Zero Responsibility, Dog Whistle- Nil By Mouth call out Sevco over double standards
Nil by Mouth has become the first public body to call out Sevco after they included The Famine Song as the backdrop to their latest kit launch.
For over a decade the Beach Boys classic Sloop John B (I Wanna Go Home) has been adapted by the Ibrox support to celebrate and mock The Irish Famine which resulted in over one million deaths in the middle of the 19th century.
The song is rarely heard at football matches but at the end of August hundreds of Ibrox fans marched through Glasgow city centre chanting the song demanding that people of Irish decent are removed from Scotland.
Yesterday that tune was included in a club video for a new kit launch with Nil By Mouth calling it out as a wolf-whistle to those that were marching through the city to the same tune.
1/3 The laudable mission statement from Rangers ‘Everyone, Anyone’ campaign. The question the club has to answer today: does using the tune to what has sadly become in Scotland ‘The Famine Song’ on an official video live up to a single letter of it? pic.twitter.com/JLek612lCz
— Nil By Mouth (@NBMScotland) October 15, 2021
2/3 You can’t call for action on racism one week then blow the dog whistle for bigotry the next. It’s beyond comprehension that anyone at the club would think was a good idea – this is a song that results in criminal prosecutions – most recently in September.
— Nil By Mouth (@NBMScotland) October 15, 2021
3/3 By doing this Rangers aren’t showing ‘zero tolerance’ but ‘zero responsibility’ and that can’t be allowed to happen in 21st century Scotland.
— Nil By Mouth (@NBMScotland) October 15, 2021