Tim wrote:
Liverpool are just taking the piss here. I dont give a shit what they do in Uruguay, in this country you cant call a black person (or anyone) a "negrito". If you do there will be repercussions. End of story.
Nonsense.
Just because the Anglo-Saxons have had all this traumatic experiences with the term it doesn't mean that when someone from a different culture uses the term in a friendly way it should be classed as 'racism'.
In Latin America we refer to black people as 'negros' and they refer to white people as 'blancos', 'catires', or many other terms. It's normal for some black person in a bakery to call me over by using my skin colour for example, and we don't make a big deal out of it. It's very rare to see racism in the way you see it in England, Germany, France, or the US. One of my best black friends asks to be known as 'el negro' among our group of friends, and we affectionately call him that.
It's also normal to call people 'flaco' (thin one) or 'gordo' (fat one) when calling strangers on the street. No one takes offense to it, as there's none intended.
So we have someone who comes from a culture where people are comfortable with how they look and who they are, who is doing just what he is used to doing, and he gets an 8 match ban and gets branded a racist because people here are horrible cunts who use those terms in a negative way?
Seriously, fuck that. Tell him to not do it again, explain to him why it can be offensive, but don't ban him and call him racist when he clearly CLEARLY isn't.
I was used to kissing hello people when I moved to the English-speaking world. Girls I proceeded to kiss-hello took it as sexual harassment almost. I eventually stopped doing it when I noticed it wasn't culturally acceptable, but by your logic I should have been arrested.
