Zoopla to end WBA sponsorship over Anelka's quenelle - Polidicks

[img]http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02794/Nicolas_Anelka_2794916b.jpg[/img] [quote] Property website Zoopla says it will end its sponsorship deal with West Brom at the end of the current season due to Nicolas Anelka's 'quenelle' gesture. The gesture - which Anelka performed after scoring against West Ham last month - has anti-Semitic connotations in France. It has been described as an inverted Nazi salute, and Anelka's gesture drew widespread condemnation from anti-racism campaigners in the UK and France. Anelka insists the gesture - made widely known in France by the striker's controversial comedian friend Dieudonne - is anti-establishment, not anti-Jewish. [/quote] [url]http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11698/9125648/zoopla-to-end-west-brom-sponsorship-over-nicolas-anelkas-quenelle-gesture[/url]

Yeah nice save. Because being a football player is a great way to show you're anti-establishment.

Make Anti-semitic gesture: check. Make a dumbass of yourself as a result: check. Make a bigger dumbass of yourself by trying to backpedal in haste: check. This is why you try to be careful with your behavior in public, especially in sensitive matters like this, and especially if you're well known.

Kinda amazing people figure this gesture 'anti-semite' when it really just looks like he's brushing his shoulder off or pretending to give a self-amputation or something. I looked at a brief history of the thing and...iunno, just seems silly. Though I guess this guy is gonna get his ass chewed out for this later.

[QUOTE=Vaught;43605190]Kinda amazing people figure this gesture 'anti-semite' when it really just looks like he's brushing his shoulder off or pretending to give a self-amputation or something. I looked at a brief history of the thing and...iunno, just seems silly. Though I guess this guy is gonna get his ass chewed out for this later.[/QUOTE] A lot of matters like this are hard to identify if you're not a part of the context, and are often true. It's a cultural thing in France that most likely isn't old enough to be well known or in the history books but true nonetheless. The backpedal to say that it is anti-establishment is a flimsy covering of their idea that the Jewish people _are_ the establishment, owning the banks etc. [editline]20th January 2014[/editline] additionally he was definitely making a gesture; the stiff posture shows that it is no casual accident, and he confirmed it not to be happenstance anyway

[QUOTE=bitches;43605211]A lot of matters like this are hard to identify if you're not a part of the context, and are often true. It's a cultural thing in France that most likely isn't old enough to be well known or in the history books but true nonetheless. The backpedal to say that it is anti-establishment is a flimsy covering of their idea that the Jewish people _are_ the establishment, owning the banks etc. [editline]20th January 2014[/editline] additionally he was definitely making a gesture; the stiff posture shows that it is no casual accident, and he confirmed it not to be happenstance anyway[/QUOTE] Oh I'm aware he made it intentionally, its the gesture itself that seems wobbly in definition. Then again, I'm not French so I can't truly understand the impact it has, even if it [i]is[/i] wobbly in definition.

[QUOTE=Vaught;43605260]Oh I'm aware he made it intentionally, its the gesture itself that seems wobbly in definition. Then again, I'm not French so I can't truly understand the impact it has, even if it [i]is[/i] wobbly in definition.[/QUOTE] It's only wobbly because you don't know the symbol. It's like a person that doesn't knows anything about the nazi's saying "but they're just stretching their arm, seems a bit of a wobbly definition".

The person who created that gesture (Dieudonné) is known to be incredibly anti-Semitic. Regardless of whether Anelka meant it or not (he probably did in my opinion), he's a fucking idiot. He managed to get himself banned from international football, and now he is going to get himself a nice ban from club football.