Egg Chasing wrote:
Did you go tonight or did you boycott it because there was a rainbow flag on the program?
Bit out of the blue and probably a bit unfair. People have differing opinions on things like this and cases can probably be made for all of them. I avoided getting involved last time but for what it's worth, my views are :-
Of course there is a racism and homophobic problem in this country as there are many other problems but they aren't a sport issue they are a social one. If somebody needs educating on the rights and wrongs of either crime then it needs to be done in a class room not in a sporting arena. As far as I am aware, the Keeling originated from the death of a villain in the US and ended up in our sport and as far as I am aware there isn't a pandemic of homophobia anywhere that has been reported, it's just being used as a tool like you see now on TV adverts. Agenda pushing has gone way too far, to the point where it appears the average working class white man doesn't appear to buy goods from companies any more. If the kneeling and rainbows etc are designed to be a preventative measure then why don't they just go the whole hog and have minutes laying down for speeding drivers, people not eating their greens and drug use. In my opinion the major cause of hate crimes is fuelled by lack of education, the empty headedness of young adults now is frightening. Drug taking is the root of all these evils in my view, it's illegal, it kills people and it fuels violence. I won't go too deep into it and won't say any more on the matter but those are my views and if people have differing opinions I think they should be respected for what they are.
