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You can't stop the virtue signalling train!

The FA's Response

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This should be all that is heard of it.

Not really racist, araujo refers to himself with the gorilla emoji.

This is the biggest issue in todays society, someone getting offended on other behalfs.

FA: You've offended Onana.

Onana: No he didn't.

FA: ...How dare you??

Why two gorillas is the other one Maguire?

“This matter should go no further” that’s a man right there. Onana swings his own sword.

This a fair and reasonable take.

How dare you! FA has a final say! /s

Classy response on Onana’s part.

Respect 🫡

Onana: "This matter should go no further"

Reddit: 320 comments and counting

Garnacho isn’t racist but why is everyone acting like racists don’t equate black people to primates? Isn’t it Eugenics 101?

Such a non story. Maybe the FA should focus on real issues, not imagined ones.

Didn't he mean "beast" or something? Are we really gonna ban people over Emoji? Then allowing these emoji to exist in the first place is racist then.

All I know is according to FIFA all you mfr’s who are discussing this topic need to be banned for 10 months a minimum! 😂

FA is just a bunch of over-pretentious fellas.

Done and done.

FA bans Onana for defending racism

Obviously not racist or motivated by racism and will be blown out of proportion but jesus fucking christ any danger of just some common sense?

Do people really think he would be racist towards his own teammate? Lol

Every human is an ape.

Focus is on this BS instead of Onanas performance and single handed winning the game in the last minute.

Sad monke noises

That should put this matter to bed, it won't, but it should.

I wish people compared me to a gorilla. Unfortunately I’m more like a macaque.

Bissouma uses the gorilla emoji in lots of tweets, and it’s in his Twitter name 🦍❤️

The problem is that the FA operates without critical thinking and is coming purely from a white, British-American ethnocentric view of the world. These old dying boomers will benefit from a cultural awareness class.

Serious question here... So where's all the fuss about Kobe and Black mamba and Auba and Black Panther?

Is this not enough to close the matter

This stuff posted by a team mate/friend is harmless and in good spirit.

If same stuff is posted by a opposition player or a fan, it becomes terribly offensive and racist.

That's the truth. The duality of interpretation is ironical.

I’m not sure why everyone here is mad about people perceiving gorilla as a racist remark

Like yeah out of context it would look like a racist remark to me too

People are aware of history

I'd say that the FA might be racist for considering a pic with a gorilla emoji racist.

Appropiating Latinos is more racist that whatever Cavani & Garnacho supposedly did.

What the FA doesn't know is that Garnacho is actually a peronist and he is calling Onana a gorilla for voting for Milei.

Someone needs to explain uk law to him. It doesn’t matter if the recipients is offended, if someone else sees, or overhears something and THEY are offended, your nicked

Where is this gonna end? Why are people so sensitive? Im done 😓

Welcome to politically correct era Onana...it sucks I know :)

This the year 2046, the contract of United striker Castello has been cancelled because of his social media post containing a yellow smiley emojis which is viewed as an insult to the Chinese community.

This is the best response. I'm sorry you assumed he was racist when he posted a monkey

Using a gorilla/silverback emoji to compliment your team members after a win is 100% different from shouting or mimicking a gorilla to insult someone. I mean… Onana should be the first one to call a racist insult out if it was the case. Garnacho being argentinian does not help and the internet went mad 😂

Greenwood Gf should come out with the same statement. It might quell some outrage.

Common sense prevails (hopefully).

Would have been cooler if he said

I know exactly what Garnacho meant: FUCKING BEAST