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Anelka's quenelle

Anelka the silly sod tweeted this picture of Obama, Jay Z, Beyonce and some other bloke supposedly doing the quenelle at an Obama fund raiser. Turns out "Jay-Z, Beyonce, President Barack Obama and a supporter [were] brushing the dirt off their shoulders [in] an ode to one of Jay-Z’s hit songs…"

Anelka needs to step back from twitter. He's not doing himself any favours.
 
brogdale said:
Have to admit I hadn't heard of it till now.

Mirror article seemed to make sense though.
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Same here for me. Anelka seems to be either a blundering idiot at best, or anti-Jewish at worst.

Here's another footballer making the same gesture:

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"Earlier in 2013 Montpellier full-back Mathieu Deplagne celebrated a goal against Sochaux by putting his hand to his opposite shoulder.
The gesture was not widely known at the time and Deplagne was not punished."

e2a: Here's some futher info on la quenelle: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/quenelle-france-racist?src=spr_TWITTER&spr_id=1456_36858952
 
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imposs1904 said:
Anelka needs to step back from twitter. He's not doing himself any favours.
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i heard something before the game about him just playing out his career now, i think his coach was denying this, not sure. if there's anything to this, i wonder whether he's consciously trying to bring forward his retirement (via a ban) or just letting rip with his views if he thinks he's on the final straight.
 
LiamO said:
Can anyone point me to something that shows the point this 'comedian' is actually trying to make rather than the myriad of pieces showing what various interest groups have decided he is trying to make?
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I have to agree.

This seems a load of shit...wtf is a reverse nazi salute? Sounds like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever more than what Anelka did. You can't just decide to make up a new nazi salute...only nazis can do that...and sure as fuck Anelka isn't one of them.
 
LiamO said:
Can anyone point me to something that shows the point this 'comedian' is actually trying to make rather than the myriad of pieces showing what various interest groups have decided he is trying to make?
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DexterTCN said:
I have to agree.

This seems a load of shit...wtf is a reverse nazi salute? Sounds like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever more than what Anelka did. You can't just decide to make up a new nazi salute...only nazis can do that...and sure as fuck Anelka isn't one of them.
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Oh dear. :facepalm:

This article gives a bit more information on the connotations of the gesture, along with some background on Dieudonné. After reading that, do you still want to hear his excuses?
During his one-man show, he attacked Patrick Cohen, a Jewish radio journalist who has publicly criticised him. Dieudonné said: “When the wind turns, I don’t think he’ll have time to pack a suitcase. When I hear Patrick Cohen talking, you see, I think of gas ovens.”
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LiamO said:
Can anyone point me to something that shows the point this 'comedian' is actually trying to make rather than the myriad of pieces showing what various interest groups have decided he is trying to make?
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Here's his poster. You work it out:

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Fucking hell, is this wilful ignorance? Anelka said it was in tribute this this guy, the guy who invented it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieudonné_M'bala_M'bala

A man with links across the French far-right whose antisemitism is clear - not just clear, absolutely unashamed.

Do a quick search for the quenelle being performed and you can find perhaps hundreds of examples of people doing it outside concentration camps, memorials, etc.

This stuff isn't ambiguous, these guys revel in it.
 
Fez909 said:
Oh dear. :facepalm:

This article gives a bit more information on the connotations of the gesture, along with some background on Dieudonné. After reading that, do you still want to hear his excuses?
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As a reasonable human being I require a little more to convince me that Anelka...a black Muslim...is a nazi.
 
overpaid eejit does eejit thing shock. the guy who supports him, the half cameroonian comedian is also connected as a godparent to le pen. confused?
 
DexterTCN said:
No, the term is used in the link in the OP, mate.
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It's not, or at least not anymore. And if it was, it says a lot about where you are coming from that it's the first thing you decided to pick up on and quibble with "WELL HOW CAN A BLACK MUSLIM BE AN NAZI GUYS!?!!>!". Didn't you think to have a read of the article first to find out, instead of coming on here asking fucking dumb questions?

Now come on, how do you think the charge of antisemite holds up?
 
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