{"id":138028,"date":"2021-02-16T15:09:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T20:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=138028"},"modified":"2021-02-16T15:27:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T20:27:55","slug":"soccer-player-suspended-for-allegedly-offensive-racial-remark-sparking-international-debate-about-language-and-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soccer-player-suspended-for-allegedly-offensive-racial-remark-sparking-international-debate-about-language-and-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer Player Suspended For Allegedly Offensive Racial Remark, Sparking International Debate About Language And Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsoccer-player-suspended-for-allegedly-offensive-racial-remark-sparking-international-debate-about-language-and-context%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=138028&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1231075332.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Star soccer player Edinson Cavani, a Uruguayan striker who plays for Manchester United, was fined and suspended after publicly thanking his friend Pablo Fernandez by using his childhood nickname, \u201cnegrito.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The problem for Cavani came when people in British media who had not grown up in South America used a singular, narrow contextual view of Cavani\u2019s use of the word to paint him as a racist. Cavani was fined about $135,000 by the English Football Association and suspended for three games for the alleged infraction. As Dariela Sosa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.persuasion.community\/p\/cmo-se-dice-innocent\">explained<\/a> on Persuasion:<\/p>\n<p>To us Latin Americans, the story was just short of incomprehensible. \u201c<em>Negrito<\/em>\u201d\u2014the diminutive of the word for \u201cblack\u201d\u2014sounds aggressive in English. But, as&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.academiadeletras.gub.uy\/innovaportal\/v\/124868\/46\/mecweb\/ante-la-sancion-a-edinson-cavani?parentid=123710\">Uruguay\u2019s National Academy of Letters<\/a>&nbsp;noted, in Spanish it\u2019s not offensive; it\u2019s a term of endearment. It\u2019s not even particularly racialized: Plenty of white people are nicknamed&nbsp;<em>negrito,&nbsp;<\/em>including, as it happens, Cavani\u2019s friend. (His hair is black.)<\/p>\n<p>The Uruguayan Players\u2019 Union released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/2021\/01\/04\/edinson-cavani-ban-uruguay-players-union-england-fa-racism\">a statement<\/a> regarding Cavani\u2019s punishment, writing, \u201cUnfortunately, through its sanction, the English Football Association expresses absolute ignorance and disdain for a multicultural vision of the world.\u201d The South American Football Confederation released its own statement of support for the striker, saying the EFA did not \u201cconsider the cultural characteristics and the use of certain terms in everyday speech in Uruguay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Sosa explained, this incident goes far beyond misunderstandings between particular audiences, it \u201cshows how America\u2019s racial debates are being globalized via the export of a radical form of antiracist ideology that sees appeals to context or cross-cultural understanding as excuse-making for bigots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She went on to say that race in Latin America is different than how it is seen in American and Europe. In Latin America, race is \u201ccontext dependent,\u201d she wrote, describing how people may choose to identify differently depending on where they are or who they\u2019re with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRace isn\u2019t fixed for us\u2014which is one reason that racialized terms in Spanish don\u2019t carry anything like the sting they do in English,\u201d Sosa wrote.<\/p>\n<p>She went on to explain how \u201cbanning a given word regardless of the context in which it is used assumes that words exist in isolation from how we use them\u201d makes no sense linguistically, yet this is exactly why Cavani was punished.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApplied without regard for social, cultural and linguistic context, antiracism efforts risk becoming a caricature of themselves, driving a wedge between people of different cultures rather than bringing them together, as soccer does so impressively around the globe, engaging people of all origins and colors in team efforts. The English Football Association, with its over-the-top sanction of Cavani, managed instead to show only mindless adherence to a brand of maximalist Anglo-American antiracism ideology that does little to combat racism itself,\u201d Sosa wrote.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the context being ignored in regard to Cavani\u2019s statement of gratitude to his friend, intent was also ignored. The New York Times has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-york-times-editor-walks-back-statement-about-intent-when-using-a-racial-slur-of-course-intent-matters\">grappling<\/a> with this issue for two weeks now, first insisting a white reporter should have resigned for using a racial slur \u201cregardless of intent\u201d only to walk the statement back, saying \u201cof course intent matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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