Being racist or having racist views is still common place in the Western world but being called a racist is seen as such a disgusting thing CAC's will deny it to high heaven despite proof to the contrary.
In recent years, it seems whenever someone makes a racist statement/opinon whatever instead of tackling the issue, all the focus is on whether or not so and so is racist.
To me, this looks like a relatively new tactic of doing/saying racial disriminatory things but using the "but i'm not racist" issue as a distraction of the main point. Anyone else noticed this trend? Any examples?
I thought of this after reading this on wikipedia about French national football team manager and world cup winning captain Laurent Blanc
"On 28 April 2011, French investigative website Mediapart released a story which claimed that the French Football Federation had been attempting to secretly put in place a race-quota system in order to limit the number of dual-nationality players in its national academies. Quoting a senior figure in the FFF, the organization was said to have wanted to set a cap of 30% on the number of players of non-French origin by limiting places the academies in the 12–13 age bracket. On 29 April, Blanc, who, in the report, was claimed to have agreed with the decision to implement the quotas, held a personal press conference at the l'Hôtel Le Régent in Bordeaux, in which he also denied the report declaring that he had "not heard of such a project".On the following day, after Mediapart announced that it had a taped audio recording of the November 2010 meeting, Blanc released a statement on the FFF's website in which he apologized for possible offending comments he made during the meeting, while also declaring he was misquoted and denying he was racist stating "I do not withdraw the remarks I made yesterday. I admit that some terms used during a meeting on a sensitive subject can be ambiguous, out of context, and, if in my case, I've hurt some feelings, I apologize. But being suspected of racism or xenophobia, which I am against all forms of discrimination, I do not support it".
Eh? You've just done a discriminatory act. That does make you a racist but that is not the point. The point is the kids are getting discriminated against due to ethnic background.
In recent years, it seems whenever someone makes a racist statement/opinon whatever instead of tackling the issue, all the focus is on whether or not so and so is racist.
To me, this looks like a relatively new tactic of doing/saying racial disriminatory things but using the "but i'm not racist" issue as a distraction of the main point. Anyone else noticed this trend? Any examples?
I thought of this after reading this on wikipedia about French national football team manager and world cup winning captain Laurent Blanc
"On 28 April 2011, French investigative website Mediapart released a story which claimed that the French Football Federation had been attempting to secretly put in place a race-quota system in order to limit the number of dual-nationality players in its national academies. Quoting a senior figure in the FFF, the organization was said to have wanted to set a cap of 30% on the number of players of non-French origin by limiting places the academies in the 12–13 age bracket. On 29 April, Blanc, who, in the report, was claimed to have agreed with the decision to implement the quotas, held a personal press conference at the l'Hôtel Le Régent in Bordeaux, in which he also denied the report declaring that he had "not heard of such a project".On the following day, after Mediapart announced that it had a taped audio recording of the November 2010 meeting, Blanc released a statement on the FFF's website in which he apologized for possible offending comments he made during the meeting, while also declaring he was misquoted and denying he was racist stating "I do not withdraw the remarks I made yesterday. I admit that some terms used during a meeting on a sensitive subject can be ambiguous, out of context, and, if in my case, I've hurt some feelings, I apologize. But being suspected of racism or xenophobia, which I am against all forms of discrimination, I do not support it".
Eh? You've just done a discriminatory act. That does make you a racist but that is not the point. The point is the kids are getting discriminated against due to ethnic background.
