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Luis Suarez may be many things, but he is (probably) not racist – a translator’s view

25/6/2014

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Many people may think that this ship has sailed, but I have felt strongly about this for a long time now, and the straw on the camel’s back came after the Luis Suarez biting incident, when a friend of mine posted:

“What a horrible person Suarez is - and on top of that he’s racist”

In this post I would like to briefly present the argument that Luis Suarez is not racist. Or at least, that we have no evidence to suggest he is. I will try and justify my argument from a cultural linguistic perspective. But first, let me present a little bit about myself, so you can judge the extent to which what I say might be worth taking into consideration.

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