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Idioten! Schandelijk!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/10/nazi-chants-at-dutch-soccer-game-expose-an-ugly-blot-on-the-beautiful-game/
By Michael E. Miller April 10 at 7:33 AM
As the beautiful game slowly played out on the field, however, things in the stands quickly got ugly.
Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas, sang a section of the home supporters towards the fans visiting from Amsterdam, a city historic in part for its Jewish community. My father was in the commandos, my mother was in the SS, together they burned Jews, because Jews burn the best!
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Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Especially in Eastern Europe...
jwirr
(39,215 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)The Ajax club has long been identified with Jews. Its largely Gentile supporters embrace that. Supporters of rival sides such as Utrecht, not so much.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026473080#post9
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)appalachiablue
(41,174 posts)FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)For all of our modern tools, which should help enlighten us, too many people are still mean spirited and divisive. And they aren't showing any signs of changing.
appalachiablue
(41,174 posts)anymore. Scientists need to be working on a prevention for evil and greed, fast!
kwassa
(23,340 posts)In many European countries, soccer stadiums have become theaters of hatred; platforms from which neo-Nazis and racists can peddle their ideology.
In an Italian soccer stadium, a game turns ugly when a white player calls his opponent "a black monkey."
Some of the fans are notorious. You can hear them boo or grunt when the other team's black players touch the ball. At one match, fans waved a banner that said their opponent's Jewish fans belonged in Auschwitz.
"Some of the fans have always had this reputation," said a Frenchman who plays in Italy.
But the problem is growing day by day.
There are Italian fans who racially taunt their own team's players. When one team brought in a black substitute, its fans chanted, "We don't want the Negro."
It's not just Italy. In many European countries, soccer stadiums have become theaters of hatred, platforms from which neo-Nazis and racists peddly their ideology.
When the French won the World Cup, one politician branded the team "unworthy" of France because so many of the players were non-Whites.
There was a shocking episode in Poland this year. Fans pelted a Nigerian player with bananas and then laughed at him. There have been incidents across Europe in countries that, like Italy, are unaccustomed to immigrants from other parts of the world.
"This kind of immigration and having multi-racial players is new to us," said an Italian league official.
After years of pretending racism wasn't a serious issue, the Italian league is finally making teams pay for their fans behavior. They get fined or forced to play home games on the road. But the police are still afraid or unwilling to go into the worst sections of the stadiums to make arrests.
"As these racist and anti-Semitic chants become tolerated at football grounds, it becomes more tolerated in the rest of society to say racist and anti-Semitic things," said Simon Kuper, author of Football Against the Enemy. "And that creates a nasty atmosphere."
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=130886
Behind the Aegis
(53,989 posts)I am not sure if it is a real increase or simply more people are now reporting, but it seems more of these stories are coming to light.