Player abuse and retaliation

[Browner]

I would be hard pressed to be offended if anyone other than an Englishman said it.

Yep, treat me differently purely because of my nationality ...... Irony anyone?

 

[Lee Lifeson-Peart]

Yep, treat me differently purely because of my nationality ...... Irony anyone?

He's not wrong though.

 

[Shelflife]

Yep, treat me differently purely because of my nationality ...... Irony anyone?

He's not wrong though.

Yeah but its context really, if a coloured person uses the N word to another coloured person that is semingly acceptable, but if a white person does the same its not acceptable.

 

[Browner]

My point is that if you treat a verbal abuser differently based on your assessment of his nationality judged against your issues with history, it makes you as much a racist as him.

Would you prosecute only one race for shoplifting? and let all others off?

Its a tad hypocritical.

 

[Chogan]

 

[RobLev]

Yeah but its context really, if a coloured person uses the N word to another coloured person that is semingly acceptable, but if a white person does the same its not acceptable.

Since a large part of the meaning of words depends on context, I don't see a problem (either?).

 

[RobLev]

My point is that if you treat a verbal abuser differently based on your assessment of his nationality judged against your issues with history, it makes you as much a racist as him.

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Unless you are suggesting that, in deciding whether the words used constitute abuse, context should be ignored, no-one would suggest this.