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Did you boo Sam Mitchell in his final years at Hawthorn?
How many other indigenous players who've spoken out against racism get booed?
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Did you boo Sam Mitchell in his final years at Hawthorn?
How many other indigenous players who've spoken out against racism get booed?
Way to dodge the question.
You got the answer you deserved.
Yep fair enough I apologise for flippant remark.I really despise the way you and others like you try to insinuate I'm racist for posting my well-considered opinions on this topic.
Why would you post that comment above? Does it make you feel superior?
That's actually one of my issues with this whole debate. I see a bunch of people trying to feel superior by putting others down and labelling them as racist. It's just sad that people operate like that. Disappointing, I mean. You're supposed to be the socially aware person who wants the world to be a better place and yet you act like that.
Yes, I am nostalgic for going to suburban VFL football grounds in the 80's, but the feral behaviour and ignorant attitudes of footy fans was disgraceful. Even though such behaviour was normalised and it was less-enlightened times, it still shocked me as a wide-eyed kid. I was raised right by caring parents and encouraged to use my brain.
Mate you say you like to think critically, so I'm going to simply say that your bolded part represents exactly the fallacy at play here.No, you are right. It doesn't mean people should shut up about it.
But I'm expressing my opinion that people these days make mountains out of molehills. I don't mean Goodes. He can do whatever he likes. I just mean the way everyone reacted to him and his cause, both positive and negative. So laughably overblown.
There will always be racism on some levels. It will never be entirely eradicated. But I think we (as in society and the AFL) have done a good job of educating people and transforming AFL venues from a hotbed of ignorance and racism to somewhere you can bring your family and not have to cover your children's ears.
Indigenous players might still encounter racism here and there, but as shown by the record numbers of indigenous players in the AFL, it is somewhere they can actually flourish and make a success of their lives.
I don't think it does their cause any good to falsely label people as racist because they booed Goodes. At the time, it just hardened people's resolve and made the booing more persistent. It would've died a quick natural death if certain folks in the media weren't so intent on inflaming their audience and stirring up trouble. (Hello Caro, Robbo and Patrick Smith)
The documentary never once addressed the tribal nature of AFL barracking. They could've shown equally "disturbing" footage of Paddy Dangerfield being booed by 20,000 Port fans, or Gary Ablett being booed by 20,000 Hawk fans. This would've added some much-needed perspective. But it didn't fit their narrative of Goodes, the proud indigenous warrior taking a stand against racism.
So you chose to boo Goodes for his perceived sniping, diving, thug acts etc but chose not to boo others exhibiting the same floggish acts. Thanks, all the info I needed to make up my mind.
When was this?
I probably played footy with a few of them fellas. Its bulls**t whats happened in that town. We live in a police state.
I bood Lindsay Thomas
I bood Lindsay Thomas
Yeah, love acquiescence over kicking up a storm.Here's how a champion reacts to getting dropped:
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Need I remind everyone Goodes' response to merely being told he'd be the 'sub'....
So you chose to boo Goodes for his perceived sniping, diving, thug acts etc but chose not to boo others exhibiting the same floggish acts. Thanks, all the info I needed to make up my mind.
Mitchell was a renowned diver, flopper etc. was he? Never heard that criticism levelled at him before.
Some might've viewed a few of his acts as sniperish, but not even nearly similar to how Goodes was perceived.
See I thought someone would say something like this.Hardly a surprise coming from you lot. Windy Hill was a s**t place for a black kid to watch footy till Sheedy invented indigenous players. So for about a season.
The s**t he copped was as racist as anything Goodes copped. Commentators would call LTs plays differently to other peoples. Once Dunkley grabbed him round the throat in a tackle and dragged him to ground and the commentators were banging on about him ducking. It clearly wasn't but the knuckle headed utensil wombles on this site just repeated what the commentators told them. GIGO. That racist campaigner Bontempelli called Lachie Hunter ducking into a Thomas tackle malicious (cos no one questions an angry looking blackfella's inherent maliciousness) and got him suspended, the fu**en dog. No one in the AFL gave a fu**.
He got punched in the head in front of an umpire during one game looked at the ump expecting a free and the umpire laughed at him and said "yeah right, as if." A few weeks after Brad Scotts went off half cocked in the media so its kind of understandable behaviour for an entitled bald flog even if its completely wrong and against the spirit of what umpires are sposed to do. The double standard that applies to the way he is looked at compared to Goodes is endemic of what is wrong with indigenous relations in Australia. I know blackfellas who thought very little of Adam Goodes before he started speaking out who would describe Linds as not pretty enough or subservient enough to get a fair go from the umps. Angry looking fella and actually too shy to speak in public so everyone assumed he was a campaigner. After all we all know black people are more likely to be campaigners than shy and overly respectful off the field.
Class.Here's how a champion reacts to getting dropped:
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Need I remind everyone Goodes' response to merely being told he'd be the 'sub'....
He he. I like that how all the booers set themselves up against “the media”. It assumes the media is a monolith. There was plenty of media that sounded like the s**t I’m reading in this thread and all those who say they are “thinking for themselves against a PC media” were probably gobbling up Andrew Bolt’s bulls**t every day.
Putting aside racism (which is hard) this became bullying behaviour
The saddest thing in the doco was watching him booed all the way to the final siren of his last game.
It was like dumb school yard stuff. He said it was upsetting him so people did it more. It’s actually really f’ed up
Goodes story to go global as NBA star Ben Simmons jumps on board
Arent we all foreigners?Oh good, foreigners can boo the flog too.
See I thought someone would say something like this.
Your first response is instantly “RACISM WHOOAA” *massive monologue*
Dude, he was a diving spud who almost single handedly created contact below the knees, an awful rule.
But everything is always conflated and boiled down to someone’s skin colour.
That doesn’t mean s**t.
Just like I hate Sam Mitchell