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Offline TomSea

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Chelsea football club to send racist fans to Auschwitz
« on: October 13, 2018, 04:30:33 pm »
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Chelsea football club to send racist fans to Auschwitz
By Rick Noack
12 October 2018

Berlin: European soccer can bring out some of the best – and the worst – in people. Racism belongs in the latter category, and clubs across the continent continue to struggle with how to address discrimination and even violent assaults.

For decades, major teams resorted to banning offenders, but the English Premier League club Chelsea is now trying a new approach by sending racist fans on educational trips to former Nazi concentration camps.

"If you just ban people, you will never change their behavior," Chelsea Chairman Bruce Buck told the Sun newspaper on Thursday, providing details about a project the club announced at the beginning of the year.

Read more at: https://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/chelsea-football-club-to-send-racist-fans-to-auschwitz-20181012-p5096x.html

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Re: Chelsea football club to send racist fans to Auschwitz
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2018, 04:41:13 pm »
Because they're antisemitic?  (I ask in all honesty.  Is that the problem?)