Tag: Prejudice

• It’s Coming Home

  

  So, Euro 2020 is underway, and the immediate focal point will doubtless be the knee-taking that will almost certainly overshadow our chance-taking. We will therefore be showing the red card to racism but getting fervently behind our respective teams, right? Now that raises an uncomfortable question regarding our own comfort with football patriotism. If racism…

  Max Frances

  Jun 13, 2021

  Society, Sport

  Black Lives Matter, England, European Championship, Euros, Football, Institutional Racism, Nationalism, Patriotism, Post-Fact, Post-Truth, Prejudice, Racism, Racist Chants, Take the Knee

• Teenage Kicks

  

  The cricketer Ollie Robinson has been yanked out of his England debut because of some boundary-breaching, turdist tweets that he had posted a decade ago. At worst it was throwaway bravado or attempts at humour through extreme shock value, and to be fair, I’ve heard worse from your average grim gaggle of giggling girlies in…

  Max Frances

  Jun 8, 2021

  Social Media, Society, Sport

  Activism, Black Lives Matter, Cricket, England, Inequality, Institutional Racism, Ollie Robinson, Prejudice, Racism, Sexism, Slacktivism, Social Justice Warriors, Social Media, Twitter, Virtue Signalling

• Collars and Cuffs

  

  Tragic news from Croydon where a Police Custody Sergeant has been shot dead in a secure custody suite. Nothing can detract from the awful reality that a man has lost his life. Most telling, though, is the gamut of reactions on social media. Pro-police commentators have trumpeted that the Sergeant was ‘murdered’. Others are beyond…

  Max Frances

  Sep 26, 2020

  Courts, Society

  Coronavirus, COVID-19, Death, Law, Police, Post-Fact, Post-Truth, Prejudice, Psychology, Social Media, Society, Violence