Update from the house of Plague (Day 119 Year 2)

[elisi]

As always, Jonathan Pie nails it:

19 year old kids, with the weight of the nation on their shoulders, being abused by a bunch of fat, sweaty, racist yobs with the weight of twenty years of doner kebabs on their flabby man-tits.https://t.co/ypSKQBO8sp

— Jonathan Pie (@JonathanPieNews) July 13, 2021

The only upside of all this is that hopefully the issue is too big to be swept under the rug, the way it always is.

BBC: Marcus Rashford: Hundreds of messages left on mural after it was defaced.

Marcus Rashford: The wall of support and solidarity
Hundreds of hand-written messages of support and respect have been left on a mural of footballer Marcus Rashford. The heartfelt notes covered graffiti that was scrawled on the artwork in Withington, Manchester, following England's defeat by Italy in the Euro 2020 final. Read some of the messages here.

And the man himself:

pic.twitter.com/bs9lksGM4q

— Marcus Rashford MBE (@MarcusRashford) July 12, 2021

This wasn't meant to be a football post, and I don't know if it really is. It's just that it's highlighted all the racism. So hey, have an article from Teen Vogue which also touches on this topic:

Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee Monument Is Coming Down, Thanks to Me and Black Women Like Me
In this op-ed, activist Zyahna Bryant reacts to news that a statue of Robert E. Lee will be removed in Charlottesville, Virginia, a demand she first made by petition in 2016.

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Soundtrack for the TV show titled "Go, Go Squid!", a 2019 Chinese television series.

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Comments

[wolfy_writing]

19 year old kids, with the weight of the nation on their shoulders, being abused by a bunch of fat, sweaty, racist yobs with the weight of twenty years of doner kebabs on their flabby man-tits

I do wish he'd come up with better ways to express his disgust with these vicious racist pieces of shit than by focusing on how fat they are.

[elisi]

Alas fat phobia is still ripe, and people don't even think of it as harmful. :(

[a_phoenixdragon]

OMG, that first line from JP is frigging spot on accurate...

[elisi]

Yeah, he's very good at what he does!

[kazzy-cee.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it feels that we have come so far and then we take a huge step back again and nothing has changed doesn’t it (although as you say mostly it’s just hidden away *sigh*).

[elisi]

The only positive is that it's sort of tipped so far in the wrong direction that it can't just be swept under the rug... Although Boris banning racists from football games - does that mean he's banned himself?