Italian Marquez fans to skip Mugello due to "safety concerns"

#22 said:

There's a difference between criticising someone online J4rno and any or all of the following:

1. Booing a rider at a charity event
2. Spitting and throwing things at a rider (claimed by Stoner)
3. Going to a riders place of residence to hurl verbal abuse
4. Starting online petitions to get another rider to crash/hurt one
5. Attempting to infiltrate a certain riders pit garage with ill intent.

Name one poster on here who has done any one of the above? **Insert smug smiley here**

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What you mention is either hooliganism or idiocy, not vilification.
Vilification means to slander, besmear, calumniate, negate any merit, and that's abundantly done from behind computer screens in inter anonimity. "Criticising" is quite another matter, but it requires the rare gift of fairness, doesn't it.

MM certainly has deservedly received considerable criticism over various incidents in both his MotoGP career and in his GP career prior to that. I myself, and even your bete noir Jumkie, criticised him for the last lap attempted pass at Assen, and for injudiciously throwing his bike down the road in multiple early season races, not that the latter harmed any other rider.


What, however did he do late season which deserved criticism? I don't recall him taking any other riders out in the late season races, nor making any self serving accusations which brought the sport into disrepute in any press conferences. He is also receiving what qualifies as vilification by any definition from many other quarters/at many places other than here.