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You'll probably find that a large proportion of those jumping on him for the tweet are those that called their school mate by racist names because (s)he had slightly more olive skin.
Happened to my mate at school, btw. White British parents, born in England, slightly olive skin... cue "racism" from the kids at school who were currently being dragged up.
Neanderthal little cunts.
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Any of you ladies and chaps following the twitter pile on over Gary Lineker mentioning that he was bullied for having "darkish skin"?
I'm trying to get my head around the public response to it. I've got pretty vivid memories of receiving a fair amount of racist abuse for having "darkish skin" as an english kid in the 90s. I won't repeat the kind of things that were said to me but I'm trying to understand why everybody is mocking him for somehow claiming that he's a victim of racism when that isn't what he said afaik.
In my own experience, people used racist slurs towards me despite me not being of those races. Isn't that the point he was trying to make? For me its just a reflection on how normalised and widespread some racist terms were back then.