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You are missing the point. I never said ignore the problem. I'm just saying it's not "out of hand".
Look at it this way: What do you want UEFA to do?
Picture this:
Britain, 1980's: John Barnes comes off the pitch after enduring monkey chants from the crowd. A good section of the British public (i.e. the majority) don't like them coons. Not one little bit. They come over here, take our jobs and steal our stuff. They sure can play footie tho. Must be all the running away from the lions.
So what happens? Arrests? Banning/stopping of matches?
No, that'd be stupid. Imbecilic. You can't arrest people for how they feel. There'll be riots.
What happens is that the media quietly goes into overdrive. Gently, gently does it. Over generations. An increasing number of black news presenters, more minorities represented in all forms of media. Interracial kissing on the telly ffs! What will they think of next?!
30 years later and the population in the same country that Barnsey was monkey'd-at are calling for matches to be stopped and "it's out of hand" OMG RACIZT0RZ!!11 yadda-yadda-yadda - all because monkey-chants are being directed at players in Poland and Ukraine.
Chill. It's being handled, not ignored. Their media is doing to them what our media has done to us - and it works.
No point in overreacting. Softly-softly does it. People don't like being told how they should feel. Those attitudes will slowly die out. Literally...
In the meantime, some black players will have to (unjustly) suffer monkey chanting. There's not much you can do about that in the short term. At least nowadays when they've finished playing they can get in their Bentleys and drive home to their mansions and supermodel girlfriends in England and Spain and pickup sportsman of the year awards, do celebrity television work and receive the adulation of the masses...
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