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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on May 13, 2016, 11:12:08 PM

Title: Tyson Fury - Jews are bad
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 13, 2016, 11:12:08 PM

http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/158189/boxing-champion-tyson-fury-antisemitic-rant

Title: Re: Tyson Fury - Jews are bad
Post by: Shaker on May 13, 2016, 11:16:49 PM

There's something about boxers and their opinions. Manny Pacquaio, for example.

I put it down to a job that involves regular brutal physical assault and repeated head injuries, personally. Just my guess.

Title: Re: Tyson Fury - Jews are bad
Post by: Rhiannon on May 13, 2016, 11:35:20 PM

Well for a lot of them it's a case of a life of boxing or a life of knuckle scraping, getting pissed and fighting. They aren't the brightest before the repeated blows to the head.

Title: Re: Tyson Fury - Jews are bad
Post by: Brownie on May 14, 2016, 06:39:11 AM

I agree with Rhiannon but still he should have known better, it was a very nasty rant.

Title: Re: Tyson Fury - Jews are bad
Post by: floo on May 14, 2016, 08:08:58 AM

There is never an excuse for racism!

Title: Re: Tyson Fury - Jews are bad
Post by: Brownie on May 14, 2016, 08:29:12 AM

Not strictly racism floo as Jews are not a 'race', they are a 'people'.  That was pointed out to me years ago by a Jewish scholar!  In any case there are Jews in most races.  Sorry to be picky.

What the Tyson bloke says is something he read or someone else read and told him, it's very old hat, conspiracy-theory stuff.  Horrible.

Title: Re: Tyson Fury - Jews are bad
Post by: ~TW~ on May 14, 2016, 09:30:34 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO654XRQ7FI

  ?????

 ~TW~

Title: Re: Tyson Fury - Jews are bad
Post by: The Accountant, OBE, KC on May 14, 2016, 10:55:20 AM

No surprises there that Tyson Fury would choose being offensive as a way of getting publicity - I guess that's the price for protecting freedom of speech.

Title: Re: Tyson Fury - Jews are bad
Post by: Shaker on May 14, 2016, 11:01:58 AM

I thought I remembered that this indvidual has form for this sort of thing: http://goo.gl/R3pAfP

Title: Re: Tyson Fury - Jews are bad
Post by: Brownie on May 14, 2016, 12:02:46 PM

I remember that too.  Nasty man but I daresay he'll be popular in far right circles.

Title: Re: Tyson Fury - Jews are bad
Post by: Bubbles on May 14, 2016, 12:50:15 PM

Never heard of him before, and hopefully won't in the future.

Yet another loopy celeb behaves badly to get attention, perhaps he hopes to get a slot on one of those programmes where spoilt brats can't cope.