The Thai Football Association has issued a lifetime ban to Thai referee Mr. Somsak Poosomnuek for using a racial slur in Thai, equivalent to the N-word (‘Ai Dam’), against Abdulkordiri Hamid, a Thai-Ghanaian football player fluent in Thai, during a third division game. In his defense, he claimed it wasn’t racist, pointing to his own darker skin tone compared to the typical Thai individual. Additionally, he noted that his friends have consistently referred to him as ‘Ai Dam’ throughout his life.

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https://www.siamsport.co.th/football-thailand/thaileague-3/35815/

https://www.siamsport.co.th/football-thailand/thaileague-3/37131/

  • jujuismynamekinda@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Dont know the historical/social context of the word but thats such a dumb excuse. I’ve seen here a picture of the ref and him claiming he is darker is the same as someone northern european claiming he is nearly black after a week in Mallorca. Dude looks slightly more tan than most Thai and even that is debatable.

    Like, what a regard. At least get yourself not a regarded excuse.

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    1 year ago

    I wouldn’t use that phrase to describe anyone but it isn’t equivalent to the N word.

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      1 year ago

      I know 100% what you mean bro. There’s this word in Korean that’s a slang for blacks and isn’t appropriate but isn’t anything like the n-word, because it doesn’t have the cruel history/context behind it. But it didn’t stop idiotic Black American youtubers/tiktokers from making a dumbass social experiment videos acting like they’re the victims because such a word exists and getting confused Koreans to say it’s a translation of the n-word

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        1 year ago

        Yeah different cultures have different mindsets. Right or wrong I’m not going to discuss but things does get taken out of contex when you are from a different place, raised a different way etc.

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    1 year ago

    equivalent to the N-word (‘Ai Dam’)

    Is the pronunciation similar to the cheese Eidam? To avoid any awkward situations in the future

    • JazBKK@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      It’s pronounced like I - dam

      Would be E - dam like the cheese for a female. I is the male impolite version of ‘you’. ‘E’ is the impolite female form for ‘you’

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    1 year ago

    Well remind me to never ask for Dutch cheese in Thailand 😀 no but seriously that is unacceptable from the ref 😐 x

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      1 year ago

      Except the insults are towards the tan skinned Thai people, not towards the black race.

      Being tan in Thailand implies the person is ‘working under the sun’ like labourers or farmers class thus they have lower in social status.

      Its like calling someone redneck or homeless. Not race specific insult.

      The articles is wrong about the ref calling himself as a black race person, instead he call himself a lower working class people.

      One thing I hate about people on the internet is people who think the world revolved around them and their social problem applies everywhere in the planet. Black people barely exist in Thai, you’d think there’s a black race specific insults made there?

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      1 year ago

      Is there a threshold you need to reach in terms of skin color to identify as black? cause I know being black is about ethnicity not the skin color, referee subject aside, I find this whole “you don’t look black enough, or you’re not THAT black” argument to not make sense at all, I know many “blacks” who are more light skinned than that referee…

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    1 year ago

    equivalent to the N-word

    Not gonna defend the guy but I’m tired of reading shit like this. Slurs for the most part don’t have “equivalents.” They’re likely completely different words with completely different usage history even if both are meant to be offensive.

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    1 year ago

    The whole idiology of a term being racist as long as it’s used by someone with a certain skincolor, is very racist in my opinion. U can’t tell half the world its racist, while its a ‘slang’ for the other half of population