: Sat Jun 27, 2009 9:21 am
Dan155 wrote:
lol what next? Why dont we have the morality police patrolling the stadiums telling people when their chanting is too aggressive and is likely to cause offence? "Excuse me sir, you cant sing "you dont know what your doing", officials deserve to be applauded regardless of their performance, your unsavoury chant may scare the poor chappy" or "you cant call that player crap, relatively he's quite good compared to you, one minute its calling him crap, next minute its forming a lynch mob to kill the poor fella".
Restricting what people are allowed to say isn't going to stop a few idiots from being violent, they will still be thinking what they aren't saying.
Been there done that and its failed. Telling people what they can and can’t do simply doesn’t work as proven with the messages that go out on the speakers throughout super league. But encouraging people to behave in a more healthy manner is the way forward IMO.
If people still want to sing hate songs then fine by me because I’m all for the freedom of speech. But there’s nothing wrong in encouraging healthier banter. Forcing it would just face us with an Orwellian match day experience that even myself doesn’t want to experience!