Comments on: British press fury over Hamilton hate site

By: lou

lou — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:48:54 +0000

Poor baby Hamilton/ can’t fight his own battels? FIA make me sick…

By: homegym

homegym — Sun, 23 May 2010 01:56:57 +0000

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By: Rabi

Rabi — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:25:49 +0000

@Kanyima: I never said it was acceptable, I said “Unfortunately there isn’t a single country on earth that doesn’t have some form of racism in it.”

Which means that no matter how much anti-racism campaigning you do it will never eliminate racism which is a sad thing because of how vile it is. I don’t stand for it I condone it, but I’m not going to act suprised when it happens. If we weren’t a prejiduce race we wouldn’t have ever had any wars, backstabbing or evil floating about the world like we do have now.

By: michael counsell

michael counsell — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:54:31 +0000

Lets not condemn Spain as a country as that is a form of racism as well but at the same time what has been going on is not acceptable. The FIA are trying to do something but how can they change bigoted opinions. Its a question which faces everyone as proably everyone knows a racist who will stubbonly refuse to see reason.

By: Gusto

Gusto — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:11:38 +0000

After all that has happened, then even to mention racism, makes me feel sick to the stomach, there are not words to describe how angry and frustrated I feel to F1, what ever happens Sunday I feel hard pressed to feel anything but contempt for F1, after 25 years of nothing but Love for F1, I now feel disgusted with it all and hope the whole thing dies in the credit crunch.

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:38:38 +0000

The site has now been closed down (see update above). A story on the Guardian's website gives more information:

A spokesman in the company's New York office said it did not know why the site, which was designed and owned by its interactive marketing branch in Spain, had not been monitored to stop racists using it to abuse Hamilton. "The site has been taken down," said TBWA spokesman Jeremy Miller. "We have no other official comment to make at the moment." The firm's clients in Spain include McDonald's, Nivea, Clinique, Häagan-Dazs ice cream and Spain's state-owned Renfe rail operator.

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:30:40 +0000

Snoopy – I do think that sometimes, some people, use ‘racism’ to explain criticism of Hamilton when it does not apply. But if you look at some of the things written on this particular website (assuming the translations I’ve read are accurate), there is no question the terms chosen are racist.

By: Snoopy

Snoopy — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:35 +0000

Spanish do not like Hamilton but why call them racist? Why everytime when somebody start say some bad about Hamilton it is racist? Because Racist card is allways easiest to use.
I do not like racist comments but i also do not like use “you are racist” card. We ave some experience about that in Australia. Cricket between India And Australia. It was allmost war in last year. And all because some indians called Symonds (australian player with dark skin) monkey. RACISt was all around in paper Australia and nobody did not noticed that australians called indians in bad names as well.
And when it goes to british they are very very pasion for their sport. There was diplomatic crises between Aussie and England years ago and all because cricket.

And how about Ice hockey?? Geesh. Between Sweden and Finland. They use all possible bad names what they can imagine and thats a lot i can tell. And nobody is banned or newspapers do not write about it.

My point is that calling bad names has always been in sport and allways will be. Because Hamiltons skin is dark do not mean that they call him in bad names because that. Obviously spanish do not like him because what happened last season with Alonso. And that is nothing to do with skin colour.

Or do that means that every other people can be called what every names but not any person whose skin is dark?

By: David - BR

David - BR — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:42:51 +0000

EGC

Sorry but your comment is wrong. The site has many racist and abusive comments, far from being a ‘game.’ And you cannot speak for a ‘we’ here unless your speaking for these racists too. Are you?

By: David - BR

David - BR — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:40:40 +0000

In fairness to Alonso, he has condemned in principle the kind of racism shown on the site (http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/71880):

Spain’s two-time champion Fernando Alonso, who said he had not heard about the website, also condemned the racist fans.

“If it is true then it is not possible (acceptable),” Alonso said. “In these days, in 2008, we cannot have these kind of people in our world. It is not only F1, it is not only sport, it is life as well. This is not possible (acceptable) in our days.”

Beneboy I agree totally about the hypocrisy of the UK tabloid press and about racism in British sport too. However that’s no reason not to confront racist behaviour and comments whoever its from.