[Official Site] REDS BACK RAINBOW LACES CAMPAIGN

heres one for you should all abuse of other players and fans stop, because they have feelings too and abuse of refs and linesmen,think the poster is saying he thinks political stuff like this should not be in football not he is homophobic

 

Yes.

But that's nowhere near as bad as abusing someone for something that's beyond their control, such as their sexual orientation or colour of their skin.

 

He's given his.opinion. if he chooses not ro go because of rainbow corner flags it will be him that misses out. Again, up to him.

 

Agreed Helen, but it's just rainbow flags, armbands and shoelaces for one game against Wycombe. What a thing to get upset about

I still maintain, it's a great idea.

 

EQUALITY IS NOT POLITICS!!!!!

Every ******* day!

 

Who are the snowflakes again? Is it those who stand up for social justice (insert another derogatory term) or the right wing Patriots?

 

hope you got 7 pairs of rainbow socks then fella , my neice is gay so no need to shout at me

 

What are you on about? In what way is showing support for the gay and trans community political? Calling the referee/linesman a **** for making a bad decision might hurt their feelings, but its because of something they've chosen to do, and can rectify the next game or whenever - hurling abuse at someone because they're gay or black i.e. not their choice is completely different. Please, for the love of God, tell me you understand that.

 

will you stop using the term snowflake as it was first used by S S troops to describe the remains of jewish concentration camp victims, that word offends me

 

i agree with rainbow laces day, just saying we should be more tolerent of abusing officials

 

This weeks - I’m not racist I go on holiday to India.

 

imagine you wouldnt be racist if you went on holiday to India but thank you for that enlightened stating the obvious remark,

 

the master of whit and repartee as spoken

 

At some point you just have to say that people are bigots and stop giving them the benefit of the doubt, unfortunately.

 

any way off to buy my niece a Christmas present , get her something nice and rainbowy just so she knows I am not Uncle Homophobe, BYE FRIENDS!!

 

I've got no issue with any of these symbolic gestures but the problem is they're just token gestures. The intention is good but honestly I don't think there's a single homophobe who will change their mind because of the colour of laces on football boots or a single racist who will suddenly stop being racist because of someone kneeling down.

They're great and they show solidarity and that can only be a good thing. Letting a gay or bisexual player know you support them is brilliant but on its own it's not enough. There needs to be much more work done normalising inclusivity because as nice as a pair of shoelaces are the only way you're going to change an homophobes mind is by showing them that some of their heroes are gay, that their cousin is gay, that the man down the street is gay etc and that it doesn't make any difference as to who they are.

How you do that I have absolutely no idea but it's definitely needed. Perhaps TV shows and adverts should be showing more gay couples but not even mentioning their sexuality, just a family with two mum's or two dad's etc. It always seems to be that if they're shown then it's focused on instead of being seen as normal.

 

Spot on.