DesertFox- wrote:
uziq wrote:
puerto ricans making opportunistic jokes about rioting is poor form, isn't it?
plus doesn't this guy basically live in newark? at least in paris they burn things with style.
Is there some stereotype abroad about Puerto Ricans rioting I'm missing here? There definitely is one for European soccer hooligans
we hear news all the time about riots in puerto rico or the dominican republic/haiti.
there’s obviously a mutually distorting lens on both sides. football hooliganism is a meme but it really hasn’t typified the last few major tournaments. not from europeans anyway. the russians are way more hardcore and notorious for that stuff nowadays. france fans? england fans? that’s hardly the demographic who have travelled to qatar. and it’s not firms of ‘hooligans’ who are lighting fires in the streets.
i made my post to macbeth because his only comments on the world cup thus far have been painfully slanted political hot takes that barely even connect to political reality. which has been very common in all commentary about the world cup tbh.
e.g. a lot of people saying ‘we are all moroccans now’ or ‘this is an amazing tournament for colonial comeuppance’. ‘wow, an african team in the world cup semis, truly the era of western dominance is over!’. nobody ever wants to ask what moroccan culture makes of sub-saharan africa. or contends with the fact that morocco itself is a coloniser and oppressor of vast swathes of the western sahara. lol. a bunch of the morocco supporters are making jokes about al-andalus, like switching one form of historical nostalgia and chauvinism for another is somehow an improvement. the same sort of questionable smugness underlies the ‘paris is going to burn whether it’s the whites or the arabs’.
i do mock macbeth for his more uncle tom’ish aspects, yea. he plays both sides a lot and works himself into some strange nooks.
Last edited by uziq (2022-12-12 15:08:29)
