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Olympic triple jumper sent home after making racist tweet

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  • #62
    Overflow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,266 ✭✭✭Overflow


    Fizman wrote: »
    Just clicked the link. Anyone else wishing the camera panned back a little before snapping?

    Well I'm sure he did, it just didn't make it to print. :p

    http://domaingang.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/voula-papachristou-greece.jpg

    :D:D


  • #63
    RumDrinker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 75 ✭✭RumDrinker


    Lollers wrote: »
    She tweeted "With so many Africans in Greece... At least the West Nile Mosquitos will eat some homemade food!!!"
    And why and where exactly was it racist? It was a more or less funny joke, that's it.

    In my opinion it was no more racist than Sol Campbell's statement regarding the Euro 2012:

    http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/you-could-come-back-in-a-coffin--chilling-race-warning-from-former-england-defender-sol-campbell-ahead-of-euro-2012-7792838.html

    People get waay too paranoid these days, no other real problems to deal with, huh?


  • #64
    pcardin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,218 ✭✭✭pcardin


    RaRaRasputin wrote: »
    Comments like hers will just fuel that hatred and might cause another wave of violence.
    Throwing her out of Olympics will fuel that even more :confused:


  • #65
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Fizman wrote: »
    Just clicked the link. Anyone else wishing the camera panned back a little before snapping?

    Well I'm sure he did, it just didn't make it to print. :p

    You mean like this?


  • #66
    Father Damo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    Its not the Greeks, its the blacks shes after!


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  • #67
    IrishAm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭IrishAm


    RaRaRasputin wrote: »
    I think it's more because Greece has recently had a steep rise of attack on immigrants (lots of people flee from Somalia and Greece is one of the closest stops).

    Greece is awash with illegals due to their geographical location. Visit Athens and you could walk miles without seeing a native.

    It makes Ireland, with our large(17%) foreign born population, look relatively homogeneous.


  • #68
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    IrishAm wrote: »
    Greece is awash with illegals due to their geographical location. Visit Athens and you could walk miles without seeing a native.

    It makes Ireland, with our large(17%) foreign born population, look relatively homogeneous.

    Any chance you have a source for this?


  • #69
    IrishAm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭IrishAm


    Hande hoche! wrote: »
    Any chance you have a source for this?
    Born abroad
    The number of Irish residents who were born outside Ireland continues to increase and stood at 766,770 in 2011 an increase of 25 per cent on 2006, and accounting for 17 per cent of the population.

    http://www.cso.ie/en/newsandevents/pressreleases/2012pressreleases/pressreleasethisisireland-highlightsfromcensus2011part1/


  • #70
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Thanks. Interesting reading.


  • #71
    old_aussie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,409 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    Any other time her comments would have just been water off a ducks back.


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  • #72
    old_aussie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,409 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    MrJoeSoap wrote: »
    Sports story, which should really go in the Athletics forum. But once there's a bit of racism involved, AH is apparently the spot for it!

    So tweeting is now a sport, probably be an event in the next olympics. lol


  • #73
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Remember that time that Stephen Roche said that all Andorrans had AIDS and we should ship them off to work camps?

    You don't hear about that much any more, do you?


  • #74
    SocSocPol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭SocSocPol


    Hande hoche! wrote: »
    Any chance you have a source for this?
    Please dont start him off again!:D


  • #75
    IrishAm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭IrishAm


    Some of the papers in the UK are claiming this is the end of her career. lol

    Its only the start, ya fools. The Golden Dawn should offer her a position a position paying her a couple of 100 large. Watch them shoot up in the polls. Got seven per cent in the last elections.


  • #76
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    The Golden Dawn is a fairly catchy name.


  • #77
    SocSocPol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭SocSocPol


    IrishAm wrote: »
    Some of the papers in the UK are claiming this is the end of her career. lol

    Its only the start, ya fools. The Golden Dawn should offer her a position a position paying her a couple of 100 large. Watch them shoot up in the polls. Got seven per cent in the last elections.
    So even though you dont think she was racist you think a Neo-Nazi Party should offer her a job and that she should accept it. :confused:


  • #78
    IrishAm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭IrishAm


    SocSocPol wrote: »
    So even though you dont think she was racist you think a Neo-Nazi Party should offer her a job and that she should accept it. :confused:

    The Nazis ceased to exist in 1945. Please, keep up. But nice attempt at a smear. Par for the course.

    She has re-tweeted their press releases regarding illegal immigration. So she obviously supports some of their ideas.


  • #79
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,589 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    RaRaRasputin wrote: »
    I think it's more because Greece has recently had a steep rise of attack on immigrants (lots of people flee from Somalia and Greece is one of the closest stops), because a bunch of nationalist idiots think it's handy to blame the country's bankruptcy on the immigrants. Comments like hers will just fuel that hatred and might cause another wave of violence.
    The comment wasn't racist.

    In this case the media have more to answer for with regard to stoking the fire.


    Unless it can be show that she was previously well known for being a racist she might be able to sue for damages to reputation.


  • #80
    SocSocPol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭SocSocPol


    IrishAm wrote: »
    The Nazis ceased to exist in 1945. Please, keep up. But nice attempt at a smear. Par for the course.

    She has re-tweeted their press releases regarding illegal immigration. So she obviously supports some of their ideas.
    I said Neo-Nazi and would refer you to:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dawn_(Greece)

    In a 1987 article of the Golden Dawn magazine, its editor and Party Founder Michaloliakos wrote an article with title "Hitler for 1000 years" where he supports Nazism and white supremacy.[91] Specifically he wrote "We are the faithful soldiers of the National Socialist idea and nothing else" and "[...] WE EXIST, and continue the battle, the battle for the final victory of our race".[91] He ends the article by writing "1987, 42 years later, with our thought and soul given to the last great battle, with our thought and soul given to the black and red banners, with our thought and soul given to the memory of our great Leader, we raise our right hand up, we salute the Sun and with the courage, that is compelled by our military honor and our National Socialist duty we shout full of passion, faith to the future and our visions: HEIL HITLER!".[91] Furthermore he capitalizes the pronouns referring to Hitler
    On May 17, 2012 during the Greek Parliament Swearing-In ceremony, Golden Dawn's MP Eleni Zaroulia was wearing an iron cross ring, a symbol which since World War II has been associated with nazism. [96]
    On July 23, 2012, Artemis Matthaiopoulos was sworn an MP with Golden Dawn for the town of Serres. The website left.gr (associated with SYRIZA), reported[97] that Matthaiopoulos was the frontman of the Nazi punk band "Pogrom" and pointed to the band's song "Auschwitz"[98] with exteme antisemitic lyrics such as “**** Anne Frank”, “**** the tribe of Abraham”, “piss on the Wailing Wall” and “Juden raus”.

    I await your apology with eager anticipation.


  • #81
    kingtiger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭kingtiger


    ffs its was a joke, she is hardly Hitler

    please stop the planet I want to get off


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  • #82
    IrishAm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭IrishAm


    SocSocPol wrote: »
    I await your apology with eager anticipation.

    For what?


  • #83
    Anyone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Anyone


    Voula Papachristou has been allowed back into the Olympics after agreeing to change her racist Tweet to "With so many Africans in Greece, at least the West Nile mosquitoes will eat McDonalds and drink Coca Cola. Sent from my Samsung Galaxy."


  • #84
    Einhard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,919 ✭✭✭Einhard


    A Greek athlete has been sent home from the Olympic Games for making an allegedly racist joke. Responding to reports that the mosquito-borne West Nile virus was becoming increasingly prevalent in Greece, she tweeted that, with so many Africans living in Greece, the mosquitoes would be able to eat some home food for a change.

    Now, it's not a particularly funny joke, but is it racist? I really don't think so. I don't see any hatred for Africans, or anyone else for that matter, expressed in that joke. One could argue that it's in poor taste, but that it expresses contempt for an entire race? How exactly?

    It's the same with the John Terry/Anto Ferdinand incident. I hadn't been paying much attention to the whole thing, and had assumed that Terry had actually racially abused Ferdiand, called him a niggar or some such thing. That is obviously racist terminology, and Terry would have deserved sanction. Reading up on it a little, I discovered that he had actually referred to Ferdinand as a "black ba*tard". I fail to see how that could be construed as racist. Ferdinand is black. How the hell can it be considered a xenophobic statement? It's a statement of fact. Most people, when they swear, include some form of adjerctive or other descriptive word- ye fat this, ye fuppin this etc.

    I'm not denying that racism is a scourge. It is. But the fact that it is such a powerful force is the very reason why we shouldn't be throwing around such accusations as if they were confetti. It seems now that the mere act of making reference to someone's skin colour is racist. Which is not only ridiculous, but dangerous. If people are accused of racism when it's patently obvious that they are not, then the word loses its power. And when true racists come along, people are less vigilant because they've been hoodwinked so many times before.

    So, do we need to cop on a bit, and stop destorying people's lives, and doing people of colour a disservice, by reacting so hyperbolically every time race is mentioned?

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178836/London-2012-Olympics-Greek-athlete-Voula-Papachristou-banned-racist-joke-Twitter.html?ICO=most_read_module Daily Mail link...don't panic people, a quick peek wouldn't permanently damage your IQ. Also, pictures inside of Greek athlete hottie...I mean despicable racist!

    EDIT: For the easily confused: no boys called racist in the making of this thread/story. :cool:


  • #85
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Old news.


  • #86
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    Einhard wrote: »
    I discovered that he had actually referred to Ferdinand as a "black ba*tard". I fail to see how that could be construed as racist. Ferdinand is black. How the hell can it be considered a xenophobic statement? It's a statement of fact.

    There's a difference between calling someone a "f*cking c*nt" and calling them a "f*cking black c*nt".


  • #87
    kojack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 292 ✭✭kojack


    I wouldn't mind her triple jumping onto me like in the second photo


  • #88
    Adyx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭Adyx


    That's not the only thing she tweeted though. She has repeatedly expressed her support for the Golden Dawn group and that guy who assaulted the woman on TV in particular. I do think she was made an example of, but at the same time I wouldn't lose any sleep over it had I made the the decision.

    I do agree that racism is a term thrown around far too much these days especially by people who have no idea what racism means. You also don't have to look far to see instances of this phenomenon.


  • #89
    07734
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭07734


    Stop bringing common sense into it.


  • #90
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Yes...yesterdays news I'm afraid OP .


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  • #91
    Einhard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,919 ✭✭✭Einhard


    foxyboxer wrote: »
    There's a difference between calling someone a "f*cking c*nt" and calling them a "f*cking black c*nt".

    There is? Why?


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