Let’s be honest, a lot of the people having a pop at the Burnley fans with the banner really don’t give a toss about people in Burnley.

Ignored and maligned communities can be justified in their resentment. And when every other faction is pushing race as the main divider to the fore, why are people surprised this sort of thing happens in white communities?

If ‘whiteness’ is as toxic and dangerous as the wokelings say it is, then othering and attacking white communities isn’t exactly a smart move of what you want is empathy and progress.

The ‘Black Lives Matter’ slogan is often countered with ‘all lives matter’, which completely misses the point of what it means. But reacting to those Burnley fans with anger only proves their point; that their lives don’t matter to most people who preach profressivism.

Also, fuck my phone and its slapdash efforts at autocorrecting.

Ask yourself this: If you’re calling the Burnley fans racist, do you disagree with the statement ‘white lives matter’? I would hope you could recognise that the struggles of white and black communities in the UK can both matter, and coexist. Solving one need not mean ignoring...

...the other. Perhaps the Burnley fans were motivated by racism. Perhaps not. But if you just decide to write this off as racism without hearing why they feel that way, are you any better than generations of white people who wrote off the lot of others in life as just deserts?