This is, once again, a classic example of the way in which Western Law, particularly in Anglo Saxon societies, has become excessively paternalistic, so as to protect itself from it’s own uncontrollable, deeply ingrained, racist tendencies. Much like the alcoholic who requires outside intervention in order to keep himself accountable, and effectively from destroying himself, so too, deeply racist societies like those of northern Europe, have relied heavily on artificial means, through law, to subdue it’s racist demons. It is unsustainable, because given the right, or should I say, wrong economic and social conditions, we would see Northern European fall into the extreme right, as Germany did in the 40s, under such conditions. Suarez is the victim of sensitivities that exist in countries that are unwillingly multicultural, and as a result, boiling in a racial pressure-cooker. In some countries, “Negro” is a term of endearment, in others, it’s a dirty word. Who’s right? You decide.
Some writer had an article that went like this - “Although Uruguay may have had black players representing their country for almost a century, their continued use of such words to describe black people shows that their country still sees race as an issue worth referencing”.
Absolutely, and we even do this in songs too. Many of our enlightened, folk musicians have often romanticised Africanism, and revered blackness long before the Civil Rights movement or any such enlightenment in the Anglo Saxon world. Most of these musicians weren’t black, or certainly not in the near past. You have to understand that from the Mediterranean to Latin America, there is no ‘white’ race, in reality (though some would like to believe). Before England’s first ‘Mulato’, Spain, Portugal, Italy etc had already been biracial societies, and this was a major factor in the Spanish, as brutal as they were as colonisers, allowing inter-race marriage in the colonies. So it’s not surprising than in societies where racial purity is GENERALLY, and I emphasize GENERALLY not of primary importance, that such racial sensitivities do not exist as they do in nations such as Enlgand, the US, and South Africa, in particular. Biraciality in Latin America has been the norm for hundreds of years. In England, as in the US, it is still something that seems to be taboo, or gain excessive attention. You claim Uruguay is England’s 1995 social equivalent, though most would say, England is Latin America’s 1700's social equivalent. Yes, a minority of “enlightened” British lawmakers, social engineers, and PC lobbyists are trying to curb societal disease that is racism in Britain, but how do you change the inherently racist and purist heart of the Brit? That is the source of the problem, and until your whiteness is bred out, you will always need draconian laws to subdue your prejudices. Don’t forget, you are northern European, and you can believe what you want, but the rest of the world knows what you are, and what you’ve done. You fool noone but yourselves, if you think you have the moral high-ground on this issue.