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Re:To End Soccer Riots, Brazilian Club Forces Fans to Sit Ne... by Sanddancer on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @03:14PM (#9694606)
Beautifully done. Break down the norms of having the fans shouting at a muddied "them," and possibly start some good long-lasting friendships. I also think that Recife's idea of having mothers of troublemakers, as was linked to [1] is also a pretty clever way of keeping things from getting out of hand. It is rather heartening to see new ways of enforcing civility that aren't based around the use of force.

[1] http://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/brazilian-soccer-club-dep...

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Re:To End Soccer Riots, Brazilian Club Forces Fans to Sit Ne... by walshemj on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @04:43PM (#9695213)
Oh dear I can't see this ending well most country's teams that have "ultras" and high levels of violence - there is an underlying political and in some cases religious tradition gong back in some cases 100's of years.
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Re:To End Soccer Riots, Brazilian Club Forces Fans to Sit Ne... by dmckeon on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @07:22PM (#9696333)
For a dark perspective on this sort of issue (UK, not SA): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Among_the_Thugs
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Re:To End Soccer Riots, Brazilian Club Forces Fans to Sit Ne... by smcl on Thursday June 11, 2015 @05:03AM (#9698530)
Right, this is the first thing I thought. For your average-to-serious supporter this will stop them getting swept up in singing (for example) sectarian songs, but Ultras are probably not blessed with this sort of conscientiousness and rational thought.
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Re:To End Soccer Riots, Brazilian Club Forces Fans to Sit Ne... by pnevmatico on Thursday June 11, 2015 @12:37AM (#9697591)
Reddit would do well to learn from it. Force fatpeoplehate and fatacceptance to post in the same subreddit.
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Re:To End Soccer Riots, Brazilian Club Forces Fans to Sit Ne... by parwell on Thursday June 11, 2015 @02:16AM (#9697940)
/r/fatpeoplehate has been banned, so I'm afraid it's too late for that.
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