Quote Originally Posted by Med Pie View Post
I was told recently that referring to black players specifically as 'A' or 'The beast', is now considered derogatory. I don't think it is personally, I use the term to refer to any anyone who is lucky enough to be so powerfully built, of any colour.

Edit: I note in the previous posts that the quotation mark glitch still occurs but it didn't with my post?
Every now and again I feel like you're capable of an actual discussion.

I do somewhat agree with where you're coming from, but more often than not players of colour often are referred to by their traits - what they are - rather than who they are, it's one of those things where you'd not call a white player that as casually as a black player and it's where it stems from.

It's been a common thing in sports for years and really has been considered more in the past four years a bit stronger than it used to be.

Here's a paper where someone was quoted way back in 1987 as to why beastial terms are subtly racist.

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/v...ontext=pocpwi2

Basically... Victor Wanyama would likely be called a 'beast' but Sam Vokes would be called a 'unit'