This BBC article is racist?

[TheCriticalThinker]

This is one of the most bizarre articles I've ever read and I can't believe it's been published.

A white man said he saw a black man get racially abused in 2014 and he reacted by making it entirely about himself - he was so upset by it that he (the white man who was not the victim of the abuse) claims he had a nervous breakdown, which meant he was too scared to go to a football match for the next 8 years.

(The actual victim, Anthony Gardner, is only mentioned once in the article.)

The white man says what happened to him means that men should play in women's football, so he's now a trans activist.

If I was Anthony Gardner I'd not be happy about this.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cgl5x9kdk8zo

Sounds like a total crock of crap. Pathetic nonsense.

Very odd article

Only 45% of the 800 members are LGBTQ+. I'm reading that as a majority are concerned family members desperately trying to get their loved one out of the house. Or DEI wannabees getting something for the CV.

The start of the article reads as a bunch of non sequiturs.

That was an incredibly messy article.

Starts off with racism at football stadiums before sliding into homophobia, then slips in with no best friend to go to matches with and is so lonely , before tumbling into autism and non-binaries and then finally ends up with transwomen not being able to play football.

My god, I'm exhausted with following his thoughts trying to shoehorn everything in.

It's nice that Chris has a hobby, I suppose?

I wouldn't want to go back to the days when visiting fans at Watford would make up ribald chants at Elton John's expense, but Chris's story of "I heard someone at a match shout racist abuse at a black player, so as a gay man I felt unsafe to go to a match for eight years, so now I support men playing in women's football"...

Do we know that Chris really exists, and this isn't some Titania McGrath type spoof?