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Pablo Matera to fight for the survival of his International career?
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<blockquote data-quote="Cruz_del_Sur" data-source="post: 1011702" data-attributes="member: 55747"><p>I think you are quite accurate. It's mostly used in the social/economic sense but I'm pretty sure the origin was race-related at some point, thou not now. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Regarding Cavani's incident, it is very difficult for me to explain it without coming across as biased. Having said that, I've spent enough time abroad sharing houses, work and friendships with people from all over the place in order to understand what is faux pas and what is just a misunderstanding. Cavani's case is 100% a misunderstanding. There is not even an iota of intent to harm anyone in his post. </p><p>I'm actually against Cavani issuing any sort of apology about this. He did absolutely nothing wrong and i would hate to see him cave on this. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Regarding Matera & Co, it is bad. What I'm missing here is UAR's apology. They are putting all the blame on Matera and while he deserves a huge part of it, someone with authority should have done his/her due diligence. This wasn't some minute encrypted message in the bottom of the internet, but a public tweet for anyone to see. They could have checked, they should have checked, and they did not. </p><p>I am afraid they will throw the players under the bass as a way to compensate for their own mistakes. </p><p></p><p>A fake Matera account on twitter started an interesting experiment: they listed every journalist, politician and celebrity who asked for Matera's head and started their own due diligence of their background regarding any politically incorrect post. The idea is not to exonerate Matera but to expose the hypocrisy some of those asking for his head. </p><p>Hardly anyone resists an archive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cruz_del_Sur, post: 1011702, member: 55747"] I think you are quite accurate. It's mostly used in the social/economic sense but I'm pretty sure the origin was race-related at some point, thou not now. Regarding Cavani's incident, it is very difficult for me to explain it without coming across as biased. Having said that, I've spent enough time abroad sharing houses, work and friendships with people from all over the place in order to understand what is faux pas and what is just a misunderstanding. Cavani's case is 100% a misunderstanding. There is not even an iota of intent to harm anyone in his post. I'm actually against Cavani issuing any sort of apology about this. He did absolutely nothing wrong and i would hate to see him cave on this. Regarding Matera & Co, it is bad. What I'm missing here is UAR's apology. They are putting all the blame on Matera and while he deserves a huge part of it, someone with authority should have done his/her due diligence. This wasn't some minute encrypted message in the bottom of the internet, but a public tweet for anyone to see. They could have checked, they should have checked, and they did not. I am afraid they will throw the players under the bass as a way to compensate for their own mistakes. A fake Matera account on twitter started an interesting experiment: they listed every journalist, politician and celebrity who asked for Matera's head and started their own due diligence of their background regarding any politically incorrect post. The idea is not to exonerate Matera but to expose the hypocrisy some of those asking for his head. Hardly anyone resists an archive. [/QUOTE]
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