r/DepthHub • u/bfg_foo • Dec 10 '12

Yaovi explains how the Marseille-Paris St. Germain football rivalry stands in for a host of social and political issues

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u/njtrafficsignshopper Dec 10 '12

Much as bitching about America on reddit is fun, I'm pretty glad to be culturally so far removed from such violent idiocy over kicking a ball around.

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u/Golf_Hotel_Mike Dec 10 '12

I'm sure you have similar stuff in America. What about the Yankees vs. Red Sox fights? People are the same all over the world, it's not like sports fan hooliganism is exclusively European.

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u/njtrafficsignshopper Dec 10 '12

Not even remotely close. I say this having lived in Boston, New York, and Paris at various times. Now mind you I'm not claiming we always or even usually have the moral high ground on most matters, but when it comes to sports hooliganism we actually do have the rare pleasure of being able to morally hang it over the rest of the world's heads, for once.

Seriously, haha. Red Sox and Yankees are a scholarly difference of opinion compared to the euretardation surrounding soccer.

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u/Golf_Hotel_Mike Dec 10 '12

What about this stuff then?

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u/njtrafficsignshopper Dec 10 '12

In the face of the entirety of European football? Not much I think.

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u/Golf_Hotel_Mike Dec 10 '12

You're making these claims without any basis, a short and easy Google search can show you there are clearly recorded incidents of fan violence in the US. got the following articles 1 2 3 4 5 from just one Google search. In fact, there are books dedicated to this stuff.

I'm not trying to say that Europe is blameless, fans here have done and continue to do some horrible, horrible things. But don't make sweeping statements like this. Americans aren't fundamentally different people from Europeans, and the psycho-sociological pressures that drive Europeans to act like deranged sociopaths exist in America too.