I want to add (not being the slightest interested in soccer) that I have only just caught up with the awful stuff that's being hurled at some individuals on social media. Overtly racist much of it is, but there is also an undercurrent of sheer hatred which I suspect goes beyond it. The people who write this stuff (which it seems to me the "tribal" aspect of soccer support encourages) are consumed with a nastiness for anything which offends them and if they can find a racist peg to hang their nastiness on they will do just that.
Which doesn't make it any less racist.
Like others here, I have had good reason recently to thank the many health care professionals who have helped me over the last few years, the vast majority of whom have been non-white (am I allowed to put it like that?), from the consultant who broke some bad news to me and later operated on me, to the nurse whose face was the first I saw when I came round from the anaesthetic... and so it goes on, too many to list.
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