Patrick van Aanholt was subjected to racist abuse on social media following Crystal Palace's goalless draw with Manchester United on Wednesday.
The Crystal Palace defender, 30, shared a post captioned "Why we kneel" after racist messages were sent to him on Instagram.
He becomes the latest in a growing list of professional footballers to have suffered racist abuse in recent weeks.
In February, Chelsea's Antonio Rudiger and Reece James, Manchester United Women's Lauren James and Manchester United's Axel Tuanzebe were among those to have been targeted on social media platforms.
Instagram have previously reiterated to Sky Sports News that they are prepared to enforce tougher penalties on those who contravene their community standards by posting abusive messages.
The platform can restrict messages and delete the accounts of offending users.
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Raedksy
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The more one speaks about racist remarks the more these racist will spit their trash. Remember if I insult you just because I think you did not have a good game without bringing race into it and you pull the race card then I am afraid you have yourself to blame. The answers to this statement will bring out some racists who think they can use racist remarks as long as they do not use it against blacks. Have a good day.
Fushazz
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can you explain the meaning of this?...I am led to think its racist
no, that text is a mock up of white supremacists who think everything is color. it's not to demean anyone but to mock anyone with those kind of sentiments. what the text means is that if ur a white supremacist, then imagine a world where everything was in one color! even u would not want that. there is variety in life and different colors make the world so beautiful.. if the universe wanted just one color it would have done so. no one skin color is better than another. hope u understand now.
FaithEvans
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Many of our religious beliefs have racist undertones, some people still believe that some white dude will come out of the sky and make them fly up into oxygenless space... they call it rapture Those people don't deserve an audience whatsoever.
Laqaxette
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can you explain the meaning of this?...I am led to think its racist
Lfclegend
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I have respect for both white and black people all lives matter
RaiyanHasib
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what is this ?
nimimruyz
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if you are a blackman playing for most of these teams you got to be perfect and that's impossible. Cowards hiding behind social media. Respect
Fushazz
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vuploruz
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more lies, this is all engineered. there using this bull shit to erode freedom of speech. that's all this is about. Just delete social media problem fucking solved.
hmmmmm, you sound like one.
adanzu
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again when it will be stopped π π π π π π π π π π π π π π
haha ha city on the way
zetcdlotyz
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more lies, this is all engineered. there using this bull shit to erode freedom of speech. that's all this is about. Just delete social media problem fucking solved.
momabelop
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again when it will be stopped π π π π π π π π π π π π π π