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I'm trying to get my head around the public response to it.
I haven't seen what he said in context, but I'm going to just go out on a massive limb here and say that it was:
- Contextual, and
- Part of a wider multifaceted point that you'd probably have to put more than 4sec into reading.
Assuming 1. and 2. are true, I can 100% understand the public being a bunch of basic bitches about whatever he said.
- Contextual, and
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Any of you ladies and chaps following the twitter pile on over Gary Lineker mentioning that he was bullied for having "darkish skin"?
I'm trying to get my head around the public response to it. I've got pretty vivid memories of receiving a fair amount of racist abuse for having "darkish skin" as an english kid in the 90s. I won't repeat the kind of things that were said to me but I'm trying to understand why everybody is mocking him for somehow claiming that he's a victim of racism when that isn't what he said afaik.
In my own experience, people used racist slurs towards me despite me not being of those races. Isn't that the point he was trying to make? For me its just a reflection on how normalised and widespread some racist terms were back then.