The players themselves gave specific accounts of overt racism. I've seen it plenty in conversations in pubs or conversations with my own family (my families take on whos responsible for lockdown is a particularly interesting one, akin to a players recent twitter comment.)

Racism shouted from the terraces or typed on social media is still racism. You can't say its gone away and then say it happens on social media or on the sidelines. Racism isn't always overt. Thats half the battle/argument.

An argument of "I don't see it so it doesn't happen" isn't going to win many debates

There is quite a push to get that classed as such, as it should be. And yes, twitter is full of poop, but you still can't say racism doesnt exist because its on twitter and you avoid it

When was the last time you heard someone get arrested for being ginger? Passed over (on a CV, promotion, pay grade) for being ginger? Refused service, entry, stopped and search.... simply for being ginger? Until then you are comparing oranges with apples.

Ask someone who's experienced it, like Kris Radlinski said in his book, he believes its the only acceptable racism still happening.

In the 1950s when the Welsh rugby union wouldn't pick Billy Boston because he was black, rugby league accepted him. Same with many other players. Roy Francis was given a chance when black people weren't given coaching jobs.

Rugby League was anti-racist and treated people fairly 50 years before anyone else and we should be proud of that.

I look at facts and I see openly racist football crowds in Eastern Europe and that's were the focus needs to be, not in Rugby League because bar the odd idiot who might have shouted something from the terraces 20 years ago and further or post something on social media anonymously giving someone abuse I just think we as a sport should be proud of being trail blazers in it.

If the club or league wanted to support 'kick it out' then thats fine, I'd back them every time.

No

Would you boycott the club if they chose to show support for ginger people? What about the LGBTQ community with Pride Day?

If those ginger people were burning our flag at the Haig Memorial, desecrating war memorials and statues of Churchill, if those ginger people were against the nuclear family, anti-semitic and wanted to defund the police then yes. As for the LGBTQ they can do whatever they want in their bedrooms I couldn't give a toss, I just want to watch rugby.

Those gingers have been busy if they have all been doing that, rather than an incredibly small but convenient sample of them to tar a whole ginger population with.

Genuine question - who is against the nuclear family by the way? And what even is the "nuclear family"?