Comments on: Comments, Racism and Censorship: The Tightrope We Walk http://france.worldcupblog.org/euro-2008/comments-racism-and-censorship-the-tightrope-we-walk.html France - World Cup - South Africa 2010 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:09:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Laurie http://france.worldcupblog.org/euro-2008/comments-racism-and-censorship-the-tightrope-we-walk.html/comment-page-1#comment-142296 Laurie Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:44:29 +0000 http://france.worldcupblog.org/euro-2008/comments-racism-and-censorship-the-tightrope-we-walk.html#comment-142296 Okay, ladies and gents, I think we've all had the chance to make our points. I'm shutting down comments here because it's getting personal. The takehome lesson on this post is: make points in a way that is thoughtful, rational, and respectful, and please let me know of blatantly offensive/racist/etc. comments so I can delete them. laurie[at]theoffside[dot]com. A post is coming up soon on stuff that actually has to do with the game tomorrow! allez les bleus! Okay, ladies and gents, I think we’ve all had the chance to make our points. I’m shutting down comments here because it’s getting personal.

The takehome lesson on this post is: make points in a way that is thoughtful, rational, and respectful, and please let me know of blatantly offensive/racist/etc. comments so I can delete them.

laurie[at]theoffside[dot]com.

A post is coming up soon on stuff that actually has to do with the game tomorrow!

allez les bleus!

]]> By: Fritz Gehbauer http://france.worldcupblog.org/euro-2008/comments-racism-and-censorship-the-tightrope-we-walk.html/comment-page-1#comment-142295 Fritz Gehbauer Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:43:12 +0000 http://france.worldcupblog.org/euro-2008/comments-racism-and-censorship-the-tightrope-we-walk.html#comment-142295 I really enjoyed all of the comments. I never expected to find such a knowledge of history amongst football fans. Even if true or truly interpreted those comments won´t help in the future. Football is not about history, it is about money. Our passion for a marvellous sport? It is being used for making money: By a ridicilous boulevard press to increase its sales, even based on the most basic instincts. By fast and unhealthy food chains, by car makers. By polititians to show their populistic inclinations (have you seen Angela Merkel chatting with a failed second grader like Bastin Schweinsteiger? No German intellectual would get that chance). So, don´t worry about history. The future will be: National teams will be bought together. In the future a match between Germany and France will be not different from a match between Chelsea and Real Madrid: all players will be "nationalised" by money. The only sad thing with that is: Nations with less money will be the losers. So, Italy and French fans don´t argue that seriously, just enjoy intelligent play from which ever brain and foot that comes from. Fritz Gehbauer, Karlsruhe, Germany So, don´t talk about history, talk about money. I really enjoyed all of the comments. I never expected to find such a knowledge of history amongst football fans. Even if true or truly interpreted those comments won´t help in the future. Football is not about history, it is about money. Our passion for a marvellous sport? It is being used for making money: By a ridicilous boulevard press to increase its sales, even based on the most basic instincts. By fast and unhealthy food chains, by car makers. By polititians to show their populistic inclinations (have you seen Angela Merkel chatting with a failed second grader like Bastin Schweinsteiger? No German intellectual would get that chance). So, don´t worry about history. The future will be: National teams will be bought together. In the future a match between Germany and France will be not different from a match between Chelsea and Real Madrid: all players will be “nationalised” by money. The only sad thing with that is: Nations with less money will be the losers.

So, Italy and French fans don´t argue that seriously, just enjoy intelligent play from which ever brain and foot that comes from.

Fritz Gehbauer, Karlsruhe, Germany

So, don´t talk about history, talk about money.

]]> By: Michel-Olivier http://france.worldcupblog.org/euro-2008/comments-racism-and-censorship-the-tightrope-we-walk.html/comment-page-1#comment-142294 Michel-Olivier Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:34:43 +0000 http://france.worldcupblog.org/euro-2008/comments-racism-and-censorship-the-tightrope-we-walk.html#comment-142294 @ Jean-Michel his italian, he complains a lot like any other italians fans on this site, so just ignore them when they are not talking about football. @ Jean-Michel
his italian, he complains a lot like any other italians fans on this site, so just ignore them when they are not talking about football.

]]> By: Jean-Michel http://france.worldcupblog.org/euro-2008/comments-racism-and-censorship-the-tightrope-we-walk.html/comment-page-1#comment-142293 Jean-Michel Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:26:48 +0000 http://france.worldcupblog.org/euro-2008/comments-racism-and-censorship-the-tightrope-we-walk.html#comment-142293 Michel-Olivier, I failed to specify that I was addressing Porchetta. He seemed stuck on the point he was trying to make about "TRUE GALIC/FRENCH ORIGINS" when refering to non-whites on the team. I am not suggesting that you favor Lepen in any way. Michel-Olivier,
I failed to specify that I was addressing Porchetta. He seemed stuck on the point he was trying to make about “TRUE GALIC/FRENCH ORIGINS” when refering to non-whites on the team. I am not suggesting that you favor Lepen in any way.

]]> By: Michel-Olivier http://france.worldcupblog.org/euro-2008/comments-racism-and-censorship-the-tightrope-we-walk.html/comment-page-1#comment-142292 Michel-Olivier Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:16:37 +0000 http://france.worldcupblog.org/euro-2008/comments-racism-and-censorship-the-tightrope-we-walk.html#comment-142292 @ Jean-Michel "all white team are slim to none." i'm no jean-marie lepen, i want the french team to have more players from martinique/guadeloupe((clichy, briand, marveaux, gouffran), caledonie (piquionne), and reunion(payet, sinama-pongolle...) @ Jean-Michel
“all white team are slim to none.”
i’m no jean-marie lepen, i want the french team to have more players from martinique/guadeloupe((clichy, briand, marveaux, gouffran), caledonie (piquionne), and reunion(payet, sinama-pongolle…)

]]> By: Jean-Michel http://france.worldcupblog.org/euro-2008/comments-racism-and-censorship-the-tightrope-we-walk.html/comment-page-1#comment-142291 Jean-Michel Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:57:19 +0000 http://france.worldcupblog.org/euro-2008/comments-racism-and-censorship-the-tightrope-we-walk.html#comment-142291 *yawn...Thanks for the history lesson guy. Never know when that Hapsburg trivia might come in handy. Based on the simple fact that Michel-Olivier dropped (France being a Republic), your dream of France fielding an all white team are slim to none. Sleep tight. Do you dream in color or black and white? *yawn…Thanks for the history lesson guy. Never know when that Hapsburg trivia might come in handy. Based on the simple fact that Michel-Olivier dropped (France being a Republic), your dream of France fielding an all white team are slim to none. Sleep tight. Do you dream in color or black and white?

]]> By: Michel-Olivier http://france.worldcupblog.org/euro-2008/comments-racism-and-censorship-the-tightrope-we-walk.html/comment-page-1#comment-142287 Michel-Olivier Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:15:07 +0000 http://france.worldcupblog.org/euro-2008/comments-racism-and-censorship-the-tightrope-we-walk.html#comment-142287 @ Porchetta i give up you win @ Porchetta
i give up you win

]]> By: Michel-Olivier http://france.worldcupblog.org/euro-2008/comments-racism-and-censorship-the-tightrope-we-walk.html/comment-page-1#comment-142285 Michel-Olivier Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:10:13 +0000 http://france.worldcupblog.org/euro-2008/comments-racism-and-censorship-the-tightrope-we-walk.html#comment-142285 @ Porchetta gomis was born in france and according to the constitution his french. "France is an European nation" last time i check france is a republic that contains lands from all over the globe. @ Porchetta
gomis was born in france and according to the constitution his french.

“France is an European nation”
last time i check france is a republic that contains lands from all over the globe.

]]> By: corvallissoccer http://france.worldcupblog.org/euro-2008/comments-racism-and-censorship-the-tightrope-we-walk.html/comment-page-1#comment-142283 corvallissoccer Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:06:11 +0000 http://france.worldcupblog.org/euro-2008/comments-racism-and-censorship-the-tightrope-we-walk.html#comment-142283 Dude I concede. I can't compete with "the eternal truth". ...eternal truth...seriously?...hehehe Dude I concede. I can’t compete with “the eternal truth”.

…eternal truth…seriously?…hehehe

]]> By: Michel-Olivier http://france.worldcupblog.org/euro-2008/comments-racism-and-censorship-the-tightrope-we-walk.html/comment-page-1#comment-142280 Michel-Olivier Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:57:27 +0000 http://france.worldcupblog.org/euro-2008/comments-racism-and-censorship-the-tightrope-we-walk.html#comment-142280 @ Porchetta French nationality is base on right of soil not right of blood like italy. "the sovereign people of France are composed of all French citizens, regardless of ethnic origins or religious opinions."(fr constitution). "Betefemi Gomis might be a french citizen on account of his birth but he IS NOT OF GALLIC FRENCH ORIGINS" president sarkozy is not of gallic french, so his not french ether right? @ Porchetta
French nationality is base on right of soil not right of blood like italy.
“the sovereign people of France are composed of all French citizens, regardless of ethnic origins or religious opinions.”(fr constitution).

“Betefemi Gomis might be a french citizen on account of his birth but he IS NOT OF GALLIC FRENCH ORIGINS”
president sarkozy is not of gallic french, so his not french ether right?

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