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It’s like you’re unable to watch a sports match without turning it into some silly race war shit.

It reminds me of when white Americans were so butthurt by Jack Johnson they forced a boxer to come out of retirement, calling him “The Great White Hope”. It’s such a primitive tribal form of thinking.
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in my cunt we r scared of youth crime...

but compared to yours, it dwarfs it.

i wonder why tho
just saiyan
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>>155242139
Well 4chan is infested with neet incels from first world countries who have NOTHING going for them on an individua level so they just roleplay as their flag because they have no substance and that's their entire personality, now with all the tourists coming in it gets even worse
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>>155242139
Team sport is tribalism you jungle ape
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>>155242361
You're not those people, you have no influence of political agendas. you're racebaiting for (you)s on a Cantonese basket weaving forum when the rest of us are trying to have a discussion about sports
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Here's a forum-style post written from a broadly Marxist perspective while avoiding heavy theoretical jargon:

Every World Cup revives the same contradiction. We are told that football is the world's game, a celebration of humanity that transcends borders, cultures, and political divisions. Advertisements present it as a global festival where billions come together around a shared passion. For a few weeks, people from every continent watch the same matches, celebrate the same goals, and participate in the same spectacle.

Yet the event is organized entirely around nations, flags, anthems, and rivalries. The supposedly universal character of the tournament is constantly filtered through national competition. Supporters are encouraged to identify not simply with a team of footballers but with an imagined national community. Victory becomes "our" victory; defeat becomes "our" humiliation.

This tension becomes especially visible when it comes to race and ethnicity. Modern societies are shaped by migration, colonial history, and globalization. As a result, many national teams are composed of players with diverse backgrounds. On one level, this reflects a reality that nationalist narratives often struggle to acknowledge: nations are rarely as culturally or ethnically homogeneous as they imagine themselves to be.

But the reaction to these players frequently reveals the limits of the World Cup's cosmopolitan image. A player of immigrant origin can be embraced as a national hero when scoring goals and then treated as an outsider after a poor performance. The same supporters who celebrate diversity during victory may suddenly question a player's belonging during defeat. His passport remains the same, but his symbolic status changes overnight.
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>>155242435

The experience of players in countries such as France, England, Germany, Belgium, and elsewhere has repeatedly demonstrated this pattern. When the team wins, it is portrayed as proof of successful integration and national unity. When it loses, discussions quickly emerge about loyalty, identity, and whether certain players are "really" part of the nation.

The boundary of the national community becomes flexible, expanding and contracting according to circumstance.

What makes this particularly striking is that many supporters genuinely believe they are participating in an international celebration of cultural openness. In practice, however, the tournament often reproduces older forms of exclusion. The World Cup invites people to admire other cultures while simultaneously encouraging them to see the world through competing national camps.

This does not mean that international football is inherently reactionary or that people should not enjoy supporting their countries. The attraction of the World Cup lies precisely in its ability to create emotional bonds across enormous distances. But it is worth recognizing that the tournament contains opposing impulses. It showcases a world that is increasingly interconnected while organizing that world through national competition. It celebrates multicultural realities while often giving expression to nationalist resentments.

Perhaps this is why debates over race, immigration, and belonging return every four years. They are not accidental controversies that intrude upon the tournament from the outside. They emerge from a contradiction built into the event itself. The World Cup promises a vision of global unity, but it delivers that promise through institutions and identities that are often defined by exclusion. The result is a spectacle where cosmopolitanism and nationalism do not cancel each other out but exist side by side, uneasily, throughout the tournament.
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>'noooooooo my countrys ngubus are better than your countrys ngubus'
>thats retarded
>'hurr your obsessed with race'
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turkroaches got btfo honestly
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>>155242240
cool
we posted at the exact same time
and total post number right after
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>>155242139
Race war? Soccer hooliganism, especially way back when was much worse than calling other players niggers or whatever today



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