Online personalities are all too often broad brushing for likes. Many of them are racist themselves so they’ll seize any opportunity to throw that accusation at another.
My beef was with the way the Argentine team acted on the pitch and after the whistle. They did not play with good sportsmanship. Turning their backs on the winning team during the lift (except that one player who faced the stage with good character) was the last straw for me. Argentina’s team had massive help from the refs in earlier games and acted like spoiled jerks. What this says about Argentina as a whole is nothing, but the team they sent were mostly assholes.
I don’t know what people expected they’re even sore winners.
i hear messi has ties with zionism.
I don’t think Messi by himself does, but Milei used football (and his team) to promote politics. Not only did he tie his team to his stupid politics in Argentina, but he invited Israel to do so too. Many israeli ministers got to meet up and get photoshoots with the team. Even Netanyahu said he wanted Argentina to win.
Such a sport event was inherently politic, just like Eurovision is despite their best efforts to say it isn’t. But purposefully using it to promote your politics by blatantly associating your country’s team to both your ancap government and Israel’s government is kind of a dick move, and no other country did.
he goes where the $ takes him.
There’s some solid irony in the counter-claims by Argentinians who are quoted in this article. “You shouldn’t cast all Argentinans as racist!” - fair enough. I know there are lots of good, tolerant people in Argentina.
But then those same people claim that all celebrities who are critical of them are ignorant about their country, and that Americans as a whole have no right to speak on racism because of their country’s history.
Generalizations cut both ways.
And then their president claims “they’re just jealous of us because we’re good at everything”. What a fucking joke. That’s buying but jingoistic deflection. But we already knew that guy is, in many ways, a completed cretin.
Argentitians claim they are not racist but they voted for their version of Trump
I mean, you could apply that logic to the USA too. Doesn’t mean all USAsians are racist.
No, it means most USAmericans are racist
