Ahmad · @ChieflySarcastc
10th Jul 2016 from TwitLonger
Thoughts on the #WeAreAllLeoMessi campaign
There were too many comments regarding the #WeAreAllLeoMessi campaign. Most of these comments were filled with hate for Barcelona for supporting a criminal and therefore supporting the actual criminal act. No one would actually support the act let alone a huge club which needs to maintain an image. So what's left is supporting a criminal. Also not happening for the same reason. So what is the club doing? The club is supporting a player who had absolutely no hand in this criminal act. Messi was out his entire life playing football while others took care of the paper work and this shouldn't be a surprise in 2016. Much like any celebrity they'd tell him "sign here, here, and here". And you gotta trust those who are closest to you.
People have gone out on this hashtag to express their anger in how a club so big can almost applaud fraud and some took it too personal: "A punch in the face of ppl who do hard work on a low pay and yet still pay their taxes".
Another tweet mentioned "For the past 9 years Spain's youth have suffered terrible unemployment & deprivation"
Way to put things into perspective and not overreacting at all lads.
Overall people who pay taxes, pretty much all of us, have took this pretty personal. In reality however, Leo Messi wasn't involved in human trafficking on the coast of Mexico nor was he sniffing cocaine off of women's bodies while fist bumping Ted Bundy.
Much like it was expected throughout, Messi(the actual player) had so little to do with any of this. Messi the entity, the superstar, the worldwide figure and the 'team' behind him who helped create him, had A LOT to do with it.
So you have a lot of anger inside of you because you wanted justice? That's beautiful. But why get yourself so confused regarding who your anger should be targeted at? Not only did Messi not commit any crime, the man doesn't even have time to commit it nor is it of any value to him personally(his father is a different story).
Suddenly everyone lost all sense of what's happening because of the #WeAreAllLeoMessi campaign and didn't even care to read the facts. Lionel Messi became a symbol of injustice in the world, a symbol of unemployment, a symbol of a suffering economy, and a symbol of inequality.
Again, way to put things in perspective lads.
There will always be Leo Messi the superstar and Leo Messi the individual/footballer. Leo Messi the superstar will/should handle full responsibility for what happened. And Leo Messi the superstar is never just one person. The other Leo Messi simply had/has no idea what's actually going on.
Going over the tweets that involved this hashtag, you'd realize that Messi suddenly represented a major problem in people's lives and it's the issue of how they make a living. This was drastically blown out of proportion because people need to put their anger out on a millionaire who 'committed' such a crime but in reality whether Leo was earning 2,000 euros per week or countless millions and getting paid from countries all around the world, one thing hasn't changed over the years: Messi generally has no fucking clue and no fucking interest in taxes and nor will he ever really...
The campaign is wrong and so poorly put. But the show of support for a footballing icon who was screwed over by 'his people'(much like thousands of cases around the world) isn't wrong.