Another player has jumped to the defence of Enzo Fernandez after the racist video surfaced earlier in the week.
You will all know the story by now. But in a nutshell, Enzo posted a video with himself and his Argentina team mates singing a chant from the last World Cup that features racism and homophobia. It’s important to say that it wasn’t just Enzo in the video, but obviously he is taking the brunt of it because he is the one you can see clearly in the video and also, the one who posted it.
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It doesn’t matter anyway, the video/chant was idiotic and disgusting.
Anyway, Enzo has since apologised, everyone is having their opinion on it, and various people are coming out and trying to defend Enzo and to be honest, it’s just making it all worse.
Liverpool’s Alexis Mac Allister is a Argentine team mate of Enzo and was probably on the bus too at the time of the video, and he’s come out and defended Enzo.
Mac Allister thinks people are being too sensitive
“You have to be careful with what you say or do, Mac Allister was cited as saying via X. “Especially in Europe where they are much more sensitive than here.
“The reality is that we are not a racist country; we are not used to talking about racism so much. Yes, it’s a very important topic, obviously.
“Enzo has already apologized and explained what happened. I don’t think there’s much more to say. We know Enzo, we know he would never do it with bad intentions, he’s not that guy, he’s not racist.
“It’s just a chant that got stuck and is more of a mocking tone than anything else. But, as I said, you have to be very careful.
“I think the most important thing is that Enzo came out, gave the corresponding apologies, and that, in the end, should be valued.”
Oh dear….
Is he the only one in the bus
Racist sentiment is usually acquired during childhood, sometimes even passed down generationally like a communicable virus/sickness. It may be further cemented by a misguided yet strong sense of entitlement, perhaps also environmentally acquired.
Especially if it’s deliberate, rearing one’s very impressionable young children in such an environment of baseless contempt and overt bigotry amounts to a formidable form of child abuse.
Parents should really do their kids a big favor by NOT passing down onto them such destructive sentiments and perceptions (including stereotypes and ‘humor’), since such rearing ironically can make life so much harder for one’s own children.
It fails to prepare children for the practical reality of an increasingly diverse and populous society and workplace. It also makes it so much less likely those children will be emotionally content or (preferably) harmonious with their multicultural and multi-ethnic/-racial surroundings.
Children reared into their adolescence and, eventually, young adulthood this way can often be angry yet not fully realize at precisely what. Then they may feel left with little choice but to move to another part of the land, where their own ethnicity/race predominates, preferably overwhelmingly so.
Not surprising, the earliest years are typically the best time to instill and even solidify diversity-positive attitudes and social-interaction life skills/traits into a very young brain/mind.
I consider myself lucky in having a mother who never had anything disdainful to say about people of different races and cultures. In fact, she, though being of Croatian heritage, still enjoys watching/listening to the Middle Eastern and Indian subcontinental dancers and musicians on the multicultural channel.
Most memorable for me was being emphatically told at a very young and therefore impressionable age by her about the exceptionally kind and caring nature of our Black family doctor. I believe that in doing so she had a positive and lasting effect on me.