A fine will do and a slap on the wrist. Stupid thing to do.
People most definitely shouldn't be defending him though. That's weird.
I find it offensive when gay people refer to hetrosexuals as straight. It feels like im being tagged with a name i dont want.
Who do i complain to ?
Nick
Internal investigation?
Internal investigation?
Ffs seriously?
The club are most likely saying this for show. Otherwise they'll be accused of being homophobic. They'll tell Stokes to be careful in future and move on.Internal investigation?
Ffs seriously?
I find it offensive when gay people refer to hetrosexuals as straight. It feels like im being tagged with a name i dont want.
Who do i complain to ?
Cisgender is a term for someone who has a gender identity that aligns with what they were assigned at birth. The term was created for referring to "non-transgender" people without alienating transgender people.
http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/...cer-players-bunch-faggots-twitter/#gs.=aseZYQ
Apparently he said it because of the ccfc leicester rivalry, he was talking about spurs.
So you have never said anything like, 'that's gay' or 'you're a faggot'?
What he did was silly, but it's definitely nothing big.
Not on social media when I'm in a very privileged position, no.
He was stupid. We move on. No massive issue, just don't think people should be sticking up for him. What's there to stick up for?
You might have offended him by sticking up for him!I'll stick up for him. He clearly didn't mean it in an offensive way.
I hope you can see the irony of saying people shouldn't seperate themselves into their own groups whilst being on a Coventry City forum.
And also joining in with the outrage yourself by being outraged about the outrage.
Totally correct
If anyone doesn't know , stokes is of Irish travelling decent, basically Gypsy , not sure if he's caravan type like Freddy but Gypsy all the same.
I'm 100%sure he didn't know it was a uk gay slur , and anyone that is jumping on his back need educating in international linguisticsj
totally untrue !!!!!
I know Chris,s family very well and a nicer family would be very hard to find!!
Totally correct
If anyone doesn't know , stokes is of Irish travelling decent, basically Gypsy , not sure if he's caravan type like Freddy but Gypsy all the same.
I'm 100%sure he didn't know it was a uk gay slur , and anyone that is jumping on his back need educating in international linguisticsj
totally untrue !!!!!
I know Chris,s family very well and a nicer family would be very hard to find!!
I'm glad you didn't post that on twitter...
You never called someone a name before?The irony that Nick and others in this thread are missing is that gays and other minorities probably wouldn't need to organize themselves into minority groups if ignorant people like Chris Stokes just took the time to learn why certain words can be offensive to them. If people focused more energy on learning about that, rather than having a go at minorities for standing up for themselves, then these groups that are apparently so horrifying to some people would quickly have no reason to exist.
Learning to be polite about it isn't difficult, as Stokes will probably realize quite quickly. That's the part that shouldn't be a big deal - it'll make him a smarter, better person.
Of course he was wrong to say it, but he wasn't really preaching against gay people at all was he?The irony that Nick and others in this thread are missing is that gays and other minorities probably wouldn't need to organize themselves into minority groups if ignorant people like Chris Stokes just took the time to learn why certain words can be offensive to them. If people focused more energy on learning about that, rather than having a go at minorities for standing up for themselves, then these groups that are apparently so horrifying to some people would quickly have no reason to exist.
Learning to be polite about it isn't difficult, as Stokes will probably realize quite quickly. That's the part that shouldn't be a big deal - it'll make him a smarter, better person.
Tall white people get everything, there's not much to ask for. The chances of my NBA career taking off however are getting slim.
I can't remember this Gary Deegan thing that keeps getting referenced at all. People on Twitter being stupid happens so often it doesn't stick in the memory too long.
Ed Balls
The irony that Nick and others in this thread are missing is that gays and other minorities probably wouldn't need to organize themselves into minority groups if ignorant people like Chris Stokes just took the time to learn why certain words can be offensive to them.
Of course he was wrong to say it, but he wasn't really preaching against gay people at all was he?
If he was saying things like being gay is wrong etc etc then I'd totally get it.
I'm white and real, does that mean I should make my own minority group because somebody says something about tall white people and then ask why I don't get treated the same? Or do i look at the context of things?
Of course there are real homophobes, racists etc but id say the problem is with them rather than the gay person. Surely they should be in a minority group?
Not that straightforward though is it. Stokes used a word that has more than one meaning, people have made the assumption he meant it in a homophobic way. Same as the BBC suddenly decided it was homophobic in Fairytale of New York and banned it. Its not even a term commonly used in this country as an insult, its American and they often shorten it to fag so is that word now banned as slang for cigarette?
What about the n word? Seemingly its fine for it to be in 101 rap songs but if anyone was to shout it at a player at the Ricoh there would, rightly, be outrage.
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