The Euro 2024 football tournament kicks off on Friday, with Scotland in action against hosts Germany. But the real sporting spectacle has already begun, with various British tabloids being labelled as ‘racist’ for daring to run back-page photographs of the black England and Arsenal FC forward Bukayo Saka, following England’s shock 1-0 defeat to lowly Iceland in a friendly warm-up match at Wembley last week. As England’s performance was rather dull, some bored fans threw paper aeroplanes onto the pitch, one of which Saka himself picked up and threw in despair after the result, making for a good picture to lead with on the sports pages of newspapers like the Sun and Daily Star:
How terribly racist! Well, apart from the fact that the largest image on the back-page of the Daily Star is in fact of a demonstrably white footballer, centre-back John Stones, and that the Sun also features a large image of the equally Aryan England manager Gareth Southgate. Still, one headline says ‘BLACK ICE’, which cannot possibly be merely a traditional tabloid pun on England’s opponents, but a sinister dog-whistle attempt to pin all blame for the loss onto the shoulders of Scapegoat Saka, who is clearly being “set up to be the [black-]face of defeat”. This must be so, as none other than BBC pundit Ian Wright, a black former England and Arsenal FC forward himself, says so:
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Consider the following:
Nancy Faeser (SPD, German home secretary), an avid fan of the Antifa, as can easily be determined by searching for images of her on the internet, making another announcement how Germany’s on the brink of being taken over by extreme right-wingers to justify arresting another group of pensioners for having private discussions about politics.
Reaction of English/ American guy on the internet: Just shows again that Germany’s still being run by Nazis!
This makes absolutely no sense as Ms Faeser would probably sue for defamation if someone called her ethnically German in public but it’s going to happen nevertheless. The reason for this is that it’s a learnt, instinctive reaction which happens without thinking. The same is true for all these BBC pseudojournalists. They see a black face somewhere in some nonfavourable context. And they instinctively start ranting about racism, black facing and etc. This doesn’t have to make rational sense as it’s the equivalent of pressing ‘play’ on a tapedeck. This will cause the prerecorded audio on the tape to be played back regardless of the surroundings,
The appropriate and proportionate response to this low grade thinking, weak intellect, mindless blob prattle is a two word Anglo-Saxon command.
Oh, I say!
I CGAF about football. I wouldn’t dream of watching a professional game, not that I watch non-professional either.
The game these days is self satisfied and smug with an awful lot of very mediocre players – occasional YouTube clips – being paid outrageous amounts of money. In fact the game swims with money but only for the top 10-15 %. The lower divisions are starved.
Hmm, an interesting parallel.
And of course we also have Gravy Lineker atop the cake, hardly a great advert.
It’s just boring.
I have felt detached from the England team since the time of the Premier League,when football ceased to be a sport, and became a business. However my association and interest fully died the moment that Gareth Southgate called me a cnut for objecting to the ‘taking of the knee’, an ignorant political gesture that I could not support.
I can only agree Neil and Southgate is a despicable little woketard who has done his bit in denigrating the nation via the National football team and particularly with his knee taking. Utterly embarrassing and shameful.
The Race Card players never let any opportunity slip to play a card. ——-Yesterday on GB news with Tom Harwood there was that nippy leftist blonde woman on moaning about the lack of diversity on the Channel as if it should be a bit more like Bridgerton. This woman will probably sit for hours watching TV adverts to see if she can eventually find one with no black people in it. But she will have a long wait as advertisers have long since learned not to get caught putting 4 white people in an ad.
One of the arguments against colour blind casting in period drama is that so many people use this as their touchstone to understand history. We understand Victorian times through Dickens, as an example. 18th Century English Gentry, was not filled with black faces. There were perhaps fewer than 5,000 black people in the UK at the time, mostly mariners who had settled here. Not if you watch Bridgerton and take it as somewhat accurate of the social make-up of the time.You would imagine it to be common-place. For that reason it is skewing the historical interpretation to a fantasy world which never existed.
There were very few coloured people in Oldham when I was growing up. Now it’s worse than Manchester Airport on a bad day. Awful. Spot the honky.
Where I live was pretty much the same but now black people are appearing on a daily basis out of thin air. This is the result of mass immigration and an asylum racket topped up with 100,000 illegal boat crossings every year.
To mention these facts makes it sound like you have some problem with people because they are black. This is simply NOT the case. NO, I have some problem with a political class that allows our country to be over run with migrants, regardless of their colour, that we cannot possibly cater for in such numbers.
Yes, it’s called “Marxist Historical Revisionism”, and it’s working a treat for them in Britain.
These same TV producers who indulge in their woke “colour blind casting” would never ever have George Clooney to play Nelson Mandela. Their wokery works in one direction only —-Less white people.
Off-T
Kit Knightly at Off-G with an excellent final word on the C1984 lab leak con. There wasn’t one.
No shit Sherlock.
https://off-guardian.org/2024/06/12/offgs-last-word-on-the-lab-leak-theory-illogical-immaterial-and-dangerous/
That’s mainstream news for you.
Some crap about Kier Starmer and Sunak and having Sky TV as kids. I mean who gives a s**t?
Some confected bullshit about images of black players after losing at football.
Traditional media treat the public like retarded monkeys.
And then they’re shocked people turn to social media. At least on social media and the Internet you can find people that talk to you like a thinking adult.
Which is why the Political class hate the Internet. So they seek to “protect the children” to get control of it. They seek ways to silence free thinking people with absurd “hate crime laws” and misinformation quango’s, and there are those would criminalise any questioning of their phony climate crisis and would actually jail people for having a personal opinion on this issue.
Excellent article by Steven Tucker! The truth is that Saka is a useless crybaby who’s had everything set up for him and handed to him on a plate, like so many of these diversity hires. The other players are quietly told to hang back and make things easy for the diversity hires.
I used to love watching football decades ago, when English players played for English teams, French players played for French teams, African players played for African teams, Muslim players played for Muslim nation teams, etc. I really admired their skill in proudly representing their own people. Like Usain Bolt proudly representing his own people of Jamaica, and they are really proud of him as one of their own.
Now, it’s a case of “Spot the Englishman”, or “Spot the Frenchman”, or “Spot the German”. Like the telly or the movies or even adverts, with a blonde woman looking adoringly up at her African husband and their miscegenated sprogs, it’s no fun to watch anymore.
The only advert that made me laugh was a Japanese one for laundry powder. The Japanese woman in the laundry room was being courted by an African man, so she gently pushed him into the washing machine, added the laundry powder, then beamed with delight as out stepped a handsome Japanese man. 🙂
Try this little experiment. ——Watch TV adverts and see how long it takes you to find one with 5 people in it where the 5 are all white. ———I guarantee you will sitting there for some considerable time. Which is quite remarkable since white people make up about 85% of the population. If the cast of adverts were chosen randomly they would almost certainly mostly consist of white people, just as TV ads in the Congo might be mostly filled with black people.
This agenda treats black people like they are either complete imbeciles or fetish toys of a deranged elite. It is nothing to me. I wouldn’t go on holiday to certain countries and I wouldn’t want the citizens of certain nationalities in my country but this means nothing. When the government was waxing lyrical about Brexit they described ‘Global Britain’ – maybe some super efficient Singapore writ large or a cosmpolitan melting pot like Samarkand. Instead you got the most retarded elements of the most backward countries in the world – these countries were very happy to get rid of these characters and they saw the British love of cheap labour as a marriage made in heaven.
I recall an advert (TikTok I think.) only a couple of years ago with Daniel Radcliffe, opining about a fictitious Grandmother, who had her home destroyed in conflict, lost her family, finally getting to safety in the UK, only to be met with hostility by the anti-‘refugee’ mob. Does it ever occur to the lefties that its not Grandma, but drug or sex traffickers, or shoplifting gangs, or terrorists, people who are distinctly up to no good, who have been well funded to travel half way round the world to come here and suck from our welfare teat..?
I think you will find, Neil, that the Lefties are very well aware that the boats are chock full of fit young RoP adherents who hate us. And that the mass of “students” who fly in are pretty much the same.
That’s precisely why the Lefties, including our Beloved “Conservative” Leaders are determined to have “open borders”.
As a complete aside, I quite like bananas on toast.