- Mar 18, 2005
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It's certainly a complicated issue. There's a difference between telling a racist, anti-semitic, homophobic or sexist joke and being a racist, anti-semite, homophobe or sexist.I think as Spurs supporters we listen/hear people calling for us to stop chanting ‘Yids’ much more than when they speak out about the antisemitism
We are so ‘proud’ and wear the terms we chant as such a badge of honour that sometimes we forget the other side of the coin
It’s a very very complicated issue but at its root I guess it’s like using the N word. “We can use it but you can’t”
The chants and humour of English crowds can be great but drawing the lines is very difficult as we all have such varying views of what is and isn't acceptable.
We can only have discuss complicated subjects if we do so openly, honestly and without misframing. This is why that even though I'm not a Baddiel fan, I think it's very wrong of us to constantly pedal the lie that he only focuses on Spurs fan behaviour and not Chelsea.