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Football fan gets suspended sentence after mocking mascot Bradley Lowery (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 10 months ago by LudereHumanum@alien.top to c/main@soccer.forum

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This article is from November 17th, so a couple days old, but I found it worthwhile.

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[–] Dazzling-Lab2788@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

……televised next to the away fans. Like 9/11jokes in the NY Fire Department, AIDS/cancer joke to a dying victim and their family, Saville joke to one of his victims? Plus there is no ‘joke’ here, just an attempt to cause as much crass offence as possible. Context.

[–] TekkenSpurs@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Context is important of course. But if somebody who had some form of cancer went and saw Frankie Boyle Live at the Apollo, I highly doubt Frankie is getting arrested when the member of the audience finds it offensive.

Baffles me that people pick and choose what's offensive when it suits.

I've seen the same people crying about cancer jokes, sit and make 9/11 and rape jokes. It's either all allowed to be joked about or none of it is.