John Barnes: Liverpool's Greatest Footballer on Racism & Free Speech

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Rob Moore

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🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Famous footballer John Barnes joins the podcast for a second time to be interviewed. John talks to Rob honestly and openly in this nothing-off-limits interview, including why many people are racists, free speech and why context and nuance are everything. John reveals: Why we are all biased, be it due to race, sex or religion Why people are wrong about Liam Neeson His thoughts on Megan Markle and the press What real freedom of speech is Also featured Rob and John’s thoughts on the uncomfortable truth about racism Why politics should be kept out of Sport How and why John would amend footballers' pay BEST MOMENTS “I’m not racist, I’m not homophobic but in many respects, we are all one of those things to a certain degree and that’s the uncomfortable truth” “It’s absolving the people who can really do something, from doing something” “Salary cap would be the best thing for football” VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter https://robmoore.com/podbooks rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “The Disruptive Entrepreneur” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

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0:00.0	Because it's such a horrible world racism that people just turn away from it straight away.
0:03.4	They go, I'm not racist or I'm not sexist, I'm not homophobic.
0:06.1	But in many respects, we are all one of those things for a certain degree.
0:10.5	John, what is the uncomfortable truth about racism?
0:15.6	There isn't one uncomfortable truth.
0:17.3	But I think the main thing is that we all have to understand,
0:19.8	and when I say racism is about bias generally,
0:21.6	so it could be sexism, homophobia.
0:24.2	Not just from a gender point of view,
0:25.8	but really just bias is the fact that we are all biased,
0:29.0	be it race, sex, religion, to a certain extent.
0:33.6	So it's not binary, it's not either we are or we aren't.
0:37.2	Because we are all to a certain extent,
0:39.8	because of the way we have been conditioned to think,
0:41.8	not just from also politically.
0:43.4	So I don't know why it is...
0:45.8	Because it's such a horrible world racism that people just turn away from it straight away.
0:49.4	They go, I'm not racist or I'm not sexist, I'm not homophobic.
0:52.6	But in many respects, we are all one of those things for a certain degree.
0:56.2	And that's the uncomfortable truth
0:57.2	because we want to think that if you're racist,
0:59.6	you have to remember the Ku Klux Klan,
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