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NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts) Mon Dec 17, 2012, 05:36 PM Dec 2012

Fans demand their local sports team be all white with no gays

I guess there are places where ignorance runs deeper than in the US...

Russian Premier League Zenit rebuffs fans' demands
December 17, 2012
MOSCOW -- Fans of two-time defending Russian champion Zenit St. Petersburg are calling for non-white and gay players to be excluded from the team.

Landscrona, the largest Zenit fan club, released a manifesto Monday demanding the club field an all-white, heterosexual team. It added that "dark-skinned players are all but forced down Zenit's throat now, which only brings out a negative reaction" and said gay players were "unworthy of our great city."

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/1268282/zenit-st.-petersburg-fans-demanding-all-white,-non-gay-team?cc=5901

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Fans demand their local sports team be all white with no gays (Original Post) NewJeffCT Dec 2012 OP

Idiots. So sad. Brickbat Dec 2012 #1

I was thinking that can't be in this country. Can you imagine if the NFL doc03 Dec 2012 #2

nice to know that batshit crazy isn't limited to this country niyad Dec 2012 #3

Okay . . . enlightenment Dec 2012 #4

There was a story on ESPN's E:60 magazine hifiguy Dec 2012 #5

as much as i/ we criticize the US, there are very few countries La Lioness Priyanka Dec 2012 #6

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)

1. Idiots. So sad.

Reply to NewJeffCT (Original post)

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 05:40 PM

Dec 2012

doc03

(35,502 posts)

2. I was thinking that can't be in this country. Can you imagine if the NFL

Reply to NewJeffCT (Original post)

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 05:40 PM

Dec 2012

or NBA had that rule?

niyad

(114,186 posts)

3. nice to know that batshit crazy isn't limited to this country

Reply to NewJeffCT (Original post)

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 05:40 PM

Dec 2012

enlightenment

(8,830 posts)

4. Okay . . .

Reply to NewJeffCT (Original post)

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 05:50 PM

Dec 2012

so ban them. They are ignorant hooligans and shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a playing ground.

Nasty shites.

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)

5. There was a story on ESPN's E:60 magazine

Reply to NewJeffCT (Original post)

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 05:55 PM

Dec 2012

show a few weeks back about some ultra-Zionist types in Israel mercilessly tormenting an Arab player on a soccer team there and demanding that he be kicked off the team.

It was really a sickening piece.

La Lioness Priyanka

(53,866 posts)

6. as much as i/ we criticize the US, there are very few countries

Reply to NewJeffCT (Original post)

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 05:56 PM

Dec 2012

that are as good as the US in terms of minority rights. this might seem sad, but is definitely true

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