Mr Conor Goldson is a black man who is employed by a football club with a racist element within their supporter base.
It isn’t his fault that the Ibrox klanbase has that worldview.
Nor should he have been aware of it when he agreed to work for the basket of assets.
Indeed, had his representatives attempted some due diligence on Conor’s prospective employers then they would have been studiously misinformed by the local media.
The chaps at the sports desks are in the pro-Ibrox spin business.
Consequently, they look away from t when the klan are doing their racist performance art.
If that is not possible then it is necessary to minimise that which is undeniable.
The other part of the equation is that much of this is above their intellectual pay grade.
Quite frankly, most of the Stenography Corps lack the cognitive bandwidth to process the simple proposition that racism is socially constructed.
Consequently, the significance of Billy Fullerton’s street gang being lauded in song rather escapes them.
The sad fact is that the Ibrox matchday experience has been organised around a variant of racism for over a century.
Anti-Irish racism migrated from the dead club in 2012 to the new iteration.
The Black Lives Matter rebellion has already created trouble for the Sevco High Command.
Mr Richard McDonald, one of the faces in the Everyone Anyone PR campaign, attended a BLM rally in Glasgow and stated that “Rangers as an institution needs to change”.
You can read about it here.
There was a need for PR firefighting after that.
Of course, what was being fought back was the truth.
Mr Goldson made his views clear on Instagram apropos taking a knee in France.
However, he appears to have been somewhat taken aback by the reaction of the Ibrox klanbase.
I’m afraid that “let’s try again” won’t cut it Conor.
The club that employs you is supported by a subculture which is marinated in a local variant of ethnic supremacism.
Perhaps Mr Goldson should get together with Mr McDonald and discuss the true nature of the Ibrox klanbase.
It would be a useful conversation.
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I believe racism etc. boils down to two factors power and fear. The former gives control, with all the benefits that brings, and the latter fuels the need to hold onto to it.
I would say there is a difference between being Irish and being Catholic but for so long they were intertwined and the result of that has had its own grotesque moments. For that reason, I understand why people in the North find Catholicism abhorrent and see themselves in danger of being a powerless minority should there be a united Ireland. I think the way forward is complete disestablishment on all fronts and an understanding of what we all have in common as human beings. At the Siege of Droghada the Irish and the Royalists were on the same side against the the war criminal Cromwell and, while not in favour of the practice in principal, his is one statue I would not object to see hit the deck.
There are always interested parties who profit from separating peoples and resent the majority benefiting from prosperity and whose main driving force is greed.
I admit I know very little of why The Celtic Tiger experiment failed but I would guess it was greed (once houses in Dublin matching if not surpassing the cost of those in London) and I had held great hope for it as a means of the North perhaps changing their jaundiced view of the South and maybe initiating an incentive for rapproachement.
The North were supplanters and it is ever thus, the same social standing of their protagonists, but Catholicism was used as a wooden club by which to beat them with and Orangism vice versa.
Someone is keeping us all at each others throat and why bitter little “institutions” like Sevco are protected by the media, educated or not.
As far as I am concerned, journalists like Graham Spiers damn themselves the minute they use the title “Rangers” and invalidate any point they were trying to make, perpetuating a myth and a weapon for division.
It’s interesting Phil, that the indisputable fact of the existence of racism within certain elements of Scotish society is now acknowledged by most reasonable Scottish citizens.
Some may argue as to it’s definition but for me, it is clearly a symptom of lack of self confidence and fear of change, amongst other things.
It is equally clear that things are changing quickly there and that traditional attitudes to the Irish and their descendents, by some, are no longer acceptable to most people there any more than those attitudes would be acceptable in relation to any other nation, colour, creed or religion.
For me I must say, to see the outdated, fascist groupthink fade into the stories of the past is a very welcome thing.
It is a good thing for our parents to know that their grandchildren will have an experience different to their own
And yet Goldson himself quite happily rolls his red-topped stockings up over his knees. Double standards come to mind.
If he had any principles, he, and the rest of the so-called catholics in his squad, would walk off the park when the fenian blood gets mentioned during their revelling.
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/scotland/law-and-courts/discrimination/protected-characteristics/race-discrimination/
Race discrimination
The Equality Act 2010 says you mustn’t be discriminated against because of your race. Discrimination which is against the Equality Act is unlawful. If you’ve experienced unlawful discrimination, you may be able to do something about it.
What’s meant by race?
If you want to make a discrimination claim, you need to find out if you’re someone who mustn’t be discriminated against under the Equality Act 2010.
The Equality Act says it’s only unlawful discrimination if you’re treated unfairly because of certain reasons. These reasons are called protected characteristics. Race is one of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act.
Race discrimination is when you’re treated unfairly because of one of the following things:
colour
nationality
ethnic origin
national origin.
You can be discriminated against because you belong to a certain racial group. People who share the same colour, nationality or ethnic or national origins are part of the same racial group.
Guy I know has spent his entire professional working life legislating against racism. He tires of our use of language and its ambiguities. So hear his words carefully Luke G. There is only one race – its called the human race. I write this with due respect to what Phil has highlighted as the UN definition. HH
Bob (original) I must protest the inference re those who inhabit Ibrox. I was born into a Presbyterian family, in a SW Scotland village. There was a fair part of the populace were of the LOL knuckle-dragged klan.
My father loved football He took me to matches in Kilmarnock, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee. I saw Liverpool v Borussia Dortmund at Hampden, was there when Jock Stein won his first Scottish Cup as Celtic’s manager.
My old man was a Kirk elder, like his father and grandfather before him. He detested the sectarian pish that flowed down the village gutters. One time he took me aside and pointed out to me something that has remained with me. Despite all their noise and vile chants and clamour, not one of those knuckle draggers is or was, ever seen attending our Kirk on the Sabbath.
The scum that line the terracings of Ibrox bring shame on the Protestant faith, on Scotland and on humanity. I face them across the terracing. I hear their hate directed at me, they imagine me a ‘Kafflik’. On turn I loathe them. They imagine themselves Protestant. Amen. HH
Yes but they (Rangers supporters) and you are the same race as the celtic supporting Irish diaspora. Religion might give you a different culture, or the team you support, but it doesn’t change your race.
Choosing Church and not Rangers FC didn’t change your race.
The Irish were all White British up until 1922 or whatever the date. Independence didn’t suddenly change their race.
“Luke” you either do not fully understand the generally accepted definition of racism or you are a troll.
Read some books.
Lewis, you inferred: I was trying to imply that in some cases, a player’s club choice can seem rather short-sighted.
But, agreed: you make perfectly valid points about your own experiences.
I just don’t understand why someone would choose to play for any club where there is a high(er) risk that they could become a target – from their own support – based on their ethnicity and/or religion.
There is no such thing as anti Irish racism.
That is merely a Philmacgiollabhain construct. A fiction.
No country in the world legally recognizes the Irish as a race. Including the Govt of Ireland.
The USA recognizes five races legally in its various Govt Depts. Irish isn’t one of them.
The Irish are Caucasians.
The Irish are not even an ethnicity unique within the Caucasian Race such as Latino or Hispanic.
You fail, perhaps deliberately, to understand that racism by definition is not just about race but also includes ethnicity; a universally accepted meaning of the term.
Therefore it is entirely correct to state the actuality of anti Irish discrimination as valid as that against black people, Asians, Chinese, Pakistanis, or any other ethnic group.
In seeking to deny this,you reveal yourself as a racist and I suspect a Fascist along the same lives as the “all lives matter” bigots.
Indeed so.
The UEFA definition of racism is taken from the UN Convention on human rights.
It encapsulates ethnicity, heritage, nationality and national origin.
Abuse detected at Irish people (incl 2GI) because they are Irish is, by that definition, racist.
I rather suspect that you have accurately ascertained the world view of “Luke G”.
No point arguing with thick people.
Racism is ‘prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized’.
The Famine Song told those of Irish descent in Scotland that they could now ‘go home’. This is pretty clear evidence that the Irish Catholic population are identified as a unique group and could therefore be subjected to racism.
They conveniently don’t mention that the racist abuse came from his own supporters.
They’ll be hoping that no one noticed that, Joe Bhoy but hang fire for a while until they start blaming the Celtic support. HH
If the story that Morelos has been racially abused on social media has been invented to distract attention away from Sevco’s fans’ reaction to the players’ support of BLM in France then it has horribly backfired as the only conclusion we can come to is that Morelos was abused by their own fans.
It will never change boys n thanks phil for doin it for us . Highlighting what they won’t HH 👌
Racism is learned behaviour, therefore the only way to overcome it is education. Confirmation bias and peer pressure make it very difficult, if not impossible for those trapped in a racist culture to step outside its boundaries and re-model their attitudes. Unless and until people realise the inescapable truth that we are all one human family, nothing is likely to change that group prejudice.
How can you educate a horde who for generations don’t want to learn?
No, no Phil. You’ve got it all wrong. You see, as the BBC kindly informs us, Alfredo has again been the victim of racist abuse on Instagram. They are the victims of racism, not the perpetrators. No story to be had in the response to their own players taking a knee at all.
Deflect, deflect, smokescreen.
Any player of colour not being the victim of racist abuse on anti-social media platforms would be more surprising. It brings out the worst in people and the best at times. I feel I have to rinse my eyes in bleach any time I wander onto twitter. I feel we get a better level of input here and you must filter out the majority of the trolls.
JS
I’ve always wondered with RFC and then TRFC: why would any non-white or non-Protestant choose to work at Ibrox – in any capacity?
Presumably it’s for money.
Joining the club – and then remaining at the club – suggests that they don’t have an issue with the club and fanbase values.
They take the money, but they’ve sold their self-respect.
Their choice.
Subsequently, they deserve zero sympathy when their choice of club routinely embarrasses / humiliates them.
With an upsurge of reports of Huns racism and bigotry, although not in the MSM (funny dat), time for some more deflection:
“Police investigate racial abuse of Rangers’ Morelos”
bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53463364
It’s almost as if someone at the national broadcaster is being told to release whataboutery stories to counter any bad new impacting on Sevco.
Internet full of racism from sevco fans against their own player’s stance. Release a story on Morelos racist abuse. Morelos gets sent off and makes throat cutting gesture. Release story on Morelos racist abuse and conveniently blame it on an underage kid who can’t be named. Did Jabba leave his contacts address book when he left?
But then this is in the realms of conspiracy theory that could only be true if the broadcaster had a history of pro sevco propaganda.
JS