Brendan O’Neill is editor of the London-based online magazine spiked and is a columnist for The Big Issue in the UK and Reason.com in the United States.
Video footage of Chelsea soccer fans apparently pushing a black man off a train in Paris on Tuesday have startled news followers around the world.
It isn’t hard to see why. Not only do the menacing fans, who were in the French capital to watch their team play Paris Saint-Germain, gruffly prevent the man from boarding the Metro; they then start to chant: “We’re racist, we’re racist, and that’s the way we like it!”
To behave in a racist fashion is bad enough; to boast of being racist takes things to a whole other level of wrongness.
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