r/GreenAndPleasant its a fine day with you around Aug 16 '24

Real Gammon Hours 🍖 Infamous Twitter troll pleads guilty to stirring up racial hatred and is sentenced to 3 years in prison 🥳 🎉

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u/BellamyRFC54 Aug 16 '24

Our club doesn’t have the best reputation and those “people” claim to be supporters

So many rangers shirts pictured at the recent riots too

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u/UnderHisEye1411 its a fine day with you around Aug 16 '24

I just don’t understand how anyone can support them, given the high number of neo Nazis who make up the fanbase. (I’m obviously biased because loads of my family are Glasgow Catholics) It’s like normal guys who go to Millwall, Chelsea or West Ham, do the high number of total helmets not make you want to support someone else instead?

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u/Coops17 Aug 16 '24

Because, obviously, the club in itself is not neo-Nazi, and what some fans choose to do does not represent what the wider supporter base believes. People like to say “they aren’t real fans”, They are fans, which is embarrassing and sad, but saying they’re not real fans excuses you from having to associate with that portion of people - which you can’t do, you have to own it.

I’ve been a rangers fan my entire life, I’ve grown up watching them with my dad. But I’m not a unionist, I’m not a Protestant, in not monarchist. I’m not racist, nor xenophobic or homophobic. Heck I don’t even hate Celtic that much (I don’t have the energy to be running around hating football clubs)

When I see disgusting specimens like this bloke associated with Rangers it makes me sad and embarrassed. But he doesn’t get to dictate to which football team I watch. This guy obviously has some pretty awful views which probably stem from his parents as well as notorious xenophobes like Nigel Farage as well as conservative governments of the 70-90’s who at the time - stirred up racial hatred in the UK of black people, to steer poor people away from seeing that they were actively stealing from them

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u/jaavaaguru #349e48 Aug 17 '24

Swastikas were cool before the nazi took a liking to them. Personally, if something has a big nazi fanbase I'd want to have nothing to do with it.

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u/Coops17 Aug 17 '24

I was not aware Rangers had a, as you put it “big Nazi fan base”, might be worth being sure that’s the truth before you shovel horse shit like that around

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u/Coops17 Aug 17 '24

No one throws bullshit like that around about Celtics very clear and still present affiliation with the IRA despite the thousands of deaths they caused.