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If homophobia is apart of the game, then it should also be protocol to have the bigot who said the slur and the coach who defended his bigoted player sacked.
I'm a first-gen Jamaican descendant and British queer man... I know what "batty boy" means. And it's not a compliment.
I'm a first-gen Jamaican descendant and British queer man... I know what "batty boy" means. And it's not a compliment.
Two major incidents in two weeks and a @SanDiegoLoyal player is on the receiving end of it. Last week it was racial abuse (former LA Galaxy II player called a Loyal player a 'nigger') and now an openly gay Loyal player has been called a "batty boy" by a @PHXRisingFC player.
Not only is the @PHXRisingFC coach @RickSchantz1 clearly defending the use of the slur ("It's apart of the game," he says)...
But @PHXRisingFC's *owner* in @BMcCarthy32 is went into @MyDickerson's DMs to suggest that the player who was abused is pulling an insidious "publicity stunt" for their own benefit. https://twitter.com/MyDickerson/status/1311529927888445444?s=19
As a Black bisexual man, I'd like to firstly tell @RickSchantz1 and @BMcCarthy32 that if that had been me in that incident, you'd have been carrying your player out in a fucking ambulance.
And don't turn pseudo-pacifist now that I said that. Homophobia is violence. Start there.
And don't turn pseudo-pacifist now that I said that. Homophobia is violence. Start there.
Almost always when either racist or homophobic incidents occur, the punitive measures for the offender have to be swift and brutal. Under no circumstances must any of that behaviour go unchecked or handled in a timid manner.
You must deal with it aggressively.
You must deal with it aggressively.
. @PHXRisingFC's coach @RickSchantz1 should know exactly what I'm talking about. His cretinous ass was talking a good game about how players should defend and support one another when incidents like the one he just defended go down. https://twitter.com/AlexButcher12/status/1311511363123019777?s=19
Landon Donovan should've kicked Rick Shantz square in the dick after that response.
I don't care.
If you want to dehumanise people, you can get the hands. Period. Point blank.
I don't care.
If you want to dehumanise people, you can get the hands. Period. Point blank.
If you want to defend people who dehumanise others and be complicit in the impunity the bigots revel in, you too can get the hands.
Homophobia isn't "name calling" so stop misrepresenting it as such. It's literally a matter of life or death for queer folks.
Homophobia isn't "name calling" so stop misrepresenting it as such. It's literally a matter of life or death for queer folks.
And if anyone in the @USLChampionship wants to step in and do what needs to be done — because *clearly* @PHXRisingFC are too spineless to ensure the right things are followed through on here — now would be the perfect time.
Get your fucking finger out and punish people. Now.
Get your fucking finger out and punish people. Now.
