@Siam said in Gareth Thomas:
@MiketheSnow said in Gareth Thomas:
@Siam said in Gareth Thomas:
I went off Thomas after all his virtue signalling when he claimed a 16 year old left him visibly shaken by attacking him on a Saturday night in Cardiff at 9pm.
That's right a 16 year old "hate" criminal saw Gareth Thomas and attacked him purely because of his sexuality. This 16 year old was able to better a professional 100kg athlete with thousands of hours of contact and combat training experience and it was definitively a "hate" crime (in other places it's called common assault and is against the law despite whatever motivations you tweet to the world).
Thomas highlighted that this assault (one of hundreds in Cardiff on any Saturday night) was due to his sexuality and was a hate crime. One common assault by a wayward teenager and all the world is a hot bed of poofter bashing huh? Well it might be but I doubt it and we have laws in place for assault.
One 5 minute altercation on a Cardiff street and we have twittered proof of HATE crimes! No other way to deal with it than proclaiming you've been the victim of a hate crime?
Thomas IMHO, has gone from a genuine contributor to societal equal treatment, with a pertinent story to tell, to a virtue signaller contributing to extra rights, based on his view of the world.
You're entitled to your opinion but there are plenty of 16-year olds on a night out in Cardiff who could easily knock out a pissed up 45-year old former professional athlete.
In fact they travel far and wide to the Capital for that very chance.
Been going on forever in S Wales, and I suspect in most working class cities
These boys invariably end up working the doors once their rep has been established.
Normal dick swinging Fighting or deliberate gay bashing?
I'm sure the former, and am sceptical that thugs are accurately cognizant of the sexuality of their targets, in this day and age.
It was the clear gay bashing narrative that is out of line here.
Look, Thomas was great to front up when and how he did and he added value to the community and society.
This value diminished when he pontificated "hate crime" and then embarked on a tv circuit of appearances, probably stunning and brave.
Now his value to society differs again as he takes us through an imaginative narrative involving HIV, the highest risk group in society, and, basically, the sexual conduct this group regularly exhibit
All because society mistreated you due to your immutable sex characteristics huh?
Yeah nah, fuck of Gareth, you're not the only gay in the village anymore, or do we have to sit through Nigel Owen's genital warts saga too?
We don't know, we weren't there. May have to take Thomas' word. In fairness, the kid didn't refute it.
The rest, agreed.
Turns out he and his husband have known about his HIV for ages and the only reason he came 'clean' about it was a newspaper found out and told his parents.
Thomas then tried to get ahead of it.
In his presser he said he wanted to educate himself and others about living with HIV.
Surely he should have been saying 'educate others not to make the same mistakes as me'.
