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This is true.

I don't care if an athlete shags trees or people but taking the coverage of the Winter Olympics from the BBC we were being told of athletes' sexual prteferences and journeys to being "out " for example before anything on their sporting prowess.

This is very BBC , I strongly feel time for the Beeb to stand on its own not rely on taxpayers to fund their agenda.

Millions wasted on Cliff Richard case.

Totally off original topic but please don"t remove as it's related to media etc

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The sports media bend over backward to promote all things minority and or female. What media have you been looking at?
Wilf got stick because he had a reputation for having a bad attitude in his younger days a he is also perfect pundit material, formally for 'not being the finished article' and now with everyone tyring to sell him to a 'bigger' club.
The media is its own reality. Pundits have to use airtime by talking bollocks and the paper and internet press make up nonsense all day long.

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

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If you are going to accuse someone of being an idiot then at least use correct spelling. Also, I used Aryan specifically (and in honesty, hyperbolically) due to the Mail's support of the Nazis in the 1930s (to be fair, they were not the only right-wing paper to support fascism). I simply stated my opinion, so I have no idea why you are getting so upset. The Sun and The Mail have had to issue a number of retractions in the last few years (I'm not going to list them, google can do so if you're bothered) where they have tried to paint a story based on race, so it doesn't seem a seismic leap to think perhaps their editorial position has leaked through to the sports pages.

You don't agree with me, that's fine. I stated my opinion and I'm not going to change it because you used capitals. When the right-wing media stop printing front page headlines as to why foreigners are to blame for everything I might start believing that they are not racist.

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You have to remember that Walker was given carte blanche by the ref to kick, throw and shove Wilf around wherever he liked, as was the case when he used to play for Spurs.

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Different game so different tactics plus we are in a much better shape than last winter.
Don’t get me wrong I love seeing Wilf attack and the scousers haven’t got a defender with Walkers pace. I’m really looking forward to the game.
Regards

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I don't think I was rude in my response, but again you persist. As I stated, I was using Aryan in a provocative way due to The Mail's links to fascism in the 1930s. The term Aryan was misappropriated due to links made between Sanskrit and the Germanic language. The Germanic languages include English. Now, I am not a historian, but I think you'll find (I am happy to be corrected) Aryan was misappropriated by white northern Europeans who saw themselves as a master race. Yes, Wikipedia does give you a history lesson on the origins of the word Aryan, but as I stated earlier I was using it in a different context.

We all support Palace (I presume?!) and occasionally we will all have different opinions. Again, I'm not sure why I have upset you so much, but please stop trying to infer I'm an idiot because of semantics. Most of us get things wrong from time to time, but in this instance I am pretty sure I haven't.

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Correct. Originally describing peoples as "Aryan" was not a statement about race at all but about geography, culture, religion and linguistic heritage. The Nazi-advocated idea that the Germans were part of an "Aryan" race system was therefore bollocks, and even if it were appropriate to use the term to describe race it would have included a whole lot of other races that Hitler would hardly have regarded as "pure".

The Germanic languages are descended from proto-Indo-Europen but not from Sanskrit. Their latest common ancestor was Proto-Indo-European. Sanskrit was in the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European descendancy, Germanic in one of the European branches. The two subtrees are distiguished by the correspondence of s in the former to c (hard "k" sound) in the languages further west, and the c moved to h in the first Germanic sound shift, as exemplified by the following words for "hundred":

Sanskrit satem
Latin centum
German Hundert

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