A). Who cares? Nothing of great consequence happened, and most fans embraced it as fantastic shithousery. In this context, "equal treatment" would mean that Alex Morgan's much, much, much less sensitive celebration wouldn't even have registered on people's radars. Also, love that usage of whatabout there; like somehow that was an irrelevant example to bring up when the person I responded to was literally basing their entire argument around the idea that this just isn't a thing that happens...
B). Yes, the context was different. A horrible, conflicted history vs. a minor English stereotype and popular tea memes. I find it hard to understand why you're apparently more comfortable with the former being invoked in a football match than the latter.
It's not like aynthing is actually happening to the US players beyond a few newspapers and fans complaining that the celebrations were classless.
whereas the examples brought up did actually have conesquences for the people involved. I'm saying comparing children of refugees doing something out of political conviction, whether right of wrong, is not the example to bring up when discussing how much shittalk is okay.
Also lol@ fans "embracing the shithousery". That is not what happened.