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hooverdam ([info]hooverdam) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2006-03-31 08:27:00
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Current mood:Fixin' for a fight
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Racism: It's Wank for Every Fan!
This past weekend, a popular soccer player decided to spend a day off by attending the game of two other teams. This is not an uncommon occurrence; players tend to be fans themselves, and are frequently buddies with players on other squads in the same league. As he left the stadium after the game, he and his girlfriend were surrounded and attacked, and the attacks pretty quickly started to involve racist comments, because as luck would have it, the player in question is Oguchi Onyewu (see user icon), a fellow from Maryland of Nigerian parentage. Meanwhile, stadium security couldn't be bothered to intervene.

Creepy stuff, eh? No question. But because this involves racist comments directed at an American in Europe, discussion of the incident quickly goes straight to hell, moving from "wow, that sucks" to "who are more racist, Americans or Europeans." I should point out that racist behavior among fans in Europe is a hot topic lately, because sadly there have been some all too recent examples of people who can't get over the fact that sports are played and enjoyed by every ethnic group, but it's also far from a weekly feature across the continent. At any rate, the discussion involves all the greatest hits you'd expect from an ill-moderated discussion about racism--semantics, Nazis, hate crimes, segregation, and good ol' US vs. Europe dickwaving.

Personally, I'm just having a hard time deciding which was dumber: a mob attack throwing racist epithets, or the decision to attack a player whose on-field reputation is "huge mean motherfucker."

edit: The thread's been closed, but not deleted, a new one's been posted, and all of you wondering who this guy is and where can you see more of him should take note that he'll be one of the defenders on the US squad in the World Cup in June.


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[info]aegflota
2006-03-31 04:18 pm UTC (link)
*cries*

I just came here straight after the OTF Racism Debate, and just argh! No more!

I hate football hooligans with a passion. Sigh.

And I hate most of the people in this wank.

Dammit, I just hate people.

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[info]hooverdam
2006-03-31 04:27 pm UTC (link)
I don't follow OTF, so I wasn't aware there was a racism wank going on there. I'll admit that as soon as that thread was posted yesterday afternoon, I knew exactly where it was going to go, and that direction was not "wow, that's terrible, he should press charges." I was not disappointed.

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[info]deoridhe
2006-03-31 04:18 pm UTC (link)
It's bad my second thought was, "Wow, he's cute," isn't it?

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[info]hooverdam
2006-03-31 04:19 pm UTC (link)


He is popular with the lady fans, yes.

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[info]smo
2006-03-31 04:22 pm UTC (link)
Hot DAMN. *drools*

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[info]wankismyfandom
2006-03-31 04:23 pm UTC (link)
*whistles*

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[info]ragnarok
2006-03-31 04:37 pm UTC (link)
Whoa. Mmmm....

Wait, from Maryland?? How come I never see ones like that around here? Dammit, why do we export all the hotties?!?


(Says she who went to Chicago to find her wife.)

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(no subject) - [info]hooverdam, 2006-03-31 04:43 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ragnarok, 2006-03-31 07:27 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]chibikaijuu, 2006-04-01 12:37 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]hooverdam, 2006-04-01 12:40 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-04-10 06:06 am UTC

[info]rotten_fish
2006-03-31 04:43 pm UTC (link)
Er... umm...

I'll be in my bunk.

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[info]wanktastic
2006-03-31 04:56 pm UTC (link)
*drools*

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[info]deoridhe
2006-03-31 04:58 pm UTC (link)
... I would love him on a plate with a side of WOW.

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(no subject) - [info]plazmah, 2006-03-31 06:17 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]hooverdam, 2006-04-01 03:22 pm UTC
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[info]senor_pinata
2006-03-31 04:31 pm UTC (link)
Is it bad that that was my first thought? I'd hit that.

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(no subject) - [info]smo, 2006-03-31 04:48 pm UTC
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[info]bangoskank
2006-03-31 06:50 pm UTC (link)
*raises hand* Erm, mine too.

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Hahahaha...you aren't alone!
[info]culsu
2006-03-31 08:30 pm UTC (link)
My *first* thought was, "Hey, that guy in the icon is HAWT!" Then I saw the other pic and keeled over.

Wait...was there any wank again?

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Re: Hahahaha...you aren't alone! - (Anonymous), 2006-04-01 10:48 pm UTC
Re: Hahahaha...you aren't alone! - (Anonymous), 2006-04-02 02:27 am UTC

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[info]hooverdam
2006-03-31 11:24 pm UTC (link)
Sounds Japanese, but no, his folks came from Nigeria. In Belgium he's called Goochi; US fans call him Gooch. I know more than one person who's purchased a new US jersey with GOOCH (not ONYEWU) on the back.

Oh, and the Spanish language announcers here love his name, pronouncing it as "on-yey-WOOOOOOOOOO."

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[info]chikane
2006-03-31 11:52 pm UTC (link)
There are hooligans in europe! These hooligans are morons! There are other morons there who probably were too scared to intervent!

This means all of europe must be racist! *nod* Proven.

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[info]tofuknight
2006-04-01 12:28 am UTC (link)
I'm a bit surprised there wasn't more wank about the person in the second thread who said the security people were doing the right thing by keeping out of it. Heck, _I_ want to go wank about that!

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[info]wrongly_amused
2006-04-01 01:06 am UTC (link)
:-( This whole wank and the incident that sparked it make me so sad.

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[info]khym_chanur
2006-04-01 01:12 am UTC (link)
So were these soccer hooligans who actually dislike the idea of [insert race here] playing soccer, or just assholes who chose the insults they thought would hurt/inflame the most?

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[info]hooverdam
2006-04-01 01:14 am UTC (link)
Most likely a little of both but leaning more towards the latter, kind of a "hey, while we're gonna take cheap shots at a guy, might as well take the cheapest shots of them all" sort of thing.

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[info]rachel_pi
2006-04-01 02:30 pm UTC (link)
he'll be one of the defenders on the US squad in the World Cup in June

Ok, now I'm really excited about going!

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[info]hooverdam
2006-04-01 03:17 pm UTC (link)
I land in Frankfurt on June 10th at 7:45 am. Even things like buying a new pair of shoes or a DS game for the flight gets me all excited all over again.

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(no subject) - [info]rachel_pi, 2006-04-01 05:41 pm UTC

[info]avari
2006-04-01 03:14 pm UTC (link)
*grumbles something unpolite about certain categories of football fans*

I remember the game in Spain where assholes were making monkey sounds and throwing bananas onto the field each time Samuel Eto'o had possession of the ball.

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(Anonymous)
2006-04-02 04:31 am UTC (link)
Wow - I have so much more insight into my heritage, as an evil anti-Semitic, racist, insensitive, anti-American, snobby, superior, European. It's fascinating to be enlightened by people who seem to think European History began with Hitler (don't we get any points for the Renaissance, or Shakespeare, or the Enlightenment, or, you kmow, ancient Greece and the birthplace of democracy)

Or, you know, this could all be bitterness on my part because the U.S. is in the World Cup and most of the population DON'T EVEN REALISE HOW IMPORTANT IT IS! (That, and I despise George Bush.)

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(Anonymous)
2006-04-03 08:10 am UTC (link)
Maybe its because most of the States figures that the sport is for skinny 5'10" white guys that can run a marathon and a half.

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