Quote Originally Posted by On Balance View Post
What on earth is going on in football today.

I saw this on the news last night. It really does make you wonder what sort of society we live in.

Why on earth do people write such disgraceful things about the people in their football club.

Some blame social media but the truth is it is the people who misuse it that are the problem. Clubs are trying to identify the users who made these disgusting remarks and then ban them. Hopefully they will be identified and the correct action taken.

It is the shameful side of football.

The link is to the BBC report on the topic.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football...s/c4g98zkx518o
Whilst you are ultimately right to lay the blame on those using it, I think that social media is a major part of the problem though OB simply because it enables it to happen so easily. The NRA for example, consistently argue their case by saying "it's the shooter not the gun" but ignore the simple logic that restricting the number of guns decreases the risk factor of someone being shot.

You cannot, of course, dis-invent either the gun or social media but knowing how easily both can be abused with sometimes horrendous results you would have thought better policing methods might be considered.

People who wouldn't dare speak such thoughts out aloud or say them to someone face to face can so easily become a key board warrior of the worst sort because there is no-one to challenge that behaviour. The issue then is that they get so used to being able to do so online with little fear of any consequences that they do then begin to pick up the courage to also be vocal about it off-line too. Couple this with a rise in populism and we get neither a reasonably informed society nor a very nice one 😞

For all the attention given to woke-ism in the media, in the real world UK 7/10 women still report that they have been victims of ***ual harassment and well over a third of the BME community still say they have faced racial abuse or discrimination. And no, most people do not call out such behaviour when they witness it.

Taking the knee in solidarity was easy, it cost little but ultimately achieved little. Actively showing racism/ ***ism the "red card" will achieve more but it requires more effort and can cost more. Like yourself, I hope that those responsible are found and dealt with.