Unbelievable by ferdinand, makes me wonder what, if anything, is happening between his ears.
He's a footballer, why does anyone think anything is between his ears.
The problem is, THIS IS NOT RACISM. He was simply laughing at something someone else said, is he stupid for reposting it, sure, I personally think people are stupid for both needing to follow other peoples every thoughts AND for having the cheek to get offended by everything everyone THINKS.
Has anyone for a split second even considered anything, ever, illegal or morally objectionable but never in a million years would you do said thing, should you be held responsible for your wandering mind having thoughts.
Part of life and knowing who you are and what you are capable of is having thoughts, thinking through things and dissmissing things. IE, I've wondered if I'd be capable of killing someone, then decided, in cold blood its something I'd simply never be capable of however I'd have no problem doing it to protect someone else.
We should not EVER hold people accountable for off the cuff remarks, jokes, responding to jokes or thoughts.
If you CHOOSE to go read twitter, you need to be aware these aren't well thought out statements, they aren't heavily invested into personal beliefs of people its momentary thoughts, bullcrap, nothing serious and if you can't understand that is the ENTIRE GOD DAMNED POINT OF IT(as ridiculous as it is that people feel the need for everyone to near their inner thoughts), then you can't get offended by it.
It doesn't matter if in the heat of the moment someone calls someone a black anything, it doesn't matter if Terry said something severely worse, it matters how LONG TERM he treats black people every day, nothing more, nothing less.
Terry is categorically NOT a racist(or hides it well), one racist remark(not that it was) a racist does not make.
People need to learn the difference between doing something impulsively and doing something with careful thought. If Terry was racist he'd be racist all the time, anyone can say ANYTHING in the moment without thought, hands up who here has ever said anything they regret and don't believe in the heat of the moment.... oh look, no one. You might blurt out the C word to a women in an argument, you might call a black person a n word, you might blurt out a fat person deserves to die, or that you want to kill someone, none of these are facts about who you are. Humans respond emotionally, that is who we are, holding people responsible for momentary lapses is insane.
physical, mental actions, we all have thoughts and do stupid things, in terms of football, Keane PLANNED to hurt someone, Shawcross made a simple mistake and never meant to hurt him and Henry in a split second with no time to think handballed, but given time to consider would never have normally done something. We have always judged peoples actions based on the time and ability to think over their actions before they do them.
Think about every single weird thought you've ever had, should you be judged for those, or for the "average" of all your actions? which is who you are?
Should he have said it, maybe, maybe not, I honestly don't care, its not racism. Racism is a terrible hurtful thing, and the less people mistake random **** for racism and the more of a big deal people make over the pointless **** the less real racism gets ignored.
