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[quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingSoccerDad]I think the difficulty here is determining how much we can extrapolate from anecdotes. I'm not sure there's any way to do a full survey. You can ask parents, but I guarantee you'll also find white parents who think they get the worst of the officiating. (Granted, 95% of them are whining.)
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This is exactly the problem.  Refs make bad calls all the time.  In some cases, they make a dozen or more bad calls in a single game.  Even more frequently, spectators think the ref made a bad call.  Our troll here sees a bad call which goes against a black kid or a hispanic kid and ascribes it to racism - and from there wants to generalize and make this out to be a huge problem.

It isn't a huge problem.  It's not even a tiny problem.

On the other hand parents whining is a problem.  White parents, black parents, hispanic parents - pretty much any parents.  And lets be honest, it's not just parents.  It's a significant fraction of people who watch any sporting contest whatsoever when they have an emotional interest in the result.  The ref is always crooked, and he's always calling for the other team.[/quote]

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