Mega Thread The Adam Goodes Megathread - Now with Added Poll!

Why are crowds booing Goodes?

  • Racism

    Votes: 565 29.9%
  • He's perceived as a dirty player

    Votes: 563 29.8%
  • He's perceived as making a team game all about himself

    Votes: 758 40.1%
  • Because everyone else is booing, I thought I'd join in - like a Mexican wave thing

    Votes: 268 14.2%
  • Because Gillon doesnt want them to

    Votes: 135 7.2%
  • I have no idea

    Votes: 74 3.9%
  • Other

    Votes: 183 9.7%
  • His onfield message is at odds with his off field one

    Votes: 233 12.3%
  • He can do no wrong with the MRP

    Votes: 164 8.7%
  • I was saying Boo-Urns?

    Votes: 61 3.2%
  • Jack Watts

    Votes: 56 3.0%

  • Total voters
    1,888
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subaru

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If their actions arising from that ignorance are wilfully nasty, yes.

Sorry, I just dropped in on your conversation with a general comment and don't even know specifically what you guys were discussing. Carry on.
How - if you're ignorant of a fact- can you then be "willfully " nasty ?

If you take her at her word - just for a minute - stay with me on this - if you believe she did not know ape was a racial slur , the only thing she is guilty of is being a rude
loudmouth smart arse kid .

And ... stay with me still here .... Without wanting to cast any aspersions - she was a Collingwood supporter .... she had probably heard much much worse at the footy before the ape comment came out if her mouth
 

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Yes, Andrew Bolt's dignified silence on the subject has been so inspirational and impressive.

Cuts both ways you know. You may say what you want about Adam Goodes but to suggest only one side is fanning the flames of this imbroglio is just ignorant, or fatally biased.
It's fairly obvious that the media created this monster in the first place.
 

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But just to be clear, calling an indigenous person an ape is racial abuse. End of story.
The girl may not have known ( I call BS) but that doesn't change the fact that it is racial abuse.
Among the more stupid things I've read in my life tbh.

I just can't accept this. My experience in establishing common ground with people of different cultural perceptions screams to me that inflexibility like this is most counter-productive (not to mention pretty arrogant).
 

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Can we have a filter for SJW please?

What pillock came up with this abbreviation?
It is used by bigots of every flavour to shout down anyone with the opinion that the world would be a better place if bigots kept their views to themselves. It is apparently the worst insult one person can say to another.
 

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You're repeating his sentiments.
You've missed my point then

Unlike me , he made no allowance for the fact that she may NOT have meant it to be racist

He immediately presumed she meant it in a racial context

No investigation - no contact with her - very happy to run with " call racism where I see it " story straight after the game

Had all night and the best he could do was maintain that she was racist the next day to a full press conference
 

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It is used by bigots of every flavour to shout down anyone with the opinion that the world would be a better place if bigots kept their views to themselves. It is apparently the worst insult one person can say to another.
Oh come on. You're a bigot if you're sick of the perpetually outraged? SJW is fine.
 
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