Article: The Original Rugby Championship - Six Nations 2016
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Nepia" data-cid="567598" data-time="1459057520"><p>
So a slur is ok if it's recent and doesn't have genocide, slavery or something similar attached to it? Not sure I agree with that.<strong> Just tell him he's a shit prop who can't hold up his side </strong>rather than call him a gypsy - because in all honesty, why on earth would anyone call someone a gypsy (or Jew boy or black boy) if not intended as a slur (especially with boy attached to it).</p></blockquote>
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That would be propist. -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="antipodean" data-cid="567594" data-time="1459056867"><p>I'd suggest it's not. When travellers have a history that competes on a misery scale with millennia of genocide or intergenerational slavery it may be the same thing.</p></blockquote>
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I didn't say it was the same thing. I was raising more racially emotive terms to clarify the point that what he said was racist.<br><br>
As others have said you don't have to be a genocide/slavery victim to be racially abused. He should have just called him a fluffybunny.<br><br>
And in any event I think gypsies should rank fairly high on your 'misery scale'. They even tick your genocide box. Travellers aren't exactly living the high life either as far as I'm aware. -
<p>haha, so now apparently Marler was taunted with being Posh....really, do these guys know what a sledge is? As above, telling him he is a shit prop is better than calling a spade a spade!</p>
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<p>TR. You can't say spade.</p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="taniwharugby" data-cid="567938" data-time="1459196138"><p>haha, so now apparently Marler was taunted with being Posh....really, do these guys know what a sledge is? As above, telling him he is a shit prop is better than calling a spade a spade!<br>
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Strangely, you can absolutely be "discriminated" against for being posh. I'm no expect but as far I'm aware while you can claim for being discriminated on religious grounds, colour and all sort of different backgrounds, but posh doesn't come into it. You would have thought the upper class lawyers of yesteryear would have thought this through, but apparently not. You can call anyone a post twat with absolute impunity. -
<p>I have no problem with religious discrimination. Somebody needs to tell the idiots they are following a book that was someone's "best guess" at science 6 <em>thousand </em>years who and it's no longer relevant, so stop bloody fighting each other over it.</p>
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A costly comment in the end. Marler cops a 2 week ban and a £20k fine <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/35967459'>http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/35967459</a>
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Absolute farking madness.
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="antipodean" data-cid="566948" data-time="1458805281">
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<p><strong>Because people now get offended on behalf of others</strong> and how easily someone is offended is directly proportional to how stupid they are.</p>
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<p>Word to this post brother, those fluffybunnies are a sub species of keyboard warriors looking for some outlet to express their moral outrage and everyone knows how much I fucken hate keyboard warriors....</p> -
<p>Thought I'd post this on here. A BBC interview with Marler over the whole Gypsy Boy issue. Obviously there is a fair bit of PC in his replies but all in all he comes across quite well IMO. Of particular merit is his response in regard to provocation.</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03trdsj'>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03trdsj</a></p> -
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<p>Also I think he's made the right decision to duck out of the Oz tour. Time to get his head together, recharge the batteries and hopefully come back a wiser man next season.</p>
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<p>And hopefully a better scrummager!</p> -
Read about marler's decision on the guardian site. Was he pushed to take a break perhaps? <br>
Also, the paper pitched the exit as being for the friendly vs Wales and, oh, by the way, as an after though also the three test tour of strata. Seemed oddly written to me. I always hold that paper up as being a fine example of the queen's.
