j_tig said:1) how does it border on racism? they basically accussed all dogs fans of being thugs and it is only other peoples assumptions / biases / stereotypes that implies to some people that only dogs fans of a certain racial background are violent
2) the date rape drugs would be referencing coffs harbour? once again how is this racial?
Why would the date rape drugs be in reference to Coffs? Some Bulldogs players were accused of rape at the beginning of 2004. What has that got to do with the sterotypical Bulldogs fan in mid 2006? As I've said, it's a much shorter bow to link date rape drugs to lebanese people and lebanese people to Dogs fans. Much shorter, and quite offensive really. I guess the main point is that, regardless of what the drugs were in reference to, you'd have to agree that the lebanese Dogs supporters could easily have thought it was a shot at them.
Anyway...now I'm really not going anywhere else.