As some of you already know, I detest all forms of social media, particularly Twitter and Facebook. I honestly can't stand the way every fucker has to come wading in with an opinion on every fucking thing they see or read. Even if they have limited understanding or knowledge of the issue at hand, they still have to fucking "comment" and "have their say". Brainless fucking moronic idiots. People love to get offended these days, don't they?
As far as the confederate flag goes, I agree that our supporters should cease brandishing it. I go over and back to America numerous times a year. Some of my closest American fiends are black. I've been in the south so I'm well aware of the history behind the flag. That being said, I think a lot of the people getting their c*nt hairs in a twist are failing to put things in context.
Our supporters have been brandishing that flag since the 70's. Look at any footage of us playing in league, Munster or All Ireland finals during that time and you'll see plenty of confederate flags among our supporters. I don't recall anyone kicking up a fuss about it during the 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's, or any year during this decade until last Sunday. I don't ever remember a commentator mentioning it. I don't ever remember any Sunday game panelist mentioning it. I don't recall it ever been mentioned on radio, television, or in any of our printed forms of media
Yet all of a sudden, Cork supporters should be "condemned" because of what happened in Virginia? How come no one was condemning us when the KKK were still getting up to some heinous shit in the 70's and 80's and early 90's? How come no one thought to condemn it when Barack Obama was being subjected to racial slurs by the very people he was elected to represent? Why did everyone wait for Charlottesville to happen before deciding to get offended by us waving that flag?
As I say, I agree it should be phased out, but please spare me the crocodile teared high horse bollox. Put things in context FFS.
