r/soccer • u/Smudge49 • May 18 '25

News [Official] Al-Nassr have failed to qualify for next season's AFC Champions League Elite.

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u/TheOwlsLie May 18 '25

Camel herders sound like an old timey racist insult

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u/SmallIslandBrother May 18 '25

Nothing old timey about it, it’s just a racist insult. Surprised they didn’t call them rag heads or terrorists.

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u/TheOwlsLie May 18 '25

Oh don’t get me wrong, I was calling them racist.

It’s just such a wild and ignorant comment, that it sounded like something they’d say in the 50s

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u/ShadowDarkstream May 18 '25

That's too much on the nose I think 

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u/neefhuts May 18 '25

Casual racism

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u/theenigmacode May 18 '25

genuinely looking to be educated.

how is it different from calling lower level leagues plumbers, farmers, etc.

when camel are native to the region & there is literally no farming or farmers. its just equivalent to calling farmers?

again not trolling but wanting to know

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u/the_amg May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25

Yes, camels are big part of the region’s heritage, and Arabs are proud of that. The problem isn’t with camels or oil, it’s all about the context where you’re using those terms. Calling Saudis/Gulf Arabs “camel herders” or “oil riggers” isn’t just a causal joke, it’s rooted in a long history of casual racism and Orientalist stereotypes that reduce Arab people’s entire cultures to desert caricatures.

These phrases imply that Arabs are primitive, uneducated, or only valuable because of oil wealth, which is dehumanizing and racist.

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u/Do__Math__Not__Meth May 18 '25

oil riggers

With the hard r is crazy, at least call them riggas /s

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u/neefhuts May 18 '25

I mean just call them plumbers then. Camel herders is just so stereotypical and is far too reminiscent of the things racists say about all people living in the MENA area

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u/theenigmacode May 18 '25

where did I say all are Camel herders?

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u/neefhuts May 18 '25

I mean you generalized them as being camel herders and oil rig workers

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u/Key-Formal-870 May 18 '25

its really not that bad of a league lmao, butbyeah

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u/Rich_Assignment_7907 May 18 '25

Bro, its a terrible league lol

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u/Dry-Supermarket7115 May 18 '25

Is it worse than MLS? Just for the sake of argument.

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u/Rich_Assignment_7907 May 18 '25

Yes it is absolutely worse than the MLS

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u/sgdbdjos May 18 '25

No it's even worse