Do people truly think that a just turned 13 year old could possibly have known that when she yelled ape at Adam Goodes that it would hit him like a 1 tonne racial slur of bricks? I know it must be impossible or outside reality that a child could look at Adam Goodes and think he looks like an ape for no other reason than she think he looks like an ape, as in monkey that she has probably learnt about at primary school. She didn't know the full extent and consequence of what she was saying. This is not the point. The point is Adam should have known this, being an adult who probably has kids himself. 13 year olds also do not fully understand the myriad of different sexuality and the slur words that go with that. Yet they will still sling those words around. How many thirteen year olds among us knew up to thousands of years of human race relations and the words that go with all of it and the meaning etc? Do you think that Australia's horrid past is copy and pasted into young peoples minds through govt education? Hell no! I finished school in 2007 and learnt/taught **** all about indigenous issues. IMO racism only largely exists institutionally now and that's the problem, not little girls saying ape, not at your local footy club, not with boos. Adam Goodes truly felt like his identity and race was attacked by a girl who wouldn't even partially understand race issues at all. Yes it must have hurt him ofc but maybe someone has to be the adult here and get on with it and see it for what it was and from where it came (name calling from a little girl) not what it could possibly, maybe, be, Yet Isn't (purposeful racially motivated slur from little girl who knew or didnt know either way lets slam her), oh yeh that adult is Goodes. Does anyone get a chance to learn things without a public shame session as a child? Is that meant to bring us all together or some shit? **** sake. If you get upset about what a 13 year old says to you then your a child yourself. If you try and spin what a child said to you as racially motivated and instigate a public commentary about it, your a douchebag.