Xhaka Zulu. Boom Xhakalaka. The man made of Granit. The Xhaka Thread

Completely agree

Which is why i want us to dump the 4231

 

I'm not sure I completely agree with this. City generally have Silva or De Brune ahead of Fernandinho. That said the role to some degree has evolved into a second striker, Tottenham use Alli as an ACM or Second Striker, Liverpool use Lallana in that position. Mueller occasionally plays there for Bayern Munich. If you look at Ozil's goals and assists numbers this year it suggests that Wenger may have encouraged Ozil to play more as a second striker than as a traditional 10.

 

Just saw this. If this is true he's quickly becoming the least liked player on this club. No tolerance for this shite.

 

obviously do not know all the facts but this sounds like frustration at airline

 

Yeah and probably the frustration of getting red carded again. Dudes out here calling people "white bitch" like it's nothing. He's been posting bare selfies with the squad as well. Gonna have to wait for more information to come out.

 

No need to call someone's color, for sure. What I'm going to say next is flame-worthy, but white bitch on the racism scale is like a 1.15/10.

 

It's definitely no where near as bad as calling someone of color a racial slur that's for sure. When I first saw the article I thought it was a minority he was abusing. Why's a white dude calling a white lady a "white bitch" tho? The reports seem odd. He's denying and evidently a 3rd party is reporting it.

 

I disagree - racism is racism and it's not cool.

 

Im white and i dont give a fcuk

 

Does Xhaka self-identify as non-white? Fascinating if so.

 

Albanian (and presumably Muslim), so unclear.

 

It was unwarranted for sure, but, I honestly think we need new identifiers for what kind of racism/discrimination occurs. On the intent meter of ignorant speech vs premeditated discrimination and on the historical slur meter, this is not news. There are people writing essays about black genocide for god's sake. Again, I am not condoning the behavior, but this is small fry compared to anything that has ever come out of John Terry's mouth, and stuff that occurs 10 million times a day that is a million times worse.

Apologize. Do a bunch of racism appearances with FIFA. Watch your words.

 

It's really telling that there were ten posts about the word "white" until we got to the first post about "bitch"

 

Maybe the woman was a bitch and the man was born out of wedlock?

 

I'm honestly confused as to why this would be sexist - so my profuse apologies. I'm honestly trying to understand. Can someone explain it to me?

To me sexism would be if he treated her any differently than if she were a man, or if somehow her colleague standing next to her doing the same job made more money for no reason, or any other instance where he is being derogatory or had expectations towards her because she is female. This is based on my assumption that the derogatory term for mean people in the US is asshole" for males and "bitch" for females.

Does the word bitch hold sexist history in this particular connotation? Cause in my mind, if he called her an white hairy dick that'd be waaaaay worse.

(I'm sorry for this post, but I'll press send anyways because I've never written about anglo-saxon genitals before)

 

I don't get your evaluation. If he in fact did use those words then he likely doesn't identify as white and he used it in a derogatory manner. Therefore it's a racist statement, isn't it? Or is racism rated on a different scale depending on the race of the parties involved?

I find it abhorrent in all cases.

 

Saying it's 1/10 is racist in it's self

 

He said it's -1/10. I can see where he's coming from: there's little history of "white" being used as a slur.

 

So, labeling someone black is more offensive than labeling them white? Yeah, that's not racist at all..

 

Is Xhaka's english any good? Gotta learn the right cuss words/insults early on. It's critical to mastering any new language.

Honestly though, starting to lose patience with this clown. Coquelin was the liability. There isn't room for 2.

 

I hear you. I get frustrated with the "you can't be racist against white people" premise as well, but I see their point too. Calling someone a "white bitch" is a racial insult and could qualify as hate speech in England, but I wouldn't necessarily categorize it as racist, if we're assuming that racism requires some level of institutional and historical oppression.