Offensive Language?

God forbid that I should find myself more or less agreeing with something David Cameron says, but Hell, even Old Etonian Tory shitbags like him can't be wrong all the time.  I speak, of course, about the entirely manufactured 'controversy' over Tottenham supporters use of the term 'Yids' to describe themselves, regardless of whether they are Jew or Gentile.  With the FA calling for this to stop as part of their campaign to 'stamp out racism' in football and threats that Spurs could be fined and individual fans arrested if the use of the term in terrace chants continues, Cameron has opined that there is an obvious difference between fans using the term to describe themselves and its use by anti-Semites as a term of racial abuse.  Perhaps some background is required here for the non-football fans to be able to put this all into context.  Tottenham Hotspur, based in North London, is a football club that has traditionally attracted a lot of Jewish support and has been financed by Jewish businessmen, including, in recent times, the likes of Alan Sugar and Joe Lewis.  Consequently, some supporters of rival clubs - I'm talking about you here Chelsea - have resorted to anti-Semitic abuse and chants when playing Spurs.  In response, to show solidarity, all Spurs fans, regardless of their cultural or religious backgrounds, have identified themselves as 'Yids' in a show of solidarity. 

So much for background.  The thing which has really annoyed me today, since Cameron's soundbite, is the media's constant trotting out of prominent Jews - none of whom support Spurs -  saying the use of the term 'Yid' by Spurs fans is wrong.  OK, they are entitled to their opinion.  However, the arguments they have used to justify their position are pathetic.  Apparently, Spurs supporters calling themselves 'Yids' encourages the rival fans to respond with anti-Semitic chants and abuse!  Excuse me?  Isn't this rather trying to reverse cause and effect and somehow blame the victims for being abused?  Rather than throwing their hands up and wailing how offended they are by hearing the word 'Yid', some of these people should be asking themselves why, as Jews, they are supporting clubs whose fans themselves seem to be overwhelmingly anti-Semitic?  If the FA is really worried about racism on the terraces, then surely they should be tackling Chelsea about the chants of 'You are on your way to Auschwitz' their fans regularly direct toward their Tottenham counterparts.  Oh, but I forgot - they only do that because they've been so offended themselves by hearing the word 'Yid' uttered by the Spurs faithful.  Like I said: pathetic.