creed???? you've got ginger hair....get over it



you'll be putting gingers up there with the jews next..

So you won't say the same thing about skin colour?

Yet you think that insulting someone about having ginger hair is a laugh but about other things is wrong?

A wee bit Hypocritical don't you think?

 

[Evil Homer]

So you won't say the same thing about skin colour?

Yet you think that insulting someone about having ginger hair is a laugh but about other things is wrong?

A wee bit Hypocritical don't you think?

No, you are absolutely deluded if you think that jokes about hair colour are in any way comparable to racist abuse.

 

[WireMan]

No, you are absolutely deluded if you think that jokes about hair colour are in any way comparable to racist abuse.

And you are deluded if you think its just harmless banter.

You been on the end of racist abuse due to something you were born with? You must have to be an expert. Not nice is it?

 

[Evil Homer]

And you are deluded if you think its just harmless banter.

You been on the end of racist abuse due to something you were born with? You must have to be an expert. Not nice is it?

The difference being that ginger 'abuse' is almost always done in a light-hearted context amongst friends. It's equivalent to making jokes about somebody having a girly haircut or a big nose. Nobody has been killed as a result of being ginger, gingers as a group have never been targeted or discriminated against on any sort of serious level. The fact that you are likening it to homophobic or racial abuse is frankly absurd. People are always going to make jokes about aspects of people's character or appearance, if you really are offended by it then just say something, dye your hair or even better grow a thicker skin.

 

[WireMan]

The difference being that ginger 'abuse' is almost always done in a light-hearted context amongst friends. It's equivalent to making jokes about somebody having a girly haircut or a big nose. Nobody has been killed as a result of being ginger, gingers as a group have never been targeted or discriminated against on any sort of serious level. The fact that you are likening it to homophobic or racial abuse is frankly absurd. People are always going to make jokes about aspects of people's character or appearance, if you really are offended by it then just say something, dye your hair or even better grow a thicker skin.

Gingers as a group never targetted? The whole thread came onto the ginger point as one was targeted because of his hair colour, then the next three or four posts were people just laughing.

I don't think the abuse Graham got was light hearted amongst friends was it?

The fact that you continue to argue shows that its one of the few forms of acceptable discrimination left in the world.

 

[1 Eyed TEZZA]

The difference being that ginger 'abuse' is almost always done in a light-hearted context amongst friends. It's equivalent to making jokes about somebody having a girly haircut or a big nose. Nobody has been killed as a result of being ginger, gingers as a group have never been targeted or discriminated against on any sort of serious level. The fact that you are likening it to homophobic or racial abuse is frankly absurd. People are always going to make jokes about aspects of people's character or appearance, if you really are offended by it then just say something, dye your hair or even better grow a thicker skin.

3 boys held in attacks on redhead

LOS ANGELES — Three boys were booked on suspicion of bullying or kicking red-haired students at a middle school when a "Kick a Ginger Day" prank inspired by a "South Park" episode got out of hand, authorities said Monday.
A 13-year-old boy was detained last week for investigation of threatening to inflict injury by means of electronic communication — essentially, cyberbullying. Two 12-year-olds were booked for battery on school property, Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.
The three suspects, whose identities were not released because of their ages, were booked Wednesday and released to their parents. They could face misdemeanor charges, but it was unclear when the case might be submitted for possible prosecution, Whitmore said.
Four girls and three boys reported that schoolmates shoved or kicked them on Nov. 20 at A.E. Wright Middle School in Calabasas, an affluent suburb of Los Angeles.
No serious injuries were reported. Most incidents involved a single person kicking a student's shoe or leg, but one youngster was bruised when three or four boys confronted him at once, said Donald Zimring, superintendent of the Las Virgenes Unified School District.
He may have been kicked in the groin or head while on the ground, although accounts differ, Zimring said.
"Any time a youngster gets hurt because of a thoughtless act ... there ought to be consequences," Zimring said.
Assemblies were held Monday at the school to discuss the incident.
Investigators said the attacks apparently were inspired by a 2005 episode of "South Park" that parodied racial prejudice by having the character Cartman incite a hate campaign against freckled, red-haired "ginger kids."
The episode apparently inspired the 13-year-old to send his friends a Facebook message declaring "Kick a Ginger Day," Zimring said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34212933/

 

[Evil Homer]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34212933/

Yes, because 13 year olds kicking each other is equivalent to mass genocide. :?

 

[1 Eyed TEZZA]

I found it funny to be honest.

There is also a "be nice to rangas day" facebook page.