Players refusing to sing the National anthem in protest

[Canard]

Lol You are from the most racist state in Australia

Despite what you believe, I'm not some private school toff from the eastern suburbs like you are

 

[Valheru]

Despite what you believe, I'm not some private school toff from the eastern suburbs like you are

As I said, you are from the most racist state in Australia

 

[Babyface O'reilly]

Too ethnic for a Roosters fan, what a shock....

Not that you could know but I do have an Italian background. Anyway I just think an anthem must speak to all people. Rock is a universal language.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

I would love to know your interpretation of my world view, & I’ll even offer an exchange - no rebuttal on my part. Have at it.

I'll field this one.

Nick is a failed amateur movie critic and virgin who brags about his imagined sexual exploits with native American girls in a futile attempt to appear cool.

He likes to think he's smarter than everyone else but is actually thick as two short planks.

He'll deny all this but at home in his lonely existence he'll be seething with rage.

 

[Mr Spock!]

It refers to the Australian nation as a whole, which is 118 years old.

So the white nation then?

Especially given the context when it was written before federation in 1879.

 

[Mr Angry]

Not sure why we play an Athem at this game, who is Australia playing?

Can Boyd Cordner boycott the indigenous jersey next year as is does not "represent him or his family?"

FTR do not care, don't sing it, sing it, just play footy.

 

[Mr Spock!]

Why do we have to mention one culture in our anthem over all the others? And why has it taken almost half a century for this issue to arise?

It mentions one ie white australia 'young and free' over another which wasn't.

And this issue has been going on for over 50 years.

Just most people don't give a rats what blacks think. Just so long as they shut up and entertain us.

 

[Canard]

As I said, you are from the most racist state in Australia

Not that you could know but I do have an Italian background. Anyway I just think an anthem must speak to all people. Rock is a universal language.

It's not your fault that you grew up rich and spoilt.

I don't blame you guys at all.

 

[Zadar]

Do the aboriginals have a form of national anthem of their own, and have they ever been denied the chance to have it performed?

Jessica Mauboy once sang the Australian national anthem in an indigenous version, which obviously doesn’t change the meaning of it, but just translates it, so that probably wouldn’t change the stance on it. But is that how the NZ anthem is performed, is it the same meaning just sung in both languages, or is it a different mean to the English part all together?

 

[Valheru]

It's not your fault that you grew up rich and spoilt.

I don't blame you guys at all.

Do you deny you are from the most racist state in Australia?

 

[AlwaysGreen]

The way channel nine fart arses around it will be about 1030 by the time they sing the national anthem and most people will be asleep anyway

 

[magpie4ever]

A simple search could find this for you:


That’s from Wikipedia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Australia_Fair

I'm not saying you, but fair dinkum lets get this right.

There are no clear racists words, phrases, paragraphs - but somehow there is an undertone of racism. That needs to be called out as bullshit.

Second, whilst no one can deny the horrific treatment of aboriginals over the years of white colonisation there was no one united aboriginal nation. There was something like two hundred different tribes, with different languages, diffrent societies etc.

This sounds like playing the victim card to me - and that means we can't move forward.

It is clearly crap, with Walker & Co not explaining why they believe it is racist - it just is.

The second line "for we are young and free" - clearly means the 6 British colonies becoming an independent federated country on 1st January 1901.

 

[magpie4ever]

Yes it could.

But that is only one person's opinion. I can't find any source that definitively proves what they mean.

Don't give little Canny, air - he/she/it is just a little troll that adds zero to any discussion.

 

[magpie4ever]

Someone like Book of Steeden is completely transparent and has a perspective that is quite easy to understand, as stupid and wrong as it is.

But please help me understand what point you're trying to make here. You're seeking some kind of definitive proof that the lyrics are racist? If the words of the anthem are so offensive to a section of the population that they're willing to speak up about and even boycott it, what is it exactly do you fear will happen if it's changed?

Another section of society will take offense to the new version - or the undertones within the anthem.

 

[magpie4ever]

I’m not an AC-DC fan but if ‘A long way to the top’ was the anthem, I reckon everyone would sing it. It’s the most Australian song I can think of plus it’s a foot tapper.

What about "working class man"?

 

[magpie4ever]

Do you think 'young and free' refers to the oldest culture on Earth?

f**k, new ageists. f**k, give me a break you whinging pissants.

 

[AJB1102]

What about "working class man"?

Won't speak to the wealthy or dole bludgers and might make people trying to get work feel bad.

 

[JamesRustle]

Off the top of my head I recall an indigenous singer in 2015 who refused to perform the anthem at the AFL Grand Final.

Her stance was against the afl referring to itself as the indigenous game and her wanting no association with that crap game and its racist fan base

 

[SBD82]

I'm not saying you, but fair dinkum lets get this right.

There are no clear racists words, phrases, paragraphs - but somehow there is an undertone of racism. That needs to be called out as bullshit.

Second, whilst no one can deny the horrific treatment of aboriginals over the years of white colonisation there was no one united aboriginal nation. There was something like two hundred different tribes, with different languages, diffrent societies etc.

This sounds like playing the victim card to me - and that means we can't move forward.

It is clearly crap, with Walker & Co not explaining why they believe it is racist - it just is.

The second line "for we are young and free" - clearly means the 6 British colonies becoming an independent federated country on 1st January 1901.

To be fair to walker, he didn’t explicitly say it was racist, he said that the anthem doesn’t represent him or his family.

 

[magpie4ever]

Won't speak to the wealthy or dole bludgers and might make people trying to get work feel bad.

Yep, it is gone - running low on possibilties; now.