Eels Dude
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If you think dedicating one's life to a particular faith (whether or not folks on here think it's lame or not) is the same as getting some juvenile tattoos on your arms (as opposed to Polynesians getting traditional Polynesian tattoos etc) then you're wrong.
Regardless, as has been stated, there are laws in this country relating to discrimination etc that do dictate what is and isn't important.
Agreed. For some tattoos aren't just a picture on the arm. I know people with tattoos that sybolise deceased loved ones, their family crests, cultural background. That's just as important to them as religion is to others. Yet if someone complains they were sledged about a tattoo it wouldn't be taken seriously at all.
I'll repost my above post for your benefit. Who's to know what a particular tattoo symbolises? For all you know Todd Carney or any other Australian born players tattoos are just as significant to them via cultural or family reasons as the Polynesians tattoos are to them. You shouldn't just assume they mean nothing or are 'juvenile' as you put it just because they look that way.
What you're basically saying it's ok to sledge players of European descent about their tattoos, but it's not not ok to sledge Polynesian players about theirs. You've really backed yourself into a corner here and contradicted yourself. Congratulations.