Abstract
No Place for Racism
Highlights
It has become customary to say that racism has no place in something – in sport, in our organisation, in 2020, in society
The formula has something irresistible about it; when anyone wants to make their abhorrence of racism publicly clear, these are the words that are likely to spring to their lips
‘Place’ adds a faint territorial metaphor, as if the organisation is a landscape where racism, like an escaped criminal, is seeking refuge in vain. He will not elude us; we will look behind every bush! This hyperbolic assurance is amplified, too, by the impersonal form of the statement: the speaker does not promise to deny racism a place, but states absolutely that it does not have one
Summary
It has become customary to say that racism has no place in something – in sport, in our organisation, in 2020, in society. This hyperbolic assurance is amplified, too, by the impersonal form of the statement: the speaker does not promise to deny racism a place, but states absolutely that it does not have one.
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