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Originally Posted by molson
That's my point - they're ignorant. That doesn't mean they should be locked up or anything, but they're clueless.
And that ignorance might shed some light on the Eto'o situation. Maybe (some) Spaniards just don't know any better than to throw bananas at a black man? In a country where you have that, it's not surprising that you have a photo like that. Maybe none of that is a big deal to them, because they're just not senstive to such things. OK. All they're clueless/ignorant about is how that plays in the rest of the world.
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You keep trying to tie the 100% racist issue with Etoo with this picture, and are not related at all.
- The pic was never intended to offend. Call them ignorant, i prefer to call them innocent for not thinking it could be found offensive in other countries more sensitive about racism, like USA. BrianD explained it perfectly.
- Etoo issue was 100% racism, as he was called monkey and thrown a banana but it was done by some nazi radicals that hide between the more radical soccer fans (this happens sadly in every country where soccer is a major sport, Spain, UK, Italy). It's not that every Spanish throw bananas to all the black soccer players for fun as you seem to point. That incident was heavily criticised in the Spanish news too, and the police opened an investigation to try to find exactly who was, as that racism act is also prosecuted in Spain and you can go to jail for it.