Serbian volleyball player apologizes to Thai team for alleged racist gesture

[MaxYakov]

A cheap shot by a bunch of jocks - no news here.

[tifino]

all depends in what country one does it...

 

   imagine the uproar if they'd done a:

 on asian soil...

 

  or worse still the Illuminati Salute...

 

[robblok]

20 hours ago, TooPoopedToPop said:

Tempest in a teapot.

   So many people nowadays seem to be looking for any excuse to be offended.

Yes like all those foreigners when Anutin made his remark.

 

Strange that i hear Thais can't be offended but the resident foreigners here certainly blew a fuse over his remark.

 

You either judge both as wrong or neither.

 

Not sure if you said anything about Anutin but this is just a general remark.

[Bluespunk]

11 hours ago, Poet said:

Here is what you all want to see:





Really not as bad as you might imagine from the reporting. The gesture was made to a teammate, just a fleeting joke and not a provocation to the other team. They have a robust sense of humor in the Balkans that has not yet been beaten down by cancel culture.

Cracking lass.

 

Here's what we all want to see?

 

I don't.

 

Why would I want to see a picture of someone making an ignorant, racist gesture?

Edited June 3, 2021 by Bluespunk
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[Bluespunk]

10 hours ago, hotchilli said:

How is that message conveyed by pulling your eyes into a slit?

It can't be, clearly she was lying when she invented that BS excuse.

[Poet]

28 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

Why would I want to see a picture of someone making an ignorant, racist gesture?

For the same reason that you decided to read an entire thread about someone making an ignorant, racist gesture.

[Poet]

6 hours ago, Caldera said:

I'm a bit surprised how many forum members condone the gesture.

I have not seen anyone here condone the gesture. Some of us have questioned the rush to characterize a foolish joke as Racism™
 

6 hours ago, Caldera said:

I'm pretty sure if a Thai had done something equally low-key racist to a farang on the BTS, there would be outrage.

Would they? Really?

There is plenty of low-key racism in Thailand but we take it in our stride, because it doesn't matter. About the only example I can think of that regularly gets discussed here is overcharging and dual-pricing.

 

6 hours ago, Caldera said:

Members of sports teams that take part in international tournaments should really know better!

Why?

She was selected for her ability to play volleyball. She probably spent her most of her freetime as a teen training rather than keeping up with the latest woke indoctrination on Twitter.

She made a fleeting mistake during the elation of winning the game, was genuinely upset when she realized people were offended, and immediately made an in-person apology to the entire Thai team.

What more, exactly, do reasonable people want from a teenage girl?

One of the woke members in this thread demanded that she be banned for life from competing in the Olympics. The lack of generosity, human empathy, and grace in that response, and what it tells us about where the current woke hysteria is leading us, should worry you far more than a young woman's foolish joke.

 

Edited June 3, 2021 by Poet

[Bluespunk]

59 minutes ago, Poet said:

For the same reason that you decided to read an entire thread about someone making an ignorant, racist gesture.

Nonsense. 

[Poet]

3 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

Nonsense. 

Brilliantly argued.

[VillageIdiot]

1 hour ago, Poet said:

For the same reason that you decided to read an entire thread about someone making an ignorant, racist gesture.

Profound comment.

It says a lot about the psychology of those who are quick to take umbrage at little things like this.

[Bluespunk]

2 minutes ago, VillageIdiot said:

Profound comment.

It says a lot about the psychology of those who are quick to take umbrage at little things like this.

Racism is never a little thing…

[VillageIdiot]

Just now, Bluespunk said:

Racism is never a little thing…

Little things trigger little minds.

[Bluespunk]

Just now, VillageIdiot said:

Little things trigger little minds.

And racist gestures are not little things. 

[Poet]

2 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

Racism is never a little thing…

Not if you spend your every moment on this forum desperately searching for ways to signal your virtue.

Back in reality, meanwhile, characterizing a foolish joke by a young woman as "racism" merely dilutes the term beyond any meaning and hurts the fight against actual, real racism.

 

[Bluespunk]

1 minute ago, Poet said:

Not if you spend your every moment on this forum desperately searching for ways to signal your virtue.

Back in reality, meanwhile, characterizing a foolish joke by a young woman as "racism" merely dilutes the term beyond any meaning and hurts the fight against actual, real racism.

 

Oh dear, you don’t like having things pointed out to you, do you?

 

Oh and there should be zero tolerance for any racist gesture. 

[Poet]

Just now, Bluespunk said:

Oh dear, you don’t like having things pointed out to you, do you?

What have you pointed out?

Six posts on this page alone, all frantically signallying your virtue.

This is all you ever seem to do on this forum. Pathetic.
 

 

1 minute ago, Bluespunk said:

Oh and there should be zero tolerance for any racist gesture. 

This is why you Social Justice Warriors will fail. You interpret perfectly normal human errors as an excuse to cancel people and destroy lives. People are starting to notice the robotic lack of nuance. They are finally starting to see your mob behavior for what it is: hypocritical bullying, by a tiny group of disenfranchised losers, desperate to demonstrate power at any possible opportunity.

[VillageIdiot]

5 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

Oh dear, you don’t like having things pointed out to you, do you?

 

Oh and there should be zero tolerance for any racist gesture. 

Self-appointed "zero tolerance" enforcers have the same mindset as the gauleiters did in Nazi Germany.

[Bluespunk]

1 minute ago, Poet said:

What have you pointed out?

Six posts on this page alone, all frantically signallying your virtue.

This is all you ever seem to do on this forum. Pathetic.
 

 

This is why you Social Justice Warriors will fail. You interpret perfectly normal human errors as an excuse to cancel people and destroy lives. People are starting to notice the robotic lack of nuance. They are finally starting to see your mob behavior for what it is: hypocritical bullying, by a tiny group of disenfranchised losers, desperate to demonstrate power at any possible opportunity.

It was a racist gesture and no real attempt to admit mea culpa on the part of the person who made it, just a pathetic attempt at excusing it away. 

 

It deserves all the condemnation being made. 

[Bluespunk]

2 minutes ago, VillageIdiot said:

Self-appointed "zero tolerance" enforcers have the same mindset as the gauleiters did in Nazi Germany.

Nonsense. 

[MisterTee]

6 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

Nonsense. 

You've shot your load.

[Lucky Bones]

By Crickey, by George, by Jingo.

She stuffed up and lied to try to cover it.

Not good but not fatal for a teen.

Living on the Darkside I experience Farang racial discrimination nearly every day.

But we all get on and are friends.

Fabulous place to live.

Just chill out.

[Bluespunk]

2 minutes ago, MisterTee said:

You've shot your load.

Oh dear, that the best you can do…

[bannork]

 The Thai players should have responded by  mouthing the words:

'Srebrenica, Srebrenica, Serbian mass murderers' 

[impulse]

13 hours ago, Captain Monday said:

 

So It is a thing with these Serbianas they have been doing it for years. Any women of color on this team? They are insensitive to overt white supremacist gestures and taunts, all a joke to them I guess. 

I won't be visiting Serbia any time soon.

 

https://nextshark.com/serbian-volleyball-team-poses-racist-slant-eyes-celebrate-going-japan/

 

Buncha supremacists!  Not a single short, fat, or ugly chick on the team...

[VillageIdiot]

11 minutes ago, bannork said:

 The Thai players should have responded by  mouthing the words:

'Srebrenica, Srebrenica, Serbian mass murderers' 

That would presume a knowledge of history that 99% of Thais seem to be blissfully ignorant of.

[bannork]

21 minutes ago, VillageIdiot said:

That would presume a knowledge of history that 99% of Thais seem to be blissfully ignorant of.

True, but it might have shut those ignorant imbeciles up.

[VillageIdiot]

16 minutes ago, bannork said:

True, but it might have shut those ignorant imbeciles up.

C'mon bro, you're being too harsh. 

My comment about Thais might have sounded that way too, but I love Thais... lived among them most of my adult life and wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

[bangon04]

14 hours ago, Caldera said:

I'm a bit surprised how many forum members condone the gesture. I'm pretty sure if a Thai had done something equally low-key racist to a farang on the BTS, there would be outrage.

 

what non-verbal gesture would be equally low-key racist to a farang? I am curious....