JT and GI to lead NRL support for Adam Goodes by performing Aboriginal War Dance

[BunniesMan]

The Telegraph is mostly read by bogan mouthbreathers so that's unsurprising.

And the home of Andrew Bolt. Chief Cheerleader of the mob arguing unless people are waving swastikas and marching you to concentration camps, it's not racism.

I am an immigrant from England and I am white and personally I find Australia to be far less racist than England

Whenever I go home I get all manner of people desperate to tell me how shit England is because of the immigrants and how I was lucky to move to Australia.

I never come across this same attitude in Australia

However a friend of mine, a muslim female who lived in Oldham in the UK for many years has the opposite experience. She rarely comes across racist attitudes in the UK, but experiences open racism on a frequent basis here in Australia.

I don't think it's easy to say who is right. But I will say that the UK is far more racist in my experience now than it was 20 years ago

I think every western country has this trend. Before the internet people had racist thoughts but they were forced to keep them to themselves and didn't have an anonymous outlet where they could easily find people just like them and hold onto these thoughts day in and day out for a long time. The only media was 3 tv channels that were careful with political correctness.

Now with the internet they find echo chambers where their extreme thoughts are validated by other idiots.

 

[Lambretta]

The Telegraph is mostly read by bogan mouthbreathers so that's unsurprising.

:lol: you beat me to it mate

If you want to come along to the Roosters v Dogs game tomorrow night, let me know

Beers at the Keg and Brew after work at 5.30pm

 

[Lambretta]

And the home of Andrew Bolt. Chief Cheerleader of the mob arguing unless people are waving swastikas and marching you to concentration camps, it's not racism.

I think every western country has this trend. Before the internet people had racist thoughts but they were forced to keep them to themselves and didn't have an anonymous outlet where they could easily find people just like them and hold onto these thoughts day in and day out for a long time. The only media was 3 tv channels that were careful with political correctness.

Now with the internet they find echo chambers where their extreme thoughts are validated by other idiots.

BunniesMan you have just managed to make sense twice in one post

There is hope for humanity after all

 

[God-King Dean]

and when you're agreeing with BunniesMan....

 

[Cletus]

And the home of Andrew Bolt. Chief Cheerleader of the mob arguing unless people are waving swastikas and marching you to concentration camps, it's not racism.

I think every western country has this trend. Before the internet people had racist thoughts but they were forced to keep them to themselves and didn't have an anonymous outlet where they could easily find people just like them and hold onto these thoughts day in and day out for a long time. The only media was 3 tv channels that were careful with political correctness.

Now with the internet they find echo chambers where their extreme thoughts are validated by other idiots.

Are you seriously suggesting racism didn't exist before the internet? So careful with political correctness they had Ted Bullpitt and Alf Garnett? If anything I think society in general is far less racist than 50 years ago, just because some peanuts can express there racist views on the internet makes society more racist than when aboriginals couldn't vote and the US was segregated.

 

[BunniesMan]

Are you seriously suggesting racism didn't exist before the internet? So careful with political correctness they had Ted Bullpitt and Alf Garnett? If anything I think society in general is far less racist than 50 years ago, just because some peanuts can express there racist views on the internet makes society more racist than when aboriginals couldn't vote and the US was segregated.

I was comparing the recent pre internet era to now. Say the 80s and 90s compared to now where it seems things have gone backwards. Obviously it's not as bad as 50 and 100 and 150 years ago, but IMO worse than 20 years ago.

 

[Cletus]

I was comparing the recent pre internet era to now. Say the 80s and 90s compared to now where it seems things have gone backwards. Obviously it's not as bad as 50 and 100 and 150 years ago, but IMO worse than 20 years ago.

Well I disagree completely. I think there is less racism now than 20 years ago, you'll always have racism in any culture but it isn't as in your face as it used to be.

 

[roostersrule2]

I was comparing the recent pre internet era to now. Say the 80s and 90s compared to now where it seems things have gone backwards. Obviously it's not as bad as 50 and 100 and 150 years ago, but IMO worse than 20 years ago.

Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, your opinion man.

 

[some11]

And the home of Andrew Bolt. Chief Cheerleader of the mob arguing unless people are waving swastikas and marching you to concentration camps, it's not racism.

I think every western country has this trend. Before the internet people had racist thoughts but they were forced to keep them to themselves and didn't have an anonymous outlet where they could easily find people just like them and hold onto these thoughts day in and day out for a long time. The only media was 3 tv channels that were careful with political correctness.

Now with the internet they find echo chambers where their extreme thoughts are validated by other idiots.

More of this from you from now on.

 

[Banana Peel]

Pfft.

It's an AFL issue.

They're doing a good job ripping one another apart.

Sit back and enjoy.

 

[Banana Peel]

Some great theatre will be coming our way.

Will vigilante Swans supporters throw eggs at people who boo?

Will players who perform the spear throwing dance be met with people in the crowd who pretend to fire a musket aka 'The Colonial'?

Can we expect fights to break out in the stands?

Should, as the AFLPA has suggested, people dob-in-a-booer; will booers be frogmarched from their seats and charged with a hate crime?

Mate against mate. Race against race.

It's gonna be riveting.

Get the popcorn out.

 

[POPEYE]

Indigenous Australians should consider themselves lucky, been a long time since the main weekend sport in this country was Shoot a Blackfella. When that went out of fashion stealing their children was all the go, but even the next phase of filling them with piss to keep them alienated is no fault of this generation of 'Australians'

How the f**k can we be held responsible for the past, imagining that we should have any extra compassion for Indigenous Australians today is ludicrous . . . it's not as though they're in danger of drowning

 

[Penrose Warrior]

Wow. Popeye is an apologist for a club of blatant cheats but not for a culture ripped a new anus by his white ancestors.

NZ is the land of the long white cloud and as I've discovered after 2.5 years living there, Australia is generally the land of the long white crowd. Let the blacks live decently and the gays get married on someone else's property.

 

[POPEYE]

Wow. Popeye is an apologist for a club of blatant cheats but not for a culture ripped a new anus by his white ancestors.

NZ is the land of the long white cloud and as I've discovered after 2.5 years living there, Australia is generally the land of the long white crowd. Let the blacks live decently and the gays get married on someone else's property.

You're dumber than I imagined . . . how many other people reading my post will fail to see the sarcasm

 

[POPEYE]

By the way, I'll never apologise for what the Storm had to do

 

[Phil McGrawhan]

For someone who encounters racism every day you probably wouldn't appreciate how amazing this moment was, that someone finally stood up and had the courage to say that racism should never be allowed to be accepted and calling out anyone that promotes racism

I have no respect for him at all .
You may think that was an amazing moment ,fair enough .
It probably could have been handled better,seeing as it was an uneducated 13 yr old bogan .

My issue with Goodes is he pointed out a 13 yr old on TV ,a big deal was made of him being called an "APE".

Yet a few days later when on radio a high powered high ranking Aflol boss made a joke about King Kong/ Goodes ,then suddenly the fight against Racism wasn't important anymore .
He dogged it.
He was lauded for his stand against racism ,got Aust of the yr ,yet when it came to the AFL he chose to not rock the boat, not damage the"Image" anymore.

If you are taking up the fight against racism, it's all in or none .
You can't jump up & down about one thing, then meekly go quiet when the same thing occurs with a senior official .
He's weak as piss .
I have no respect for him at all .
& it has nothing to do with skin colour .
It's because he dogged it when the fight got tough .

 

[SLRBRONCOS]

Yeah and he called the 13 year old "the face of racism" he is an attention seeking gronk. Said that he doesn't celebrate Australia day, then, accepts Australian of the year.

Such a tosser, I would love to boo him.

If we look at Inglis, someone who these days supports most things, well and with a lot of care. He gets booed, because he plays sport. Adam is going to retire and then demand sympathy/ attention.

Warning, picture contains cbomb.

https://scontent-hkg3-1.xx.fbcdn.ne...=640eb49ed8300396c0c009c23f2b1cdb&oe=5649CB2B

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

By the way, I'll never apologise for what the Storm had to do

Unless you are actually Brian Waldron, you can't apologise because you aren't responsible.

It's foolish, childish, selfish and short sighted in the extreme to condone it though.

 

[Canard]

Why are people stating that the McGuire incident wasn't responded to by Goodes?

Is it because you guys missed it?

He publicly condemned the dill and openly stated that his friendship with him is over.

GI and Inglis making this public stand is a great advertisement for League.

 

[DiegoNT]

I have no respect for him at all .
You may think that was an amazing moment ,fair enough .
It probably could have been handled better,seeing as it was an uneducated 13 yr old bogan .

My issue with Goodes is he pointed out a 13 yr old on TV ,a big deal was made of him being called an "APE".

Yet a few days later when on radio a high powered high ranking Aflol boss made a joke about King Kong/ Goodes ,then suddenly the fight against Racism wasn't important anymore .
He dogged it.
He was lauded for his stand against racism ,got Aust of the yr ,yet when it came to the AFL he chose to not rock the boat, not damage the"Image" anymore.

If you are taking up the fight against racism, it's all in or none .
You can't jump up & down about one thing, then meekly go quiet when the same thing occurs with a senior official .
He's weak as piss .
I have no respect for him at all .
& it has nothing to do with skin colour .
It's because he dogged it when the fight got tough .

The two incidents were completely different
The incident with the girl was in your face racism, it was happening to goodes in that moment and needed an instant action from goodes
The Maguire incident happened on a Melbourne radio ( I doubt goodes listened to it live). What was Goodes meant to do, get in a plane and get Maguire evicted from the radio station?
In both cases Goodes helped educate both offenders on why what they said was offensive and why it should never happen again and in both occasions he helped resolve the situation ( far from carrying on with it as his detractors continue to shout)

Oh and Goodes did speak out against Maguire ( one of the most powerful people in Australian media)

http://m.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news...ith-eddie-mcguire-is-over-20140505-zr4tm.html

but that doesn't fit the narrative that Goodes only picks on little girls