Asante - Insta

[baggieal]

Asante should concentrate on representing West Brom as a professional footballer.

Sharing Jeremy Corbyn’s tweet on his Insta was poor. Corbyn says - why is there always money to bomb people but never any money to feed, house or care for people.

Asante should not be publicly getting involved in politics. Most people can’t stand Corbyn who clearly hates Jews and has strong radical views.

Asante is young but this was naive!

[baggiematt]

Asante should concentrate on representing West Brom as a professional footballer.

Sharing Jeremy Corbyn’s tweet on his Insta was poor. Corbyn says - why is there always money to bomb people but never any money to feed, house or care for people.

Asante should not be publicly getting involved in politics. Most people can’t stand Corbyn who clearly hates Jews and has strong radical views.

Asante is young but this was naive!

Such an odd viewpoint. Players can’t use their celebrity status to make positive change and should just literally live 24/7 in a status of focussing on football?

Besides it’s a really accurate point from Corbyn.

[On Balance]

Asante should concentrate on representing West Brom as a professional footballer.

Sharing Jeremy Corbyn’s tweet on his Insta was poor. Corbyn says - why is there always money to bomb people but never any money to feed, house or care for people.

Asante should not be publicly getting involved in politics. Most people can’t stand Corbyn who clearly hates Jews and has strong radical views.

Asante is young but this was naive!

Al, can you provide a link to what has been said?

Freedom of speech is the right of everyone. Whether one agrees or not is up to the individual. So if you could put a link to what Asante has commented on then that might be helpful in order to consider his comments in regards to a particular topic and then make comment to it.

[baggieal]

Al, can you provide a link to what has been said?

Freedom of speech is the right of everyone. Whether one agrees or not is up to the individual. So if you could put a link to what Asante has commented on then that might be helpful in order to consider his comments in regards to a particular topic and then make comment to it.

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My point OB - why is he getting involved as antisemitism is huge now and Corbyn was clearly referring to Gaza. What about any Jews that have supported Asante - would they be impressed? People go on about Trump who I dislike but for me Corbyn is no better and some would say worse.

The point was merely why get involved regardless of what you think especially publicly.

[baggieal]

It’s on his Insta story OB. My point simply was why get involved in politics publicly as clearly Corbin is racist to the Jews and sadly there’s a huge increase in antisemitism. Would any Jewish supporters be impressed so why go there?

There’s no winner in this conflict sadly and many would say the huge financial support for Ukraine could go towards the cost of living crisis. Yes it could but then what about Putin who is similar to Hamas and Iran.

Just think Asante was naive as why get involved or if you do - debate it amongst friends. That’s all!

[Omegstrat6]

Personally, I think BTA has the right to freedom of thought and speech as anyone else but -like most employees- must be careful to make sure that it is clear that these are his views and not necessarily those of his employer.

As for the sentiment, on the face of it it seems perfectly reasonable as it does seem that money can always be raised for waging war which kills people, rather than housing, food, education, health care etc. Maybe if it was the other way around and populations were happier maybe there would be less wars? But, of course, it is far more complex than that and history shows us that it is not always poor economic reasons at home that lead to wars as political, racial and religious extremism all play their part. Because of this, it is only right that any country needs to spend an appropriate amount on its defence and military. I certainly believe that whilst the "new 1939" comments may be an exaggeration, warnings about the inadequate state of our own spending in this area should be heeded. Better, surely, to tackle social and economic inequalities through means which do not entail further cuts in the defence budget.

As for Corbyn, just because he made the comment does not then make it necessarily wrong -though baggieal is absolutely right when he talks of a degree of naivety on BTA's part for not taking into account the anti-Semitic views many now associate with him.

As for Gaza, my own views have not changed. The attack by Hamas was heinous and unforgivable but there is a clear distinction between being Jewish and being Zionist. Right wingers like Netanyahu actively support illegal expansionism into Palestinian lands and happily operate a system akin to apartheid (a view that Carter, Hitchens and many others - including some Jewish scholars -have expressed). Israel, of course, has the right to defend itself but the likes of Netanyahu are part of the problem, not the solution.

[boingy]

Its a true statement wherever its come from. War has always had more money compared to people who need it to survive without a War. Its always been the same. Whatever anyone thinks of Corbyn. He's a young Lad showing how he feels about it. When I was younger I did the same thing. As I've got older I keep a lot to myself because of the hostility from those who disagree. Not because of fear but because with social media you can never have a decent conversation without someone blowing up somewhere.

[DaveP67 is back!]

Such an odd viewpoint. Players can’t use their celebrity status to make positive change and should just literally live 24/7 in a status of focussing on football?

Besides it’s a really accurate point from Corbyn.

While I loathe Corbyn he is correct, his ‘friends’ in Hamas have ruined a generation of Palestinian lives by spending billions in aid on building tunnels and rockets..

[Omegstrat6]

Its a true statement wherever its come from. War has always had more money compared to people who need it to survive without a War. Its always been the same. Whatever anyone thinks of Corbyn. He's a young Lad showing how he feels about it. When I was younger I did the same thing. As I've got older I keep a lot to myself because of the hostility from those who disagree. Not because of fear but because with social media you can never have a decent conversation without someone blowing up somewhere.

Totally agree with you Boingy!
Sadly-and social media and it's enablement of hateful keyboard warriors has a lot to blame for this I'm sure-any culture for the encouragement of reasoned debate seems to be fast disappearing in this country. IMHO, this needs to start being addressed from an early age in schools.

The current fight back for freedom of thought and expression around the idea of "gender identity" may at least show some signs of hope. The initial concept of being "woke" (awake) to issues and inequalities around race or ***uality was a good thing but it has escalated out of hand into a "cancel culture". As philosopher Karl Popper commented : "Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance...if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society, then the tolerant will be destroyed and tolerance with them"

[Albionic68]

I think I can excuse Brandon a 'like' on a social media platform...... especially if he bags the winner tomorrow, sod it, an equaliser would be equally welcome.