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LFC fighting discrimination. True or False ?

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RedNinja said:
The people at the top who dream up these schemes, need to do their research first. .

Egg on face..

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/aug/01/liverpool-warrior-sports-man-up
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Liverpool's initiative for the most part has drawn praise. This sort of nit-picking seems to speak to small minds trying to fault find, petty points scoring. I'm sure inconsistencies will be ironed out over time, we don't seem to be big enough to allow new policies to bed in. Shame really, it'll put off others from worthy effort.

Are newspapers really suggesting all things should be perfect from the 'get-go'? There's a certain level of irony the Guardian should be on that bandwagon.
 
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/aug/01/liverpool-warrior-sports-man-up
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Liverpool's kit supplier, Warrior Sports, has fallen foul of the club's new guidelines on unacceptable language by telling customers to "man up" on its website.

"Man up" is one of several phrases the Anfield club deems unacceptable on a list issued to members of staff as part of a wider education programme aimed at combating discrimination. Others in the section on gender include "queen", "princess", "play like a girl" and "don't be a woman".

The club's official sportswear supplier, however, requests that people "Man Up, Sign Up" to receive its product updates by email.

Eagle-eyed readers have also highlighted that the Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers told the Anfield Wrap about his players: "If you get little niggles or little injuries, you've got to man up," when his squad was stretched before the January transfer window.
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What I find interesting is that 'coloured' is a term that's not acceptable but 'black' is.

In German it's the other way round.
 
GEORGE SEPHTON: ...And that was The Swinging Blue Jeans. Coming up next, the latest platter from Havoc f. Styles P & Raekwon, but first, allow me to assure all pooves, cripples, midgets and coloured folk that Operation Anfield will function just as well for all of you as it will do for normal folk. And now-

*Sound of scuffles amidst George shouting, "What did I say???"*
 
Judge Jules said:
Because it supposedly makes others write off anyone so described as being useless at anything. It's utter bollocks, but it's fashionable bollocks.
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I had once heard that it comes from the term 'hand in cap' because it was thought that was all they were good for. A tiny amount of research said that was bollocks. I thought there might have been an actual reason for it.
 
If I have a choice between offending someone in a wheelchair or conservatives on the internets it will be the latter usually. Of course it would be wonderful if all conservatives were in wheelchairs, but you can't have everything I suppose.
 
iseered said:
If I have a choice between offending someone in a wheelchair or conservatives on the internets it will be the latter usually. Of course it would be wonderful if all conservatives were in wheelchairs, but you can't have everything I suppose.
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It's not a choice: most people in wheelchairs have adequately functioning brains, and therefore wouldn't be offended by you calling them 'handicapped'. The ones that don't wouldn't be offended by *anything*.
 
True. You have to admit though that "urging people to use respectful language towards disabled people" is a great tool in the trolling toolbox.
 
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