If stupidity ever becoe a crime mate
Or maybe he is a moral coward as well as being a racist. And is too gutless to admit his bigotry. A lot of it going on around here.
Mate it all changes once they run around in your jumper, I used to freaking hate Burgoyne as Port regularly tear us a new one.
When did Goodes say that?
That initial quote from Goodes appears at odds with your memory of it.
There were plenty of people here on Big Footy (and on talkback radio) who didn't know the word "ape" had an historical racist connotation. That became pretty clear in the aftermath. Maybe it's a cultural thing here in Australia - a racist epithet that went out of vogue years ago.
Thanks to west coast
I reckon the AOTY was about bad timing. Goodes is very far from the worse recipient of that award. If awarded it after his retirement in a different year the reaction would have probably been very different.
Idk, that's a good point, but I find it difficult to believe that ignorant, racist, footy-loving Australian's pick-and-choose who they racially abuse (by way of booing, mind you) solely on the basis of the threat they pose, and the ability they possess to subvert, the white colonial narrative. We aren't talking about culturally intellectual neo-facists who want to tacitly maintain the status-quo here, we're talking about dumb, footballing crowds. The notion that the footballing community collectively looked at Lumumba and decided "no, he doesn't pose a risk to the cultural norm, we won't boo him (of all things)" and then turned to Goodes and thought the opposite, seems absurd. Such a collectivisation would have to require an intellectual backing and institutionalisation of footballing racism that I'm not too sure the crowd who is booing Goodes necessarily possess. I'm inclined to argue that if abuse of Goodes was solely racially motivated then Lumumba's activism and Thomas' anti-sociable football would have also drawn the same vehement ire of a footy public that surely only represents the barbaric polities of a conventional and ignorant manifestation of racism - i.e. any minority who steps out of line (irritates them etc.) will be abused until they learn their place again. This just simply hasn't happened has it? The booing of Goodes is far more complicated than it initially presents (that's likely why Bigfooty seems so far off coming to a consensus concerning its genesis). Whilst it seems like I'm sitting on the fence here, I think a cauldron of near-all the factors mentioned in the poll have contributed to the booing of Goodes - its unique, that's likely why we haven't quite witnessed such a sustained attack on any one single player like this for quite some time. One thing I don't disagree with is that there are racist elements to this issue, whilst some of those who are booing may not be motivated by any racial undertones, others certainly and disgustingly are. That's probably why this will be a particularly difficult issue to resolve peacefully, because the motivation for the booing is relatively multi-plural - some feel aggrieved and are genuine when they say they aren't booing Goodes because of the colour of his skin, and others simply don't care that they are racially abusing him because to them he's getting what he deserves.
Actually wouldn't mind Crowley before drugs.
Its 2015.
Ballantyne no worries, but Stevie J will test me....And the other two?
