OT Azeem Rafiq inquiry

[mygiddypant]

Listened to Azeem Rafiq’s testimony to the DCMS hearing earlier today. Shocking that YCC failed to take action to remedy the racist culture amongst certain players in the dressing room.

[millertop]

It’s shocking but then again I don’t know what really happened so hard to comment but it doesn’t surprise me at all

It needs someone to stand up and admit what they did

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

It’s shocking but then again I don’t know what really happened so hard to comment but it doesn’t surprise me at all

It needs someone to stand up and admit what they did

The answer is simple, be very careful who you employ

[avondalemiller]

.....strange how money helps ...................

[CAMiller]

.....strange how money helps ...................

You could use the same argument as to why battered wives go back to their husbands but it doesn't make it right.

[jockey]

Whatever the rights and wrongs of all this - like others I am concerned that the BBC and most other media outlets wet themselves if given an oppourtunity to bang the PC drum -all the better if it involves giving some northerners a good kicking.

You would be naive to think 'racism' and racist comments have been eliminated and if you look far enough and backward enough you will find it. What rankles with me in this case is this everything on one side is accepted as true with the purest of motives.Anybody suggesting anything different will be 'cancelled'. This is not a sign of a healthy democratic society. By all means challenge racism but lets have some balance to the issue.

[great_fire]

Whatever the rights and wrongs of all this - like others I am concerned that the BBC and most other media outlets wet themselves if given an oppourtunity to bang the PC drum -all the better if it involves giving some northerners a good kicking.

You would be naive to think 'racism' and racist comments have been eliminated and if you look far enough and backward enough you will find it. What rankles with me in this case is this everything on one side is accepted as true with the purest of motives.Anybody suggesting anything different will be 'cancelled'. This is not a sign of a healthy democratic society. By all means challenge racism but lets have some balance to the issue.

It is the same with the #MeToo thing too, nothing has to be proven anymore.

[mygiddypant]

Whatever the rights and wrongs of all this - like others I am concerned that the BBC and most other media outlets wet themselves if given an oppourtunity to bang the PC drum -all the better if it involves giving some northerners a good kicking.

You would be naive to think 'racism' and racist comments have been eliminated and if you look far enough and backward enough you will find it. What rankles with me in this case is this everything on one side is accepted as true with the purest of motives.Anybody suggesting anything different will be 'cancelled'. This is not a sign of a healthy democratic society. By all means challenge racism but lets have some balance to the issue.

Your post has no balance jockey; "the BBC and most other media outlets wet themselves if given an oppourtunity to bang the PC drum -all the better if it involves giving some northerners a good kicking." Really? This is a familiar meme beloved by the extreme right whose idea of a 'balanced' view is QAnon

[KerrAvon]

You could use the same argument as to why battered wives go back to their husbands but it doesn't make it right.

I agree with the thrust of that Cam.

The question 'why did he go back' on this thread reminds me of one of the standard lines of cross examination in many Domestic Abuse cases: 'If he did what you say, why did you go back to/remain with him?' The two main responses to that question are: 'Because I thought he had changed' and 'Because I had nowhere else to go'.

The second of those responses may be particularly relevant here. Rafiq isn't a supermarket shelf stacker - he's a county class cricket player. He doesn't have a great deal of choice in where he can ply his trade

[Scum-Triumphant]

It’s shocking but then again I don’t know what really happened so hard to comment but it doesn’t surprise me at all

It needs someone to stand up and admit what they did

Like Bumble has.