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The Irish reaction to the song was testy enough without taking into account the crucial role that Declan Rice and Jack Grealish will play in England if they win the World Cup.

Both have represented the Boys in Green at youth level, with Rice playing a friendly with the senior team.

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When Roy Keane, who was Ireland’s assistant coach during the Rice disaster, spoke about Jamal Musiala’s decision to play for Germany rather than England, he said he still remembered it.

He said: “The media asks you a question and you joke with them, but of course he’s just a boy and learning his craft.”

“It’s a great place to learn, he plays so often, but it would be good for England to get a taste of their own medicine.”

“They took players; Rice, Grealish – don’t get me started. It’s not easy when players make that decision.” The BBC summed it up when they played the Pogues song “Differential Rules”, the song contains homophobic and misogynistic slurs. Radio 1, Radio 2 and Radio 6 decision on listeners’ music considerations

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The culture clash over the Pogues song “Fairytale of New York” feels like a new Christmas tradition, like a Lindt chocolate Santa, but homophobic. In this year’s edition, Radio 1 has removed two offensive words from the recordings played, but Radio 2 will continue to play the original content; Radio 6 Music DJs can choose between recordings.

This long-standing debate grows more tiresome every year, but simply put: the proliferation of abuse against LGBTQ+ people, particularly on mainstream platforms such as BBC Radio, is unacceptable. The song is not completely banned and should not be banned, but we should not accept vilification of any kind – especially in this case when the re-recorded 1992 version contains perfectly acceptable alternative lyrics.

As a young person, it is frustrating to see that this step is not being implemented across all BBC radio stations. I welcome Radio 1’s move and understand that it will be necessary to make different decisions based on the expectations of each station’s audience. But the BBC’s sweeping decision turns homophobia into a generational problem. By choosing to continue playing the uncensored version of the song on Radio 2 and Radio 6 Music, Radio 1’s listeners, who are largely Generation Z, will face targeted criticism online and be perceived as homogenous. We are all labeled as “snowflakes”, very sensitive and childish, which distracts from a debate that should be about respecting those who are offended by insults, regardless of age.

The BBC’s lack of rigor on this matter puts those outraged by these pejorative terms in a difficult position, seeing them as censors incapable of dealing with complex art. I think it’s an intellectual and moral failure to say that songs should be immune to homophobic slurs – you can have complex art without them. Why do you want to hear that word so badly? Why are you too angry to sing loudly? Why does this topic spark such intense and profound debate year after year?

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I’m sure other younger listeners know that the insults in this song are old slang and a product of their time, but the actual use of those words – oppression – is the only thing that matters in this debate.

It’s easy to say that “Faggot” and “Slut” by the Pogues can be sung on Radio 2 but not on Radio 1, what an inconsistency. So can we first acknowledge that there is an important consistency in the BBC’s decision? This time the focus is not only on homophobic but also misogynistic epithets. It permeates our rape culture and is repeated so often in pornography that it becomes white noise. “Slut” echoed on the playground, almost the same age – eighth grade? 7th grade? – when the little boy hears “faggot” as a prelude to the punch.

But hate changes with age. Until I was around 30, as a visible homosexual person, insults and violence were the order of the day for me: I was persecuted, threatened, and taken to hospital. After 30? What you need to pay attention to are not the obvious word-for-word insults, but the arguments concocted by political and religious leaders, inspired by promises of money and power, and presented in a way that sounds reasonable and morally sound.

Social attitude surveys also show that homophobia is directly proportional to age: your grandfather is more likely than your classmates to think you’re gay, but he might not say it to your face. So if there’s one group of people who shouldn’t hear the words “fag” and “bitch”, it’s Radio 2 viewers aged 40 and over who, like me, grew up in a time when Radio 1’s DJs refused to play Relax. Frankie went to Hollywood because the celebration of sodomy was too much for his fragile heterosexuality.

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